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I don‘t know what was the matter with old man Jackson. He was head deacon

of the church. We only ataysd together a year or mors.

RI hays been single ever since 1923, jus‘ b.i~ing ‘round white folks and

trylii‘ to work for them and ~kin‘ them ~ve me so~thin‘ to eat. I ain‘t been tryin‘ to tin‘ no ~n. When I can‘t fin‘ no cookin‘ and washin‘ and ironin‘ to do, I used to farm. I ain‘t fa~ now, end ‚ course I can‘t git

no work to do to amount to nothin‘. They say I‘m too old to work.

ems Welfare helps ~. ~n‘t know i~iat I‘d do if it wasn‘t for thea.

I git scN~e co~nodities too, but I don‘t git any wood. So psople says they

pay house rent, ~it they never paid none of mina. I had to go to Mariasna

and git my application straight btore I could git any help. They charged

me half ~ a dollar to fix out the application. The Welfare wanted to ~ow how

I got the money to pay for the application if I didn‘t hays money to live on.

I had to git it, and I had to git the money to go to Mariezina, too. It I

hadn‘t, I never would have got no help.


Husband‘s Death

*1 told you my first husband got killsd. The aile run away with his

plow and throwed him a su~erset. His head was where his heels should have been, he said, and the zeile dra~ed him. His chest was crushed, and mashed.

His face was cut and dirtied. He lived nine days and a half after he was

hurt and couldn‘t sat one grain of rice. I nsvsr left his bedside ‘oept to cook a little broth for him. That ‚ a all he would eat--just a littis broth.

~Ke said to his friend, ‘See this littl• w~n of sins? I hats to leave

her. She‘s Just such a good little v~en. &e ain‘t got no ~siness in this world without a h~isband.