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I stayed with them till I was 19 year. old. . •Ot co~ree they got a].1 the money I made. I married when I wa8 20, atIll living in Georgia. We tried to farm on shame. ‘L ~ fr~ I~rk~saa cerne there, gt— ting up a colony of colored to go to Ark~sas to tarm~ Told big tales of tine land. with nobody to work it, Not h~1f as many Negroes•

in ALrkansa8 as in Georgia. Me arid my wits joined up to go.

‚I Well ‚ ma‘ am, :t didn‘ t get enough education to be what you oeil

a educated mau. My tether paid for a six mouths night course 1~or me after peace~ I learned to read and write and figure a little.

I have used my tablespoon tufl of brains ever since, always adding to that start. ‘I learned everything I could from the many white friends I have had. Any way ‚ misa ‚ I have known enough to make a good living all these years.

	~~‘Now I‘ll get on With the story. Pirat work I got in Arkansas was working on a farm; me and her bots‘; is always tried to stay together. le could not make anything on the Garner term, and it was mighty unhealthy down in Yourche bottoms. I carried her back to Little Rock and I got work as house men in the Bunch hc~e~ Prom there I went to the ho~ of Aidley L J~ones and stayed there 28 years. That was the beginning of my catering~ I just naturally took to cooking and serving. Ihite tolks was still used to having colored wait on them arid they liked my style. Mr. Zones was so kind.

He told his friends about how I could plan big dinners and. banquets; then cook and serve them. Bight soon I was handling most of‘ the big swell weddings for the society folks. Child, if I could call off the fl8Ifle~ o~ the folks i: have served, it would be mighty near everybody