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I oh.opped ootton and oorn. I used to ‘bote the leadin‘ i‘aw~ Me and ii~r ocInpaw walked out ahead. I was young then, btt~ 3I~T ocmpsx~r helped me piok that cotton That nigger could piok cobton ~ toot None of the ren‘ of thœi could pick a;ythi13~ foi‘ looking at Mm.

	.	“Mother stayed at Churchill‘ c till plumb after the war. I~r father died before the war we.s overt They paid. i~j mother some money and said she would g&; the balances That mean.s there was more to corne, doesntt it? But they didn~t no more come. They all died and none of lhœi gol the balanoe, I ain‘t never got nothin‘ either. I gave n~y papere to .Ada~is and Singfield. I

give th~ii to Adams; Adams is a Negro that one-legged Wash Jordan sezxb to me.

They all say hot ~ a big orook, but I didn‘t know it. Adams kepb coming to r~r Jiouse wrtil he got xi~r papers and then when he got the papers he didn‘t come no more.

“Aftex‘ Adams got the papers, he carried me down to LaVer S ingfield‘ a.

He said I had to be sworn in and it wotild cost me one dollar. Singfield

•~wote down every ohildt s nanie and eveiyboc1y‘ a age. When he got through writing, he said that was all and ne and Pearl n~de up one dollar between us and give it to him. And then we o~no on away. We 1ef~b Mr. Adams and 1~. 3thgfield in Six~gfield‘s office and we leiM the papers there in the offioe with thœ~. ThW didn‘t give me no reoeipb for the papers and the~r didn‘t give xae no receipt for the dollar. Singfield‘s wife has been to see me several times to sell me scmething. She wanted to git me to buy a grave, but she ain‘t never said nothin‘ about those papers. You think she doesn‘t lmow ‘bout tœi? I have seen Adams once down to Jim Perry‘ s ftineral on Arch Street. I asked him about n~r papers and he said the Govermnenb hadn‘t anzvrered him. He said, tWho is you?I I said, ‘This is Mrs. Johnson.t he went on out. He told me when he got a answer, it Will OO~O Z‘i~,ht tO
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