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had paid ‘bout half on it. So I sold it back to de man what I bought it from for $45 and went to Bonne Terre and worked for de

s-e. Toe.Lead Co. and worked on de lead well and den went ~o tap~ pin‘ . I got ~l.6O for 12 hours. I worked dere until dey moved

de works uphere and den I followed de works right up here. Den I worked ‘bout 30 years here doing de same kind of work with the same flay. ~ ~

	“V~hen I quit workin‘ here it was about 13 years ago and I.was about 62 years old. De com~any just laid me off on account of age. Den de supervisor dere got me a job as janitor at de colored school here at ~~OO a month. I‘ve been janitor ever since. Dere is ten colored families in Herculaneum, and about 50 colored people here now but dare used to be mostly all colored but r~ost of ‘em done

left. I lived here in dis house alittle more dan 5 years without ~ayin‘ rent. ~ Den after my son got on the WPA dey begins to~take ~3.85 rent a month. ~iC been payin‘ rent ‘bout two years. The St. Toe Company owns all de houses here. We gets our water free. I‘se been gettin‘ a pension about a year now.

.	.ttI shot a fellow once in de leg. It was de man who n~r wife

was givin‘ my money to. I had a trial at Kir~swick before de ~ustice of Peace and served three months in de county jail at Hilisboro. The white folks come down and got me out and it didn‘t .

~ ~	cost me a, thing.