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	~A alavs waa ~ippoed to pick a certain a~unt or cotton I have hoard. They I~ad teaks. 3~t ~ didn‘t pick cotton. Way back in Georgia that ain‘t no cotton country. Wheat, corn, potatoec, and thing. like that. ~t in Louiaiana and Miaaieaippi, thors waa plenty ot cotton. Arkanaaa waan‘t *tch of a cotton 8tat iteeif. It warn called a ‘Hooj,r‘ 2tat when I waa a boy.

That i8 a reference to the poor ihits ~n. Il. woe a ‘Hoojer‘ • He waan‘t

rich enough to oin no abyss aud th.y called hi~ a ‘Hoojer‘.

	“The ownoro wcmld hire th~ to take cars or ths ~ and as ovoreers and patei~ol.s. They was hired and paid a littl• .alar~ jus‘ like the police il now. If ~ didn‘t hays killing and iaard.rin‘, there *UIdn‘t be no no.4 ror the police • The .coundr.l who rob. and killa fOlks ought to b. highly pro..cut•d.

	“I reckon I waa along eight or nias ysars old when tr.edc cs. )~y old•at brother waa twelve, and I wac next to hin. I ~at bars b.en eight ois nin•‘•~—or maybe tsn.

	“My occupation sines treedo~ ha. bean taming and doing a littis Job work~.~-anything I c~ld git. Work by the day for aechanio and ono thing and another. I know nothin‘ about no trade ‚ ceptin‘ ihat I have picked up.

Never took no~Ötttracta ‘ceptin‘ for ~i1ding a fence or aos~thin‘ ~inl1

like that. Mechanic‘a work I mappoee calls for licon.s.“