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~ .	‘round dere giggl& wid her. I go clean crazyL

“Then us gi-b married and go to de ten~i~aore quarry ~rid Mr. ~.riderson. I w ork dere a while and then go to Captain Macfie ‚ then to his son, Wade ‚ and then to Marse Rice Macfie. Then I go 1~iack to de quarry, drill and gît out stone. They pay me ~3.5O a day ttil de Parr Shoals Power come in wid ‘lectric power drills and I was cut down to eighty cents a day. Then I say: ‘Old grey hossl Damn ‘leotric toolin‘, l‘s gwine to leave.‘ I went to ]Elopewell, Virginia, and work wid de DuPonts for five years. War come on and they ask me to work On de acid. area. Dc atmosphere dere tear all de skin off xrry face and ar~ns, but I stuck it out to de end of de big war, for $7.20 ~ day. I drunk a good deal of liquor then, but I sent money to Carrie all de time and fetch her a roll every fourth of July and on Christmas. After de war they dismantle de plant and I come ba.ck to work for Wir. ~leazer, on de ~aluda River for ~2.OO a day, for five years.

~	tiCarrie have chillun by me. Dere w~s ~nderson, ~ son, ai&t see him

in forty years. Essie, my daughter, marry Herbert Perrin. Dora, another daughter, marry Ed Ovrens • Ed makes good xn~ney int at de faott~y in Winnsboro. ~ They

have seven ohillun. Us tries to keep them ohillun &ii schoöl but they dÖntt have de good times I had when a child, a eatin‘ cracklin‘ bread and buttermilk, liver, pig-‘tails, hog—ears and tuniip greens.

~tDoes I tmember anything ‘boul de K].u Kiuxes? Jesus, yesi My old


marster, de doctor, in goin‘ ‘ro~d, say out loud to people dat Klu 1~iuxes was

.	doixi‘ some thi±igs they ough~not to do, by ‘.storti~‘ moitey out of niggers just
	T cause :tbey could.	~ . ‚

	-	tiW~en: 1~ • was gone . to Unio~i one clay, a low~dowa: ~iL of white ~ men come ~ ~ wid false faoes, to de house and ask where Dick Bell was. Miss Ne.nc~r say her
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