2.-	j3
the rooni and left but little space ror its occupant to iuove
about.	~.

	“I‘se jus‘ a mite tired,“ Cordelia stated, “‘cause I jus‘ got back from dc courthouse whar dein. ~‘e1fare ‘omans done girnrae a sack o‘ flour and some other bundles what I ain‘t opened up yit, but I knows dey‘s got somepin in ‘em to hoip me, ‘cause dein folks is sho‘ been :~ii~iďty good to me since ray rheuinatiz is been so bad I couldn‘t wuk enough to make a livin‘. De doctor, he say I got de blood presser. I don‘t rightly know jus‘ what dat is, but it looks lak somepin‘s a~ pressin‘ right down in my haid ‘tu i feels right foolish, so I reckon he‘s right ‘bout it a~bein de birod presser. When I gits down on my knees it takes e long time for me to git straight up on my ±‘eet again. De Lord, He‘s done been wid ~e all dese yesrs, and old Uordelia‘s~oin‘ to keep right on kneelin‘ ‘fore Hir:i and praisin‘ ±irn often ‘tu lie ‘eides de time has come for her to go home to heben.

	“I was borned. on ~vi~rse ~ndrew ~ackson‘s plantation down in ‘Conee (Oconee) Count~y, twixt here and 1ij~h shoals. ~arse kndy, he owned ray iviemmy, and she was named Lrn‘lyJackson. Bob Lovve WaS rr~y Daddy, and he b‘Ionged to Marse Ike Lowe. The Lowe plantation was nigh whar Marse Andy‘s was, down dar in ‘Conee County. ‘Cause neither one of deir marsters wouldn‘t sell one of ‘em to de other marster, i~iamniy had to stay on de Jackson plantatien and Daddy was kept right on wu~in‘ on de Lowe place atter dey