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and sergeant would be right dere. De master would go out in de woods and hide and not come out till they rung de bell at de house.

	n]: voted since I been 21. I voted ftrRoosevelt twice. Some thinks he is golnt to get in again. V~hat‘s the use of tâkin‘ money from a man for votin‘ a certain way? If ~ like you and you have treated me good all my life den I‘ll vote for you.

	n]: don‘ t know what I think about de young Negroes today. ~‚ Dey is all shined up and goin‘ ‘round. If dey can read and write dey ought to know de difference between right and wrong. I dontt think dey will amount to much. Some of ‘em ain‘t got no~sense. My mother would not let me stay out . Now, dat is all dey dom‘ . Last night de policeman put a knot on my boy‘s head; he was drinkin‘ and got in-

to it with a coon. De young colored people is fightin‘ all de time. I don‘t get out. Just go to de store and come back home again. Dere is a house right ~. near where dey has a big ti~e every night. De whites and. black ones was mixed up here till I stopped it. Right down in dat hollow Pli bet you‘ll find one-third white women livin‘ with black men. Most all de colored people around here is workin‘ in the works here at Crystal City . Dey will get up . a war here if they keep

~ ..	on, you just watch, like they did in Illinois when dey burnt up a heap of cöcrns. It‘s liable to get worse de way dey Is goin‘ on.“