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de fun. lie sot up on top of de big pile of corn an‘ hysted

de song. ile woula. ~it ‘em started orf singin‘ soniethin‘ 1a~c,

‘Salue is a GOod Gal,‘ an‘ evvybod.y kept time shuckin‘ an‘ a sirigin‘ . De ~en‘ra1.icept singin‘ 1~aster an? 1~aster, an‘ shucks wuz jus‘ flyin‘.. When pa started passin‘ de jug !rouxi‘ dem Ni~er3 $110‘ xiufi begun to s1n~ loud an‘ rast au‘ you wu.z ‘b1i~ed ror to ‘low ~a11ie mus‘ be a U-ood ~a1, de v~ay de shucks wuz commt oft or daicorn so I~as‘. Dey kep‘ it up ttil de corn wuz all shucked, an‘ ma ho11ere~, ‘~3upper ready~‘ Den dey made tracks ±~or de kitchen, ant dey didn‘t stop eatin‘ an‘ drinkin‘ dat hot coffee iOfl~ as c~ey could swallow. Ain‘t nobody led ‘eni no better backbones, an‘ spareribs, turnip greens, ‘tato pies, an‘ sich lak dan my ma set out tor ‘ein. Old time v~ays lak dat is done gone ror gool now. Folkses ain‘t laic dey used to be. L)ey‘s all done ~ot ~reecty an? don‘t keer ‘bout dom‘ nothin.‘ ~or nobody else no moi‘e.

“Ma combed our hair wid a Jim Crow comb, or. cyard, as

soiiie rolkses called ‘em. J~ our hair wuz bad nappy she put sortie cotton in de comb to keep it irom j~u111fl‘ so oud, ‘cause it wuz avn~u1 nard to comb.
t~vvybody tried to raise plenty o1 gourds, ‘cause c~ey wuz

so iiandy to use I~r dippers den. Water wuz toted irom ~ae sprin~ an‘ kep‘ in pi~ins. Don‘t spec‘ you ebber did see a pi~‘~~in~ i)aDs a woocien bucket wid wire hoops ‘roun‘ it to keep it from