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i~aui11y

	“I am the mother of fifteen ch11dren-~‘.‘teii girls arid five boya. That was enough for me ‚ I am willing to q~u1t off. My husband is dead. He‘ a been dead for thirty—five yeara.


Opiniona

	“I don‘t know what to say about these young people. Mine are pretty good. So, I‘m ‘fraid to say much about the others.

	“Lord ‚ I ‘ t know what e‘ 11 do if we don ‚ t ~et some rain.


Vocational Experiences

	“when I was able I washed and ironed, I didn‘t have to do nothin‘ till after my father and husband died. Then I washed and ironed and cooked till the white folks set me out. They said I was too old. That is one thing I hate s to think of. They had the privilege to say I couIdn ‚ t work; they ought to a seen that I ~ot somethin‘ to live on when I wasn‘t able to work no more.~







Interviewer‘ s Coi~unent

	You can‘ t ~et the whole story by reading the words In this interview, You have to hear the tones and the accents, and see the facial expressiona


: ~ bodily movements, and sense the sometimes almost occult influence; you ~ have to feel the utter lack of resentment that lies behind the words that

Sound veherj~ent when read. You marvel at the quick, smooth cover~up when Soflietiling is to be withheld, at the unexpected vigor of the mind when the bait is ~ttractjve enough to draw it out, and at the sweetness of the disposition,