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Dey has to much studying up here (pointing to his head and makin~ motions like wheels going round.) When Ps his age I‘s work-. ing at anything I could find. I worked on a farm and on a steaniboat ‚ I carried cross ties-.-.just anything where I could earn :fl3Ofley. ~nd I saved money, too. ~!hen we bought dis house I had $2,400

saved up. And men was stronger in dem days and had. better health.

	“Dese young folks want. too easy living. And dey ain‘t brung up to show respect to old folks like we is. If I goes down de walk and a bunch young folks is coming a1on~, I knows I‘ s got to step out of de way~~~~‘cause dey won‘t give any. And if some lit-. tie ones. on roller skates is coming down de sidewalk-.-.you better git off or dey‘il run right into you.

	“I was teilin‘ you ‘bout Miss Katie coming to see me, wasn‘t r? Weil just last week her boy come to see me. He‘s maybe 25 or 30 year old. Somebody told him ‘bout me and he come here and he sit right dar on de porch fer a hour and talk with me. He was

a fine young man, he was.“
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