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241—Pet Franks, ix-Slave, Monroe County
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Mrs. Richard Koib
Rewrite, Pauline Loveless
Edited, Clara E. Stokes



PET FRANKS

Aberdeen ‚ Mississippi



	Uncle Pet, 92 year~old ex—slave, is the favorite of Ackers‘ Fishing Lodge which is situated 14 miles north of Aberdeen, Monroe County. He is low and stockily built. His ancestry is pure African. Scarcely topping five feet orte inch, he weighs about 150 pounds. Though he walks with the slightest limp, he is still very active and thinks nothing of cooking for the large groups who frequent the lodge. He has his own little garden and chickens which he tends with great care.


	“I knows all ‚ bout slav‘ ry an‘ de war • I was right dere ou de spot when it all happened. I wish to goodness I was back dere now, not in de war, but in de slav‘ry times. Niggers where I lived didn‘ have nothin‘ to worry ‘bout in dem days. Dey amt got no sense now—a-days . All dey b‘ lieves in now is drinkin‘ an~ carousin‘. Dey amt got no use for nothin‘ but a little corn likker an‘ a fight. I den% b‘ lieve in no such gwine—on ‚ no sir—ree. ‘ s de reason • I stays out here by myse‘f all de time. I don‘t want to have nothin‘ to do wid ‘em. I goes to town ‘bout once a mont‘ to git s‘ppliea, but ~ I • don‘ never fool ‚ roun‘ wid d em- Nigger. den. I gits ‚ long wid
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