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~ozen children. But I have quit doing dat husband; he always liked to have children none of our own.

	“Tffhen lily first husband died he did. not owe fifteencents. He just would not go in debt to nobody. He attended de Masonic lodge. After he died I wentto work. I bought wood, washed, ironed, and cooked. I have madeas high as ~15 a week and keep. I took care of a man‘s chudren after him and his wife separated~ We have had two b.ouse~ burn down right here. One of our houses was a little too close to Saline Creek and it was condemned and we tore it down and built de one we have now, thirteen years ago. Harry Newberry has a mill and. he give us de lumber to build dis house.

	“We have a lot in de colored graveyard. I have no insurance but Mr. Allen has some kind of insurance1 so if he gets hurttraveling he will get something. We is getting, together, ~25 in pensions a month and we is living pretty well right now. Some months we spend from soy-. en to eight dollars on food. ilmost everything is cash for us. I been going barefoot about ten years. I come mighty near going barefoot in de winter time. Vie been getting a pension about two years and we was on relief for two or three years before dat. Our biggest debt is a do~rLor bill of about ß60.
now. I now has my second around but we ain‘t had.