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fer a minute; o~an‘t ‘zact].y ident1~y my grandpa, but I can identify my grandma. We all raised on de same place together. She naine Cindy Brig~s, but dey call her Cina kaise dar wa~ so many Ciridy8 ‘round dar. One thins I does ‘member ‘bout her, ii she tote me~ she sho to whipine. I was raised strict.

	“~Lll my life I is stayed in de Thr (far ) end o~ Union County whar it borders Laurens, wid de ~noree dividing de two coun~ ties. It is right dar dat I is plowed arid hoed and raised my craps fer de past 75 years, I reckons . Lavvd have mercy1 No~ I doesn ‘t re. calls de names of none of dem mules . Dat t5 so fur back dat I is jes‘ done forgot, dat‘s all. But I does recall ‘fur back‘ things de be8t, sometimes. Listen good. now. When I ~ot big arid couldn‘t play ‘round at chillun‘s doings, I started to plattin€ cornshucks arid things fer making boss arid mule collars, and scouring~...brooins arid. shoulder~ats. I cut hickory. poles and make handles out of dein fer de brooms. Marse had hides tanried,and us make buggy whi~s, wagon whips, shoe strings, saddle ~trin~s and sech as dat out of our ho~e.~tanraed leather. ~ de galluses dat was wo‘ in dein days was made by de darkies,.

“White oak and hickory was spIlt. to cure, arid we made fish baskets, feed baskets, wood baskets, • sewing baskets arid all kinds of baskets fer de Missus. ~ll de chair bottoms of straight chairs was ::•. made from white oak splits, and de straight chairs was made ita de ~ . shop. You made a scouring brush like dis: (He put his hands together

	to show how the splits were held) By splitting a width of narrow splits, keep ontiu you lay a entire layer of sp1i~s; turn dis. way;

	den ~ way, and den.hirid to€ether and dat hàld dem like you want dem to s~tay. Last, you work in a pole as lone as you want it fer de

~--~ bind it tight ~rrd tie w~.d de puzUest knote.

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