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	„~‚ said evexy now~ and then tee soenebody going back to that ~an tried

to got rid of thś~, They traveled by niglxt arxi beg along from black folks, In da~ti~$ they would stay in the woods so the pettyrollera wouldn‘t run up on the~n. The pettyrollers would ~whoop ‘eir~ if they eatoli ‘emt.

“Ma told abotrt~ one day the Yankees o~e and made the white wciaeii oo~

~	help the nigger women cook up a big dinner. Ma was soared so bad she

~	~ű~ld~‘t see notiiing she wanted, She said there was no talking. They was

t too ~oarod to say a word. They sot the table and never a one of th~i told.

t em it was ready.

“She said bisouits so scarce after the War they took ‘em ‘round in

I their pockets to nibble on they taste so good,

	“I was eighteen years old when pa and ma took the notion to oorie otrb

hero, All of us coima but one t~ister had r~.rried, and pa and one brother had a little difference, Pa had children ~. dicIn‘t have. They wezxt together ~a~î after slavery, We got tranaporbation to Maaphis by train and took a steamboat to Pillowim*unt. That close to Forrest City. Later on I oorie to Bisooe, They finally oorte too,

UI been pretty independeirb all v~j life till I getting so feeble, I

work a sight x~owo Itxa making boards to kiver my house out at the lot now,

~ I goh.~er get son~boäy to kiver it 800X1 as I get ~i~r boards ii~.do.

~	ttWe don‘ t get no WA aid ‚ oeptin‘ for t~o orphant babies we gob. They

~ are n~y wife‘ s sister‘ s little boys.

“Well sir-ree, folks could do if the young ones would. Yotui~ folks

don‘ t . have no consideration for the old wore~out pare@ts. They dance and th‘~Lk it bodac3~ous]y oixb on Saturday ebening and about till Sunday nighba ~i ~nay be wrong but I sees it thater way. lYhen we get old we get helpless.