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She lNanted me to come back, but ~v hand oouldntt stand it, I oooked for Governor Rose‘ s wife. Tha~b‘ s been a 1oi~ time baok. I wouldntt ~ nobody to come in lhe kitchen when I was working. I would say, Ty~~ goin‘ to oœ~ie ±n~ this kitchen, I ‚ U have bo gib out.‘ The Governor was awful good to me. They say he kicked the rest of th~u oub. I scalded his lifrIle grand— son onoe, I picked up the tee.1ce~Ue. Didn‘t know i~b had water In lt and it slipped and splazhed water over the little boy‘ s hand. If‘ n it had been hot as it ought to have been, it would have burnt him bad. He went otr~ of that kitchen hollerin‘. The Governor didn‘t say nothin‘ ‘oep4, ‘Ella, please don‘ t do it again.‘ I said, t I guess ‘ li teach hint to stay out o f that kitohen avrt I was bos s of that kitohen when I worked there.

“We took the look off the door once so the Governor oouldnt t git in

it.

‘II dressed up and come out once and so~tebod~r called the Governor and

said, t Look at your cook.‘ And he said, ‘That ain‘t ii~r oook.t That was Governor Rector. I Went in and put on n~r rags and come in the kitchen to cook and he said, tThat is ii~r t He sure wanted me to keep on cookin‘ for hin, but I just got sick and oou].dn‘ t stay.

	Ill	hurb i~ hand over three years ago. ~r arm swelled and folks rubbed it and got all the swellin~ down in one place in n~r hand. They told me to put fat meat on it. I put it on and the neat hure so I had to take it off. Then the~r said put the white of an egg on it, I did that too and it was a little betters Then they rubbed the place until it busted. But it never did cure up. I poisoned it by goin‘ out pullirzg up greens in the garden. They tell me I got dew poisoning.

“I dontt git no help froen the Welfare or froia the Government, ~r
husband works on the rolief sc~netines •	s on the relief now.