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	Interviewer	Mra.BsrnjceBowdexi
	PeraOll Interviewed	Clarice Yackaon
	~	and Virginia, ~ Ä~k~ia~ Ago  82~






	“1 was six or seven when they begin goin‘ to the Civil War, We had a big old pasture opposite and I kxiow they would bring the soldiers there and drill ‘em.

	~‘Oh my God, don‘t talk about slavery. They kept u~s in. so you know we couldit ‚ t go around,

	“:~~t i~ they kept ‘em a little closer now, the world would be a better place. I‘m so glad I raised my children when they ~aS raisin‘ children. If I told ‚ em to do a thins, they did it ‚ cause I would always know what was best, I got here first you know.

	“People now‘days is just shortening their lives. The Lord is presain‘ us now tryin‘ to press us back. ~it thank God I‘m saved,

	“Did you ever see things like they is now?

	“1 looks at the young folks and. it see~.s like they is all in a hurry-.. looks like they is on the last round,

	“These here seabirds, (a music machine called seaburg—-.ed. ) la ruinin‘ the young rolka,

	“I feels my a~e now, but I thank the Lord I got a home and got a little inco~,

	“My children can‘t help me--~ath‘t got nothin‘ to help with but a little washin‘ • My daughter been b~stin‘ the suds for a livin‘ ‘bout thirty—two years now.