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	“Patroilera? Had to get a pass from your master to go over there. Oh yes, I know all about them. I have seed the Ku, Klux too. Yes ma‘am, I know all about them things.

	“I never been to school bit half a day. I went to work when I was eight years old and been workin‘ ever since.

	“~‘~y father died in slave times and my mother died the fourth year

after surrender.

	“After rreedom, I worked there bout the course of three or four years. Then I emigrated and come on to Mississippi. The most I done them tixne8 was farmin‘. Reckon I stayed in Mississippi five or six years.

	“The most work I done here in Arkansas is carpenter work. l‘in the first colored man ever contracted in Pine Bluff.

	“le i wasn‘t able to work, I don‘t think I‘d stay here long.

	“Used to drive the mule in the gin In slave times.

	“We didn‘t have a bit of expense on us. Our doctor bills was paid and had clothes give to us and. had plenty of something to eat.

	“Yes‘m, I used to vote but it‘s been for years since I voted. Voted rtepublican. I don‘t knov~ why the colored people is Republican. You askin‘ rae something now I don‘t know nothin‘ about, but I believe in votin‘ for the man goin‘ to do good-P-do the country good.

	“Oh, don‘t talk about the younger generatiow..—I jist can‘t accomplish ein, I sure can‘t. They ain‘t got the ‘regeniou~s‘ and gets-up about em they had in my time. They is more wiser, that‘s about all. The young race these days.-~-‘I don‘t know what‘s gwine coin. of em. If twasn‘t for we old fogies, don‘t know what they‘d do.

	“We am ‚ t never had that World liar yet told about in the Bible. Called this last war the V~or1d War but twasn‘t.