Ood.e No.	N~o. Words_______
Project ‚ 1~5-~(i)	Reduced fi~om ~Words
Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewritten by~
Place, Marion, 8.0.	3J‘~7
Date, October 21, 1937	~:ge 6:  --	~—---—

string of beads, but I took it off. No,mam, Could& stan4 nothin like dat. Den some peoples keeps a bag of asafetida tied round dey neck to keep off sickness. Folks put it oil dey chi],lun to keep dem from havin worms. I never didn‘ wear none in my life ‚ but I know it been a go od thing for people, especially chillun. Let me see, dere a heap of ot he r tb ing s dat I lea rn bout be en go od !or people to wear for sickness. Dere been nutmeg dat sonte people make a hole in en wear it round dey neck. I forget whether it been good for neuralgia or some of dem other body ailments, but I know it won‘ for no conjurin. „

	“Honey, pa always say dat you couldn‘ expect no more from a child den you puts in dey raisin. Pa say, ‘Sylvia, raise 1~p your chillun in de right way en dey‘ll smile on you in your old age.‘ Honey, I don‘ see what dese people gwine expect dey chillun to turn out to be nohow dese days cause dey am ‚ got no raisin en dey am‘ got no manners. I say, I got a feelin for de chullun cause dey parents am‘ stay home enough of time to learn dem notbin en dey am1 been know no better. Remember when my parents went off en tell us to stay home, we never didn‘ darsen to go off de place. Den~when dey would send us off, we kuow we had to be back in de yard fo re sunup in de evenin • ys, child, we all had. to be obedient to our parents in dat day en time. ~ I always was sub-obedient myself en I never had no trouble nowhe ‚ • Ye s ‚ mam, when we went off anywhe‘. ‚ we ax to go en we been