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Bavelinga

	“I aew with rav‘lin‘a. Here ja some rav‘lin‘a I use. I pu].1 that out of tobacco sacks, flour sacks, anything, when I don‘t have the mon.y to buy a epoOl of thread, I aew right on just as good. with the rav‘lin‘a aa if it was thr•ad. Tobacco sacka make the beat rav‘lin‘a. I got two baga full of tobaoco sacks that I ain‘t unraveled yet. There is a ma~ dom town who Baves them for ~. When a z~n pulls out a sack he says, ‘Save that sack for ~s, I got an old colored lady that makes thread out of tobacco aaeka.‘ These is what he has give me. (8he showed the interviewr a sack which had fully a gallon of littl• tobacco sacks in it--ed.)

	*They didn‘t use rav‘lin‘a in slave time. They spun the thread. Then

they balled it. Then they twisted it, and then they sew with it, They didn‘t use rav‘lin‘a then, but they used them right after the War.

	“My mama used to say, ‚ Ccn~ hers ‚ Lugenia. ‚ She and ~ would work together, She wanted me to reel for her, Ain‘t you never seen these reels? They turn like a spinning-wheel, ~it it is made indifferent. Toe turn till the thing pops, then you tie it; then it‘s read7 to go to ths loc~. It is in hanks after it leaves the roe]. and it is pretty, too.


Present Condition

	“I used to live in a four-ro~ houas. They charged me asven dollars and a half a month for it. They fixed it all up and then they wanted to charge ten dollars, and it wouldn‘ t have been long before they went up to fifteen. So I moved. This place ain‘t so much. I pays five dollars and a halt for it. When it raina, I have to go outside to keep trom gittin‘ too ist. Bitt I cut down the weeds all around the plac.. I planted acme flow•ra in the front yard, and some vegetables in the back. That all h.lpa m out.