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	Miriam Logan	pace 2-‘CeIa Henderßon,	 ~• 43
Lebanon Ohio.

Loulevi 11e f o he r f0 iks wuz al 3. . theah.. Ah live ~ In Liutevl 1 le tu th eum to Letanon. All ah ‚ members bout de e lose o ‚ de wah, wuz d~t *hlte folks wuz broke up an pa ‚ down dere at Natchez ; and de fus time ah ~ hearB de EMkt‘TICAPTION read out dey wai‘ a lot o‘ prancin ‘roun, an~a big time.“

	“Ah seen eoldie~‘s inblue down there in Natohez on de hill, onoet ah seen dem cumin down de road when ah were drivin mah cows up de road. Ah wuz scared sho, an‘ ah hid in de bushes side o‘ de road tU d~ went by,~ don‘ member dat mah cows was much BCaX‘ed though.“ Mammy say ‘bettah hide when you sees sojers a-marchin by, SO dat time a whole line o dem cura alone and I hide.“ .

	“Down dere mammy done her cookin‘ outa doors,wid. a bi~ oven. Yo sits yo fiah soin‘ ~es so under de oven, den you shovels some fiah up on top de oven fo to get you bakin ~es right. Dey wuz bi~ baick kettles wid hooks an dey run up an down like on pulleys ovah de oven stove. Den de re wuz de Co I ‘house • No ‚ le ctri e i ce box .~lak now ‚ but a house under ~OUflt wheah things wuz kept jest as col‘ as .a ice box.‘ No‘ein don‘t ‘member jés how it were fix inside.“ ~ .. ‚

	“Yas ‚ em we comes back to Louleville. Yes ‘em rnah chilien goes to s oho 01, lak ‘ah nevah did. Gulled t eachers in de Culled s ohool. Yes ‚ em mali chilien went far as dey could take‘em.“

	“Medi ein? My ‘ mammy were great fo he rb d‘ an I holds by dat too a good deal, yas‘em. Now-a-days you gets a rusty nail in yo foot an has lockjaw. But Lh member maxnmy~‘she put soot mix wid bacon fryin‘s on mah foot when ah run a bi~ nail inter it, an mah foot ~et well as nice~“

	“Long time a~o ah cum heah to see mammy. 4h ~ot a terrible misery.~h wuz asleep a dreamin bout it, an a sayin, “Mammy yo reckbn axel grease 60m‘ ~„ to he‘p it?“ Den ah wake up an ~o to her wheahe she‘s sleepin an say it.
I	“What f0 axel grease ~ointo hep‘! ~an I toi her, an she say:-
j “Axel grease put on hot, wid red flannel 6oin‘to tak it away chile.“
~	Ah were an ol ‚ ‚ woman mahee ‚ f den-bout fifty, but mar~y. she climb outa
I bed an go out in de yard where deys an ol‘ wagon, an she scrapes d~t axel
~	off,an heat it UP an put it on wid red flannel. Den ah ~ot easyi ~
)	Ah eho was thankful when dat ~rease an flannel got to wukin on me
I “You try it sometime when you gets one o‘ dem col‘ miseries in de winter
j time. But go ‚ long~ Folke is to~ erna ‚ t nowadays to use ‚ dem good ‘
~	~ medicines. Dey jes‘ calls de Doctor a~ri he come an cut‘em wide open fO de .
\	‘pendycitta—kie sho do2 Yaa‘em ah has de doctor,ef ah needs him. ~ has ide rheumatism, no pain-ah jes gets stiffer, an‘ stiffer right a1on~“
	‚ Mali si~it sho am poor now. ~ eain‘t wuk no mo, 4h done ironin6 aftah ah quit cookin-~washin an ironin, ah likes a nice wash an iron the bes fo wuk. ~ But laayear maheyes done cive out on. me, an dey tell me not to wvvvy dey go~to give~me a pension.‘ De rnan~oes to a heap o‘ wuk to get dèm pa~re ~ fix 3es ri~,ht.“ ~








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