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Projeot, 188541)	.	Rethiced. ~‚~~____
Prepared by Annie Ruth	Davis	Rewritten bf ~
Plaoe, Marion, 8.0.		_____________________
Date, Jane 21, 193‘?		pige ø.  ~ .



‘bout en help whip dat rice. Dey jee take d.e rice en beat it ~eroas eame hose dat d~ey hab fix up somewhey dere on d~e plantati on. Honey ‚ d.ey hab hos s je~ ].ak d~ee e hoe s ytth se e oarpente r use ‘b out heah dese d.aye . Dey !iid. hab lmnd.re de uv bushels uv dat rice dere. Den when dey ge‘ t‘r~mgh, ~ey hab big supper dere fa aw d.em whaT whip rice. Gi!e ein aw de rice en hog head. d~ey te ‘ er wan ‚ . Man, d~ey‘ud. hab &e nicest kind. 11V iflUSiC dere. Knock d.em bones togedder en slap en pat d~ey hand.e tø aw kind uv pretty tim.“

	“Dee d.ey hab rice mortare right d.ere on de plantation wha‘ dey fix d.e rice in joe uz nice. Now dey hab to take it to d.e mill. Ytth see dey hab uh big block outer in d.e yard. wid. nu big hole in it d.at dey put d.e rice in en take dese t‘ing cal]. pestles en beat down onit en d.at wha‘ knock de shaft offen it. Coase dey ne‘er hab no nice pretty rice lak yah øee d.ese days cause it waan‘t uz white uz de rice dat dey hab ‘bout heah die day en time, but it waz mighty sweet rice, honey, mighty sweet rice.“

	“J~TO‘Ifl~1fl, d.id.n‘t hab no schools tall den. Ne‘er gi‘e de colored peoples no l‘arnin‘ no whey ‘fore free&oii ‘o].are. Tha‘ 1 it tie 1 ‚ ~T ~ orne my way wttz ha‘ I ‘ whe n I stay wid Mise Martha Leggett &own dere to Legg.tt ‘e Mill Pond.. 1L “ter freedom ‚ dare ‚ uh lady from de north come dere en }tiss Legg•tt send. we ohillun to school to dat lad~y up ou de hill dore in de woo&e. No, honey, yuh am‘ n~‘er see no bresh tent