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C.	R. McLean,	Geo. H. Conn,	Page 1.
District SuperviBor		  Writer	District ~5
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Wilbur C . Axmnon,	~rune U ‚ 193?	#240 ‚ Folklore
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	In a little old rocking chair, site an old colored “menixny“ biown to her frienda as “Grandinà~ Smith ‚ spending the remalni zig daya with her grandchildren. Sxuall of stature, tipping t!ze acales at about 100 lbs. but alert to the wishes and cares of her children, this old lady keep. posted on current events from those around her. With no stoop or bent back end with a firm step she helps with the housework and preparing of meals, waiting, when perniitted, on others. In odd moments, she like to work at her favorite task ot “hooking“ rag rugs. Never having worn glasses, her eyeaight$ is th. envy of the younger generation. She spei4~ nest of the ti~ at ho~, ~re~ ferrlng her rocker and pip. (she has be~ imoking for ~re than eighty year) to a back seat in an auton~bile.

	When referring to Civil Wax‘ days, her eyes flash and words flow fran her with a fluency equal to that of any youngster. Much of her speech is hard to understand as she reverts to the early idiom and pronunciation of her race. Her head, tongue, arnie and hands all move at the same time as she talks.

	A note of hesitancy about speaking of 1~er past shows at times when. she realizes ehe is talking to one not of her own race, but after eight years in the north, where she has been treated courteously by her white neighbors, that old feeling of inferiority under which

she. lived dur I zig slave days and later on a plantat ion in Kentucky has 9bout disappeared.