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on de house, but all de time Solomon lived us tried to keep de* place lookin‘ a good deal lak it was de day us got married. ~

	“Atter ~olomon died, I sold oft most of de land to de railroad for de right of way 2or dat dere track what you sees out dere, and it sho‘ has raade plenty ofwuk for meto keep dat soot what dem engines is ~ll time a‘~spittin‘ out cleaned ofT my things in de house. It draps down through dem big holes overhead, and I can‘t git hold or no money to have de roof patched up.

	“Me and ~olonion, us had 11 chiliun, but dey is all daid out but three. One of niy boys is in I~altimore and another boy lives in Louisiana somewhar. ~1y gal, Delia, she staysover in de Newtown part of ~thens here • She would love to help he~ old Mammy, but my Delia‘s got ehillun of her own and she can‘t git nothin‘ to do ‘cept a little washin‘ for de white foikses, and she ain‘t able to pervide i~iat her oi~n household needs to eat. Dem boys of raine is done got so fur oft dey‘s done forgot all ‘boixt deir old I~arnmy.

	“When us fust got n~rried, Solomon wukked at Mr. Orr‘s cotton house, and he stayed dere a long time ‘fore he went to wuk for i~1r. Moss and Mr. Levy. All dem white folks was good to nie and. ~o1omon. I kept on wukkin‘ for de Dorseys ‘tu us had so iriany chillun I had to stay home and look atter ‘em. Solomon got sick and he laydere sufl‘erin‘ a long, long time, but Mr. Moss and Mr. Levy seed dat he didn‘t want for nothin‘. Even atter