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Oklahoma Writers1 Project
	I knowed. when dey started dat Wealaka school across de river from de Broken Arrow town. Dey name it for de Wilaki town, but dat town was way clown in de Upper Creek country close to whar I lived when I was a girl.

	I had. lots of children, but only two is alive now. My boy Anderson got 3~n a mess and. went to dat MoA1ester prison, but he got to be a trasty and dey let hirn marry a good woman dat got lots of property dar, and dey living all right now.

	When my old man die I come to live here wid Josephine, but I‘se blind and. cantt see nothing and all de noises pesters me a lot In de town. And de children is all so ill mannered, too. Dey •jest holler at you all de time! Dey dontt mind you neither!

	~	~ When I could~ see and. had. my own younguns I could jest set in de corner and. tell 1em what to do, and iffen dey didntt do it right I could whack tem on de head, tcause dey was raised de old Creek way, and dey know de old folics know de bestl