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1tWha~t• lOt gwine d.o when de meat give out?
~hat yo‘ gwine do when de meat give out?
.	Set in de corner wid. my hoe pooched. out! liawsy!
		That y0t gwine do when d.e meat come ix~?
		That yo‘ gwine • do when de meat come in?
		 Set in de corner wid~ a greasy chin!
	~	Lawsy!“

about de only little nigger song I know, lesstn itbe de one


“Great big nigger, laying tlijfld d.e log ~
Pinger on de trigger and. eye on the hawg!
Click go d.e trigger anI bang go de gu.n!
Here come de owner and. de buck nigger rune

	And~ I think I learn both of dem long after I been grown, tcause I belong to a full~blood Creek Indian and. I did.ntt know nothing but Greek talk long after d.e Civil rar. My mistress was part white and. knowed. English talk, but she never did. t&Lk it because none of de people talked it. ! heard. it sometime, but it sound like whole lot of wild. shoat in de cedar brake scared. at something when I do hear it. Dat was when I was little girl in time of de ~ar.

I dontt know where I been born. Nobody never cUd. tell me.

mammy and. pappy git me after de War and I know den ~those child I is., at de Creek Agency help ~ ~ gît me, I . reckon, maybe.

First thing I remember is when I was a little girl, and. I belong to old. Thskaya~-‘hiniha. He was big man in de Upper Creek, and. we have a purty good.

H‘: ‚	size farm, jest a little bit to de north of de wagon depot houses on de old. road. at.Honey Springs. Dat place was about twenty~five mile south of Port Gtbson,;, but I ‘ t know nothing about ivhar « de fort s ~tthen I was a 1 It tie girl
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	LUCINDA. DAVIS Age (about) 89 yrs.
Tulsa, Okia.
Datt 5 about:
But my De men