HUd~1ns
Clara Walker
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‘Dis is a doctor case, Dis ain‘t no case for a midwife. You git a doctor.‘ ~i‘ dey‘d have to get oné. i‘d Jes‘ stant before de lookin‘ glass, SlLt I wouldn‘t budge. Dey couldn‘t make me.

	I made a lot of money for o1~ miss. But she was good to nie. 811e give me lots of good clothes. Those clothes an fly mother~s clothes burned up in de fire I had a few years ago right on dis farm. Lawsey I hated loosin‘ dose clothes I had ‘when I was a ~ir1 more dan anythir~g I lost./‘ ~1ArL‘ I didn‘t have to work in de fields. in between times I cooked an‘ I would jump in de loom. Yes, ma‘am I could weave good. Did. my yards every day. I weave cloth for &resses--~fime dresses you would use thread as thin as dat you sews wid today ~ I weaves cloth for underclothes, an~ fo handkerchiefs an for towels. Den I weaves flits sud lice. Whatts dat---well yc~u see it was kind corse cIpth de used for clothes like overalls. It was sort of speckeldy all over--~datts why d~,called it nits and lice.

	Law, I used to be good once, but after I got all burned up I wasn~t good for so much. It happened dis way. A salt lick was on a nearby plantation. Ever body who wanted salt, dey had to send a hand to help make ‘it. I went over one ~ -‘j-an workin~ around I stepped on a live coal. I move quick an‘ I fall plum over into a salt vat. Before dey got iae out I was pretty near ruined.