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“When the Yankees cose in, his wits run in and got in the bsd between

the mattresses, I don‘t see why lt didn‘t kil]. her. I don‘t know how i~e stood it. larly died when the Ta~kees come in. He was already sick. ~ Th Yankees come in end said, . ‘Did you know you. are on the Yankee line?‘

	“He said, ‘No, by God, when did that happen?‘

“They said, ‘It happened tonight, G~.—D.~-.- you.‘

*And he turned right on over and done everything on hisseif and di.d.

He had a satin‘ cancer on his shoulder.


8chooling, Itc.

“My mother had so many childrsn that I didn‘t get to go to school ich.

8h. had ninetesn children, end I had to stay hcue and work to help take cars of‘ thea. I can‘t write at all.

*1 want to school in Alabama, ‘round on a colorsd man‘8 place—.«ifr.

Winters. That was near a little town called Port Mitchell and Silvsr Riw ihers they put the men in jail. I was a child. Mrs. ~ith, a whits w~n fron the North, was the second teacher that I had. The first was ~. Crolsr. My third teacher was a men n~nad Mr. Nelson. LU. of these was white. They wasn‘t colored teachers. Lttsr tba War, that was. I hav ths book I used when I went to school. Hers is the little Arithwetic I used.

Hers la the Bins Back 8p.ller. I have a Mc(~iffy‘s Primer toO. I didn‘t use that. I got that out of the trash basket at the white people‘s houas where I work. One day they throwed it out. That is ihat thsy use now, ain‘t it?

	“Hers is a book my husband give . He bought it for ~ because I told hiw I wanted a second reader. He said, ‘Well, I‘ll go up to the store and git you one.‘ Plantation store, you how. Es had that charged to his account.