schools was se~t up for de Niggers. It was all auch a long tinte ago, and I never tuk lt In nohow.


“I don‘t recollect when I married George Huff or what I wore dat day. Didn‘t live wid him long nohow. I warn‘t goin‘ to live wid no man what sot ‘round and watched i~ie wuk. Mammy had done larnt rue how to wuk, and I didn‘t know nothin‘ else but to go ahead and wuk for a livin‘. I don‘t know whar c~eorge is. ff~e might be dead for all I know; if he ain‘t, he ought to be. I got three chillun. Two of ‘era is gals, Lizzie and Lila, and one is a boy. My oldest gal, she lives in Atlanta.“ She ignored the question as to where her other daughter lives. “My son wuks at de Georgian Hotel. But understand now, dem ain‘t George Huff‘s chillun. Deir pappy was my sweetheart what got into trouble and runned away. I ain‘t gwine to tell his name.

“~Honey, I Jus‘ tell you de truth; de reason why I jined de church was ‘cause I was a wild gal, and dere warn‘t nothin‘ too mean for me to do for a long time. Mammy and my sisters kept on beggin‘ nie to change my way of livin‘, but I didn‘t ‘tu four years ago. I got sick ~nd thought I was gem‘ to die, and den I begged de good Lord to forgive me and promised Him if He would let megit well ‘nough to git out of dat bed, I would change and do good de rest of my life. When I was able to git up~ I dined de church. I didn‘t mean to burn in hell lak de preachers said I would. I thinks evvybody ought to jine de church and live right.


“Oh-h-b Lady, I sho‘ do thank you for dis here dime. I‘m gwine to buy me some meat wid it. I ain‘t had none dis week. My white folks is mighty good to me, but Niggers don‘t pay rae no mind.