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	sI have been having some sick spells lately, snapped thrée or four ribs out of place several yearsago, and was in bed for SIX weeks atter my wife died ten year ago. But lui 8tepœdaU~1ter here nursed me through it. Doctor says he doean‘t see how I keep on liv-. ing. But they take good care of me, my eons and step-daughter. They live here with me, and we‘re comfortable.“

	And comfortable, neat, and clean they are in the trimmest little frame house on the street, painted grey with green trim, having a square of green lawn in front and another in back enlosed with a rail fence, gay flowers in the corners, rubber plants in pots on the porch ‚ and grape arbor down one si de of the back yard . ~ mai de ‚ rust-.colore d mohair overstuffed chairs and davenport look prim with white, crocheted doilies, a big clock with weights stands in one corner on an ornately carved table, and severs]. enlarged framed pho-‘ tographs hang on the wall. The other two rooks are the combined kitchen and dining room, and a bedroom with a heatrola in it “to warm an old man‘s bones“. Additional bedrooms are upstairs.

	Pointing to one of the pictures, he remarked, “That was me at 37. Had lt taken for my boss where I worked. It was a post card, and then I had it enlarged for myself. That was just before I married Helen“.

	Helen Corner, use Cruitt, was a widow with four youngsters when he met her 54 yeei~s ago. One y~~ar later they were married and had two boys, Charles, now 4‘S‘, employed as an auto repair man, and Samuel, 43, a sorter in the Post Office, both bachelors.

	“Yes sir, I sure was healthy-.looking them daya. Always was strong, never took a dollars worth of medicine in fifty year or more till I had these last sick spells. But vre had good living in slave days. In one sense we were better off then than after the war, ‘cause we had plenty to eat. Nowadays, everybody has to fen‘ for himself, and they‘d kill a man for a dime.

	“Whip the slaves? 0h, ~y OOd! ~n‘t mention it, don‘t mention it~ . Lots of ‘ein in Old Dominion got beatings for punishment . They idn‘ t have no jail for slaves ‚ but the

owners used a whip and lash on ‘ein. I ‘ye ~ seen ~5TI1 On a chain gang, too ‚ Up at the peniten-tiary. But I never got a whipping in my life. Uwed to help around the grocery, and de-