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(‘stable for ~7 .00 per month • Of this amount I sent ~3 . 50 home to my

I parents. The next year I went oit a farm with Mr. fohn Wall tor $8.00

~ per month. The next year I had a better offer with Mr. R.N• Lamar

~ to ~°arxa and act as general handy nian for $9.00 per month. I saved my

~ money and worked hard ‚ and I would lend. Mr . Lamar my yearly income at ~: Interest • Li 1882 ‚ Mr • Lamar negotiated a trade with Mr • Samuel Evaiis ~ for this piece of property right here. When they totrnd out a negro wanted to buy the property, there was more or less argument, but I sat right still and let Mr. Lamar handle the trade for me. I have owned other property, but I have sold everything else I had. ~ health failed, and I just settled down here to be quiet. I owned property on Chestnut Street in Atlanta and in Putnam County also. I have been saving all my life, everything1~ s1~~1 looking about me, I concluded he was indeed a thrifty person. ~eh ~i accumulation of every con~ ceivable thing ( junk) that had been discarded by others ‚ Uncle Dave had brought hozue and carefully and neatly stored it away for subsequent use.

	“Uncle Dave tel]. me something about your educat1on~ ~“Well, when I was a boy back in Putnam County I went to night school. For a long time I was the only p~gro in the class. My foundation work I got under a Mr. Whitfield, Mr. J‘ohn Nix, and we had a Yankee teacher, Miss Claudia Young. In September 1885 1 went to Atlanta and~ entered the ac~m1o department of what is now Morehouse College. I was graduated in demies in 1889 as valedictorian of the class- my subject being “We Are Coming „ ‚ whi oh was a theme on the progress of the ~gro race • In 1891 I was grathiated from the theological department asvaledictorian, my Subject then being “Why Do Nations Die“.

	t‘ Miss, you a8klfle if I am superstitious. I show em. When I hear these owls at night I just get up and get me some salt and a news-