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He looked at me a moment ‚ and then he said, ‘There you from?‘ I said ‚ ‚ I‘m from Georgia, but I carne on thi8 boat from Little Rock.‘ He put hie arm around my shoulder and said, ~ Come on upstairs.‘ We had two or three drinks upstairs, and he said, ‘You and your pardner are the only two men I have that js worth a dam.‘ Then he said, ‚ But you are right ; you have a name, and you have a right to be called by it.‘ And from thon on, he quit eallin‘ us out of our names.

	“But I only stayed on the boat six months, It wasn‘t because of the

captain. Them niggera was bad. They gambled all the time, and I gambled

with them. ~it they wouldn‘t stop at that. They would argue and fight and cut and shoot, A man would shoot a man down, and then kick him oft into the rivers Then when there was roll call, nobody would know what became 0fb him. I didn‘ t like that • I knew that I was goin‘ to kill somebody if I stayed on that boat ‘cause I didn‘t Intend for nobody to kill me. So I stopped4

	“After that, I went back to the man that I worked for the month for and stayed with. him till I married. I took care or the stock. I was only raarried once, My wife died the fourteenth of October. We had three children, and i have one daughter living,

	“I have voted often, I never had no trouble, I am a colored man and I ain‘t ~ot nothin‘ but my character, but I take care of that. I let them know I am in Arkansas, I ain‘t been out of Arkansas but to Memphis and ViCk~u.. bure, and I took them trips on the boat I was working on, I was a good man then.

	nI can‘t say nothing about these wild4ieaded youn€ people, They ain‘t E~Ot flO sense. Take God to handle them,