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‘Well, Sir, Ijus‘ thought 1f you didn‘t have enough tor all of ‘em, I could take LIda.‘ I felt myself goin‘ down. 11e started

laughin‘ fit to kill. ‘Bcy,‘ he says, tIS you tryin‘ to ax for Lida? If so, I don‘t keer ‘cause she‘s got to git married sometime.‘ I Was so happy I left him right den and. run back to tell Lida dat he said it was all right.

	~ %	“Us didn‘t have no big weddiri‘. Lida had on a new calico dress and I wore new jeans pants. Marster heared us was gittin‘ married dat day and he sont his new buggy wid a message for üs to corne right dar to hirn. I told i4da us better go, so us got in da~ buggy and driv Ott, ~xid de rest of de folkses followed in de wagOn. Márster met us in front of old Salem Church. He had de churc~. open~and Preacher ~rohn Gibson waitin? dar to riarry us. Us warn.‘~t ‘spectin‘ no church weddin‘, but Marster said dat Neal had to git married right. 11e never did forgit his Niggers. Lida she‘s done been daid a long time, and I‘se‘merried again, but dat warr~‘t ~ ~ ~:~‚

By now, Neal was evidently tired‘ b~ ~ bu*~ as the

interviewer prepared to leave, Neal ~ ~ soniepin to tell my old ‘oman vthen she gits home. $1~e don‘t.Iak to

leave me here by myself. I wish ~ere was somebody o~ me ~o ~
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to evvyday, for I‘se had sich a good time today. I:dOflS~C~ ~ ~

it‘s gwine to be long ‘fore old Neal goes to be wid. demi done been tellin‘ you ‘bout, so don‘twait too long to come ~ack~~ see me 8gain.“ .