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a-ruiflln‘ dis young genraya~un (generation). Dey don‘t take no keer of delrseits.. ~ My.own g?afldchi1iUfl.iS~deSerne way. • ..

	*1 left Mr. McGinty an~ went to wuk fôr Mr. Biôoatield In de mill. Mr.~ 311] Dootaon was our boss, and he was ~ho‘ a good man . Deni was good times . I wuked Inside de mill and ‚ round de yard too, and sometimes dey sont me to ride de boat Wid de cotton or sometimes wid oloth, whatever dey was sendint. Deré waa two mills den . One . was down below de bridge on Ocon es St reet ‚ and de old check factory was t‘other zide of de bridge on Broad Street. Dey used boats to carry de cotton andde cloth from one mill to de other.
	‚ *~t1 say, can you ‘ I I eve it?	I wuked to r ~ a day
and us paid for our home here. Dey paid us oft wid tickets what u~
tuk to de commissary to git what US needed.		Dey kept jus‘ evvythlng

dat anyb ody o ould want down dar at de coap‘ ny ~tore • So us rai ae4 our ni ne ~ chi hun ‚ gi vs ‚ em plent y to eat and wear too and a good ro of• over deir haids, all on 68 a day and what ~ulie could make wikin‘ for de white folks. ~ ‘Course things warn‘t high-~priced lak dey is now, but de main dift‘unce Is dat fOlkS didn‘t have to have so many kinds of things to eat and wear den lak dey does now. Bers warn‘t nigh so many ways to throw money ‘way den.

	.	“Tiere warn‘t so iitany places to go; sus‘ church and church spreads, and E~undays, folks went buggy ridin‘. De young Nigger‘s, ‘specially dem what was ai.~eparkin‘, used to rent buggies and hossee