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Only tune he ever was drux,k. He ~ot d~own and nearly froze to death. The white folks hoard he waa somewhere down. They went and got him one Sunday morning in a two-~horse wagon. Ee was nearly dead. That was hiB first and last spree.

	“Pa said he nursed three o~ his young niistres& babieB, Alfred, Pc~n, andKenneth.

	“After freedom pa went to Texas with Alfred Walker. He owned a ranch out on the desert arid raised Texas ponies and big horn cows. They sent a carload o~ young cattle to St. Louis and pa stopped back in Mississippi and married ma. She was a Walker too, Libbie Walker. There was fourteen of us children. They nearly all went to Louisiana to work in the timber, I come to Olarendon. I been married three times. My last wire left me and took my onliest child, Only child I ever had. They was at Hot Springs last aecot~t

I had of them. She was cooking for a woman over there • My ~ir1 is up ‚ bout grown now. She come to Clarendon to see nie three years ago. I sent for her but she wouldntt stay. She writes to me, but I have to get somebody to write for me and. somebody to read her letters. I can read. print real good. I never went to school a day in my whole life • We had. to work early and late when I come up.

	UI farmed, sa~mil1ed, worked in the timber. I do public work, haul ~iood, cut wood, and work in the field by day labor.

	“I votes a Republican ticket. I haven‘t voted since Mr. Taft run, I don‘t have no way to keep up with elections now. Folks used to talk niore,

now they keeps quiet,

	“I never heard pa say how he corne to know about freedom. Ma said she ~~as refugeed to Texas end when they brung thorn. back, Master Will Walker blet them at the creek on his place and he said ‚ ‚ You all are free now,