FOLK STUPT, YLORIDA
		‘~&aatts	‘V	6
		Joaiphü~~ Anderson
		Taapa, florida
	.	October ZO, 193?
		Jules A. Frost


	“Well we didn‘t tael Uke playin~ no wore gansa, an ‘ver after dat you ooundn‘t git no niggahia to ~ pesa dat house alone atter dark. Dey say de place was hant.d, an if you look through de winder any dark night yu could see a n in dire epir~nin de plate.


	‘1i: akio &Udn‘t r~eier look in, cause I done seen i~re hanta aready th~n I ever wants to see agin. €~s nigät I was gem to a~ granïÀy~* thàUSø. It ~i 3es comm dark, an when I got to de eriek an start aeroeß on Lie f~~ot—1og, dSX‘O 011 d~ other end o‘ dat log a a nan wid his haid cut off an Layin pluat over on his shoulder. ~ look at me, kinda pitiful, an don‘t say a word~—but I closely never mUted to s~ee wkir~t kie gonna talk about • I pure flew back howe, I ~a so icairt I GoL~1dn‘t tell de folks what done happened till I set down en got at; breath.


	“Notber time, not so long ago, ~iem I live down in Gar~, X be walkin doima de railroad track soon in de atornin an for~ I knowed it, dore waa a ~hite meil wilkin long aide o‘ me. I j.s.~ thought it vers

somebody, but I wadn‘t aho, so I turn off at de fust street to git way from dere. De nez mawnia I be boin to ~rk at de saat time. It were kinda foi. gy an dark~ so I never seen na~ody till I might; nigh run mt o dia same ran, an dere ho goec ‚ baut half a at op ahead o ‚ me, h is two hands tee t in on hie be~4i ~d.


	‘~I ~s so alose up to him I ~ou1d see him plain as I see you.

kil }~ad fin~:ernai1s dat long, . all clean.d an poliskisd. H, ~as t~11, an had on a derby hat ‚ an stylia.b black c1otha~. ~then I walk slow he alow down, an ~tian I stop, he atop, never ouest looki~ reims. i~y