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Talitha:	~I don‘t know how he‘d go leaasn w totsi him. Why, hi got ths rheumat1au~ so bad h. can‘t hardly git ~ in thf dayUms much less at night. Why, th. other day h. waa out in the field follerin‘ the boy that wac plowin‘ up the potatoee and we was goin‘ on pickin‘ them up. Pirat thing I know I hear aomethin‘ behind i~ go ‘plop‘ and I looked roun and there lay Tack Jea stretched out, Fell down over hie own feet. So ~3hat would b.. do out nighta? And you aeea that knot on hia ankle. Hit was broke when he was a boy an‘ hit Stil]. gives him trouble when his rhsuxnati~ starts up.R


J~ack:	~Tou say how did I do it? I was jumpin‘. A bunch ot us boys was jwnpin‘ ‘cross a ditch jas to see how far ~ could jump. I was a young chap ‘bout sevnteen or eighteen thn. I was dom‘ purty well with ~y jumpin‘ whin I made a miajump en‘ jumped crooked and hit my an)].. on a big old iron rock. My bit hit hurt bad, I didn‘ do no mors jumpin‘ that day. mi next day I was down in thi woods getting a load of lider. Had pit on a few pieces on ths wagon when I started to turn aroun and down I went. I je8 lay there end hollered till someone ec~e an‘ got ~. That was in the winter just before Christmas and I didn‘t gst out no mors till in thi spring. The woods looked right pirty to ~ when I got out. Thi leaves was great big. And that ain‘t all, I ain‘t jumped no more aines. ‘8idss that I ain‘t nsver been sick to ‘mount to anything. Had the whooping cough at th. same time that J~oe and To~ Snyder had hit. Still got ~y natch•]. teeth, lost four up here and got o~e that bothers ~ ac~, ‘sides that I have ‘em all. Tas euh, that the achoolkouss ‘cross the road thirst

N.	has pi‘sachin‘ there scm~tii~s too. Dosa Lb preach then? Es, he, hei saMt i~ h. do. Did I evir tell you ‚ bout th tin Lb was preaching