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She said ou the way they pas8ed sc~ ahildmn. Th.~ iias playin«. A little white boy was up in a perelon tree settin‘ on a 11mb eating persi~one. He was so pretty and clean. Grandma says, ‘You think you is sctne ~~pkiu, don ‚ t you, honey child. ‚ Be says, ‘Scmie pumpkin ana ~ ‚ ei~non too.‘ Grandma was a house girl. She got to keep her baby and brought him. He waa ~:;~ father. Uncle ~as born later. Then they wae treed. Grandma lived to be ainety-flve ysara old. lira, I~lphy looly and Mrs. Shelton was her young iii.tstresses. They kept her till she died, They kept her well.

“Qrandrna told us about rreedctn. ~ie wa~ hired out to the Browna to

niaks sausage and dry out lard. l‘ive gina was in. the field ~burnin~ brtiah, The y was white girla-.4fra. Brown‘ s girls • They cane to the house and said some Blue Coats ecme by and said, ‘You tree‘ They told thetii back, ‘That‘s no news ‚ we was born tree . ~ ~ said that night she melted pewter end made dots on her best dress. It ~aa shiny~ She wore it hcme next day

‚ cause she was tree ‚ aiid she DeTer left from about her own ~iite folks till she died and left them.

	‘~?iines seem very good on black folks till hard cold winter and spring cofl~, then times is mighty, mighty bad. It Is so hard to keep warm tires and eno~ii to eat, Times have been good. Black toiks ix~ the youi~g ~nera~ ~ ion need more heart training and less book learning. Tii~s is so tait the yo~n~ set is too greedy. They is wasteful too. Scrnie Is hard workers and tries to live right,

	“I wash and irons and keep a o~nan‘ ~ little chile so she can work. I owns ~y h~.“