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		II~ERVIE~ WITH BETTY BRO~NN
	.	       (~Ex-sLA~r~)


	“In de oie‘ days we live in Arkansaw, in Greei~Courity. My mammy~wuz MaryAnn Millan, an‘ we belong to ‘Massa‘ John Nutt, an‘ ‘Miss‘ Nancy.‘

	“Our white folks live in a big double house, wid e open hail between. It wuz

built of hewed log8 an‘ had a big po‘ch on de wee‘ side. De house stood on Cash~

rivuh, at the crossroads of three road8; one road go tuh Pocahontas, one tuh Jones— ~J1
.	4urg, an‘ one tuh Pie-Hatten, (Powhatan).

~	“Now whut fo‘ you wanna‘ know all dem things? Air ye tryin‘ to raise de daid? Some o‘ ~em, ah don‘. wanna see no mo‘ ‚ an‘ some o‘ ‘em ah wants to stay whar dey is.

~	Pore mammy ‚. Ah shore had one sweet muthuh ‚ an‘ ah want s huh to et sy at rest.

~	“De wuz jus!. us one family o‘ cullud folks on de pla3e. You see, ‘Miss‘ Nancy‘

~	hired us fum her fathuh, ‘01e Massa Hanover. Jes‘ mah mammy an‘ huh chillern. She had five, ‘fore de wer wuz ovuh1 Our daddj; he wuz an Irishman, name Millan, an‘ he

~	had de bigges‘ still in all ~4rkans~s. Yes‘m ‚ he had awbite wife, an‘ five chillern

~	at home, but mah mammy say he like huh an‘ she like him. You say ah don‘ look half • : white? Maybe I‘s fadin‘.

:~. “We live in a little oie‘ log house, it wuz so low a big feller had to~toop to git

~	in. Our folks WU8 mighty good tuh us, an‘ we stayed dar wid ‘uni after we‘s freed.

~	~ “Ah don‘ rightly know how old ah is, but de-~iest writ‘ it all down fo‘ me, when • ‚ ~ . ‘8 gittin‘ mah pension. Sho‘ ah‘s a Catholic. Is they anything else? Fo‘ fifteen

ah tended de Catholic church, swept an‘ dusted, an‘ cleaned, but ah‘s too oie‘ dat now, an‘ ah‘e po‘ly in mah back, cain‘t git ‘round‘like dat no mo‘ .

“We lived de ole‘-tirne way of livin‘, mammy done de cookin an‘ we had plenty good

:ings to eat. Mammy made all de clothes, apinnin‘ ‚ an‘ weavin‘ an‘ sewin‘ • Ah lamed Ç~

)	spin when ah wuz t~p little tuh reach de broach, an~ ah could hep her thread de loom.

mammy wuz a shoe-maker, she‘ d n~ke moccasins for all o‘ Us.	~ :~ L9‘. the. Nutt boys made ehoe~ too, heavy, big ones dey wuz; but dey kep‘ ou?
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