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Why, jus‘ listen to dis~ 7ihen i~r. ~~~eaver Bridges told nie his another had done died, he axed rae did I want to ~o to the funeral and he said he was soin‘ to take nie to de church and graveyard too, and sho‘ ‘nough dey did corne and ~it nie and carry me. tlong. I was glad dey had so iiiany pretty flowers at Mrs. Bridges‘ funeral ‘cause I loved her so much. She was a raightysweet, good, kind ‘oman.

	t, ~j_l ray folks is dead now ‘cept me and my chillun, ~rchie, Lila, and Lizzie. All three of ‘em is done married now. Arche, he‘s got a house full of chiliun. lie works up yonder at de Georgian Hotel. I loves to stay in a little hut oIT to myself ‘cause I can tell good as anybody when my chillun and in-laws begins to look cross—eyed at me so I jUs‘ stays out ot deir way.

	t? I‘ni still able to go to church and back by myself

pretty reg‘lar. ‘Bout four years ago I jined ifull‘s Baptist

Church. Lak to a got lOst didn‘t I? 1L‘ I had stayed out a little

1on~er it would have been too late, and I sho‘ don‘t want to be

1 o s t .