Cape Girardeau Co.	. Folklore. 55 : page4. ~

~	(Con‘t-INTERVI~I ‘WITH 1~TTY BROWN)

.	“~When we got to St. Francis Rivuh dey ferried us across on a big flat, an‘ had a rope tied acrose de rivuh to pull us ovuh. But we had to ford ~ ~!atuh“~1 Castuh rivuh, an‘ ~~ggerwool~‘~amp, ~flhen we‘d come to de rivuh de white n~n ‘ud say: ‘Ack like sojers‘ . De hosses ‘ud swim across, pullin‘ de wagon, some o‘ de big.folks ‘ud grab hole‘ de feed box an‘ de rest ‘ud each grab roun‘ de one in front an‘ dat way we ~ fords de ri~‘uh8 ‚ wid stings a‘ folk haùgin‘ out behin.‘ de wagons .

/	“Hoo-doos‘, ghosts‘s er signs? No mam~ Ah don‘ believe in none of dat. Now you is tryin‘ to eau up de devil. But wait‘. Ah kintell you onesign dat ah knows is tree.

~	If de dog j es‘ lays outside de do‘ aleepin‘ an‘ has his haid inside de do ‚ ‚ you‘ s gonna‘ git a new number in de family befo‘ de year is out. An‘ jes‘ de othuh way roun‘ • de dog lays sleepin‘ inside de do‘ an‘ }~8 his haid hañgin;~ out ‚ you‘ e gtyine a lose a

~	‘menibith 01 y1~ family fo‘ de end a‘ de yeah.

~.	“Dey wuz sumpin‘ funny happen when ma little girl die sOmetime ago. She wuz a

; sweet chile. She wuz stayin‘ wuth Miss‘ English on Henderson Ave. ‚ an‘ ehe lost her

~..	niind. Ah don‘ know whut‘s a netter wuth her, but ah brung her home to take keer o‘ her, but she don‘ get no bettuh. One day 8he‘ s etandin‘ ‚ lookin‘ out de front do‘ an‘

~i 8he holler: ‘Heah dey‘s contin‘ aftuh me‘. Ah don‘ know whut she see, but ehe run to

~ . de back room an‘ stan‘ right dere.

~	Her. daddy an‘ me look at huh an‘ dar wuz a big ball o‘ fire hangin‘ ovuh her haid.

We picked huh up, an‘ put ~ihuh to bed. We sent fo‘ de doctab an‘ fo‘ de f~‘ieet ‚ an‘ : ~ got de nurse ~t we had when she fust took sick. I nevuh knowed whut wuz dé ~ttuh

:.:.with her. ~De ~~iøst~ would&t tell me, de doctuh wouldn‘t telirne, an‘ ah guess de nurse


~ •~ gree~i~a‘bout it ez ah wuz. Some folks t.ll me 8he wuz conjured. •Mah. p0‘ little ::~girl“, „ ~ . ~ ~ . ~ ~



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