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	It v~as awful hard. going sifter the war.	But I ~ot

rae a place -~--~had to share-~crop for a year or tv~o. ~ut i ~orked hard. and saved all I could. Pretty soon. I had nie enou~Ii that I could rent. I a1v~ays raised the usual things.-..~cotton and oorn and potatoes and a little truck and that sort of :hin~-~-‘c1v~iays raised enou~1i to eat for us and the stock-~-~

and then. some cotton for a cash crop.
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	My first vvife, v:ell it vvas kind of funny	I wasn‘t

more than 19. ~he had 11 children. some of them was older than I was. No ma‘ar~i it wasn‘t so hard on ~e. They was all old enough to take care of themselves. I lived with that ~oman for 17 years. Ther~ she died.

	~	been married five times. Three of xay children are living. One‘s here~- j-that‘s Dave. Then there‘s one. in Texarkana and there‘s one in Kansas Oitya Two o~ my children‘s dead. The youngest died. just about last year. All my wives are dead0 . ~

	\“~i,xaost every day I cones up to sit here and watch the children, It does nie good to see ‘em Makes nie feel good all OhJ:r to think about all the fine chance they has to get a good educ&tion. ~SOflfl7~ you hear me ?~ You pay attention toot, sonny. itXIl watching you~ ~you and all the oth3r little boys. You mind. me. You learn all you can. You ought to be so tha~kfu1 you a1lov~i e d to 1 earn that you w ork hard • You mind. me ‚ sonny ~ When you‘re grown up, you‘ll know what I‘m talking about«--~and .know

I‘ift:	right, Run along ‚ ~onny. No use hangiiig around the school
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yard too 1ong.*‘~	.