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	“when I got out to Arkansas I lIke lt better than any country I seed and I say ‚ Itm . stayin‘ here ~ ‚ I n»ant to go back i~ i married ai~1 djthi‘t get no money ahead for a long time. Then I had a family of 11 children. Tes‘ ‘fore I married I got to go to school four months‘ close to Cotton Plant, where I married.

	~hen I was young I sho could knock off de work. I curmnulated 80 acre s land in Lee County. I paid ~9O0 for it ‚ got in de~ and had let it fur ‘bout (~247.50) Two hundred forty.seven and a half dollars. All I ~ot outen it. I had a bad crop and had a little provision bil1~I made on tiras, man agreed to mn me on then took it ‚ bout all.

	“Then I still was a strong man an‘ we bought 40 acres 14 mile8 from Côtton Plant and I had it 2? years. Then lost it.

	“My second wife owned a house and garden at Wheatley half a mile or so from t own. We live over there ‚ Our children all gone • She say she cooked and washed and farmed for it. It cost ~l0O.OO.

	ni could do heap work if I could get it. Old man can‘t get ‘nuff regular work to cover my house or buy me a ~iit closes, The Government give s i~îe ~lO ~ 00 a month. That‘ s a help out but it ‘ t go fir high as Provisions is. Me an‘ the old woman both too feeble to do much hard work. I gets all the odd Jobs the white folks give me. Misses I ain‘t lazy, I jess gettin‘ old and not able to hold out to do much. Whut I could do tbe~r give it to the young fellows cause they do it in a hurry.

	“1 used to vote right sxp~a~‘t when they needed me to help out. I Voted for Hoover. Don‘t think lt right theway the men settin‘ round arid deir wives workin‘ fer livin‘ and votin‘. The women 0811 vote if they went to but I don‘ t think it right, Seems lack the cart in front ob de horse now,