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~	WI went to school fou; y.are ad then I got too old. I 1.arned a whole lot. Iaarn.d to rsad and sp.il and figger. I done pretty good.

I learned how to add and nniltiply sud how to cancel and how to work square root.

“What I‘ve bien dom‘ all my lif• is termin‘ dowa at Yairti.ld ou the

Murphy place.

VotVi Good LOrd3 E doue ~oxe votin‘ • Toted for aU the Pr.sid.*ts.

Yanke•s wo~gdn‘t let us vot ~mocrat, had to vote Republican. Th.y‘d be there č~1tatin‘. ~ SteAd right there and tel]. ~ the oneŕ to vote fo~ I done q~iit votin‘. I voted for Goolidgo — we called him ř.U..~ ~ that‘s the last votin‘ I did. Oias of my friends, Levi ftrntsr, he was a coloxed magl•3trate down at Pairfield.

“Xii KluX? What yeti telkin‘ about? ~i Klux ‘oo~ to our 1touas~ M~

.	sister Ellents husband wut to war on the Yankee aide duz‘ixi‘ the iar ~ on the Republican side and fought the ~iuocratsó

“After the war the ~t flux c~ sud got the colored tOlka ~*t

fought and killed sa. I saw em ki].~P a ůigg~r right off his autO. Pill oft on hie sack of corn end the old ~l,kep‘ on goin‘.

“Ku Klux used to wear. big old long robe with ~nches of cottou se~d

ail over it. I meiiber one time ws ‘as h*Ytfl‘ CIIXU‘Oh end a L~ Klux w~ bid up in the scaffold. The preacher ~s readin‘ the Bible end tel]i~n‘ the tolka thexe was a man sent frCN God and ear an e~el be hexe directly.

Just then the ~i Klux fell down end the niggers all thought ‘Was the angel and they got up and f].V. S

~Ku Klux used to came to the Church well e*d ask for a drink and say,

‘I ain‘t had a bit of watsr ai~ce E faight the battle of ~iloh.‘