2.	48



	“Lord I don‘t know how many times I ever voted. I uaed to vote every time they had a~a election. I voted before I could read. The white man showed me how to vote and asked me who I wanted to vote for. Oh Lord, I was might near grown when I learned to read.

	“I been married just one time in my life and my wife‘s been dead thirteen years.

	ni tell you, Miss, I don‘t know hardly what to think of things now. Everyth1n~ so changeable I can‘t brine xiothin‘ to remembrance to hold it,

	“I didn‘t do nothin‘ when I was young 1~it just knock around with the white folks. 0h Lord, when I was young I delighted in partiee. Don‘t nothin ‚ 1 ike that worry me now. Don‘ t go to no parad~es or nothin ‚ . Don‘ t have that on ray brain like I did wh~zi I was young. I goes to church all the place I does go.

	NI ain‘t never had. no accident. Don‘t get in the way to have no accident cause I know the age I is if I injure the se bones there am‘ t anything more to me.

	“My mother had eight chiidrun and just my sister and me left, I can‘t do a whole day‘ s work to save my lite ~ I own this place and my si ster-.in~ law cives me a little somethin‘ to eat. I used to be on the bureau but they took me oft that.~