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tell 1117 mother. A girl I was raised up with went and told her though. . ~

	“After freedom I worked for old Judge Jones on the half systeiî~. He give me everthing.that was due me. When he was eighty years old, he called all his old tenants up and give ein a mule and twenty-five dollar8. He was pretty good to em after all.

	III went to free school in the sunimertime after the crops was

laid by. I can read and write pretty pood.
	UI came here to Jefferson County in ‘eighty-six and I put

in thirty-six years at the Cotton Belt Shops. When that strike came on they told us colored folks to quit and I never went back. I worked for em when she was a narrow gauge.

	~i worked in the Worth three years. I nightwatched all over St. Louis and L~adison, Illinois. I liked it fine up there — white folks is more familiar up there and seems like youcan get favors. if I don‘t get somethin‘ here, I‘m goin‘ back up there.

	tt~~ihen I got big enough I voted the Republican ticket and af-

ter they got this primary. I think the colored people ought to vote now cause they make ein pay taxes.

	“I‘ll tell you right now, the younger generation is goin‘ to the dogs. We‘ll never make a nation of em as long as they go out to these places at nights They ought to be a law passed. hen nine o‘clock comes they ought to be home in bed, but they is just gettin‘ started then.

	Tu belong to the Catholic Church. I think it‘s a pretty p~ood church. We have a white priest and I‘ll tell you one thing you can‘t get a divorce and marry again and stay in the Catholic Church, lt
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