Thdera1 Writ~r8‘ ?roject,	—5-p	• 240-—‘olklore.
p~etrict i~5,			An Interview with
sjkestOfl, Missouri.			Rachal Goings,ex-s1av~
			Cape Girardeau.
a babY ~ioI1er. Dey called me to o um quick	cause £Lammy found a baby.		by de a~tng house

5~ood a oie tree-~efl ï seed it had blown downan in de branche8 was a big nest an de nest WUZ empty. I sez —“Rite dere‘s where mammy found her baba—-rite outer dat nest“. Dey sex, 10 suh She done found it i.~ de chirni~r corner, ~ase we heard it dore.“ No, mammy di~en

need nobody to help tend to her. Aunt Hannah Erwin was a doctor woman. She could sure cure a wonlan if she had child-bed fever——but my mammy didden need her.“



Rachal Goings ‚l~es at end of l3odean Lane adjoining ~.ommunity Gardens ‚ Cape Girardeau, Missouri, no street number.
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