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knowed I‘d be dead In dat time, so I signed up wid ‘em.

	‚	“L‘ year de men dat o ollec‘ nearly worrlt me t o death a-tryin‘ to git some money from me. I didn‘ have none, so dey say dey gwine a-take my home.

	“Now I hear tell o‘ dat barefoot Nig. er down at Colt~nbus callin‘ de president an‘ him bein‘ so good to ‘lin. So I ‘olded to write au‘ tell ‘im what a plight dis Nig~er was in. I dith~ say nothin *noxjous, but I jus‘ toi‘ him plain facts. He writ me right back an‘ pretty soon he sont a man down to see me. He say I needn‘ bother no more, dat dey won‘t take my house ‘way from me. A~i‘ please de LawdZ Dey amt nobody else been here a-~pesterin‘ me since.

	“Dat trian toi‘ me soon as de old age pension went th‘ough I‘d git thirty dollars a mont ‚ *stjd o‘ de four I‘ s a..gittin‘ now. Now won‘ t dat be grant ? I C ould live lak de whit e folks on dat much.

	t se had ‚ 1 Igion all my born days . ( I never learnt to read de Bible an‘ ‘terpet de Word ‘tU I was right smart size, but I mus‘ o‘ b‘lieved in de Lawd since ‘way back.) I‘se gwine a-go right ‘long an‘ keep a.-trustin‘ de good Lawd an‘ I knows ever‘thlng gwine a~come out all right.

	“‘Twixt de Lawd. an‘ de good white folks I know I‘s gwine always have somethin‘ t‘eat. President Roosevelt done ‘tended to de roor over my head.“


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