FOLXLOR~ SUB3ECTS
Naine of Interviewer -~ s. s. Taylor

Subject -~- Corn Shucking, Dance8. ~uiltin~s, ‘~edd1ngs among si*ves


	Ing time. Plenty of corn wae bro~ight in from the eribB and strowed along where everybody could get to lt freely. Then they wOUld all get corn and shuck lt until near time to quit. The corn shucking wa~ always at night, and only as much corn as they tkiou~ht would be shucked was brought from the cribs . 3~ust before they got through, they would begin to sing. Some of the eongs were pitiful and sad. I can‘t remember any of them, but I can remember that/ they were sad. One of them began like thiB:

“The speculator bought my wife and child.

And carried her clear away.N

	when they got through shucking, they would hunt up the bo8s. He would run away and bide just before • If they found him, two big men would take him up on their shoulders and carry him all around the grounds while they 8ang. My mother told me that they used to do lt that way in slave time.

Dane es

	They di(‘n‘t dance then like they do now all hugged up and indecent. in them days ‚ they danced what you call square dances. They don‘t do those dances now, they‘re too decent. There were eight on a Bet. I used to dance those myself.

--~u~ltinga

This information given by Eliza Washington ( ~gro woman Place of Residence ~ 1517 W. 17th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Occupatjo~ -~ Washing and Ironing ( When able ) Age - About 7‘?