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to let ~OU havó provi~ione, you k~ow ~ you WoUit~ etarve~ ~ No~ if y~ou can‘ t get work you ‚ bout atarve aut~ can‘t get no credit. Cropa been good last tew yeara and prices fair tt~r jt~ B~it ~ney won~t buy~ n~thln‘ now. ~verything 13 80 high• Meat is 80 hIgh. Working man have to eat meat.

If he don‘t he get weak.

	“The y9ung folks do work. They can‘ t save much rmi‘ ~ It they could do pablic work between times it be bette],, I had a hard~ tine in 3‘uly and Auguste I got six children, they grown and gone, My wife ja

72 years old. She am‘ t no ‚ count for work no more ‚ The Government give

me an‘ her ~lO a month between us two. Her name is Hannah Metcalf.

	“I wish I did know somethin‘ to tell you, lady, ‘bout the Civil War arid the slavery timee. I done frgot ‚ bout all I heard ‘ein teIkin‘. Then you see Hannah she might know ‘