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: ~ help to bring my brother Richard, us calls himDick, into de world.


Dat is, when mar~iy got in de pains, I run. for de old grarmy on de place to come right away. Us both run all de way back. Good u~ did, for dat boy come right

away. I ‘~31ømbers,to dis hour and minute,dat as soon as dat boy got here, he set de house full of noise, a~cryin‘ like a oat scjuallin‘. All chillun does dat though, as soon as they corne into de world. I got one sister older than me ; her name Jenny ~ats on • Her live ~ iu~ a house on de Canaan place ‚ callin‘ dis tance from where I live. Us is Methodists. ~ proud family, brought low by Mr. Hoover and his crowd. Had to sell our land. tSpeot us would have starved, as us too proud to beg. Thank God, Mr~ Roosevelt come ‘long. Him never ask whether us democrat or ‘publican nor was us . black or white ; him just clothe our nakedness-and ease de pains of hunger, and goin‘ fux‘ther, us goin‘ to be took ~

care of in ôur old age • Oh, ho~ I love dat mans though they do say 14m got ~
enemies. ~	~ -	- --	- ~

	_‘t~r_ brother, de preacher, says dat occasioned by de fact dat de President got a big stick and a big foot ‚ dat sometime he tromp on de gout foot s of aome of them r ich people • Howsomever ‚ he s ay dat as long as de Lord ‚ de Son, and de Holy Ghost is wid de Presjde~t, ittil be all right for us colored folks. It makes no difference ‚ bout who is against de Pre s ident • 11e says us niggers do~in ~

- South can do nothin‘ but be ~thodist, pray to de I~rd, and shout for de Presi~

dent. I‘s goint to try to_do som&of de prayin‘ -but dis voice too feeble to do . - j ‘mie-h shouiin‘~ . ~

~What kind of house us li~e i~i. at sls.verytime? ~.oe plank house. ~lI

—~ houses~in de qt~arters--made \da~iway. Our beds was good.- Us had a good xnarster~. --

~. Our livi& hous~äxid vittles was better and healthier than they is now. Big qu~r~ ~ ~ had n~• f~rnilies wid a big dro~e of ohiIli~m. ~ Fód them . from big long ~