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Mart;in. Got whole lot of grau‘ chillun; they cover de earth from Charlotte ‘to Jacksonville, and from Frisco to Harlem, New York; but never see them, just three ‚ Franklin, Masie and Marie Martin.

	t, I heard ‘bout Lincoln and Booker T. Washington. De President now in de White House, Mr. Roosevelt, have done more good for de nigger iii four years than all de other presidents since Lincoln, done in fifty years. You say its been seventy‘4wo years? ~7el1,than all de rest in seventy.4wo years. Don‘t you know dat is so? Yas sir, date de gospel truth.

	.	t, l‘s a member of de Baptist Church. Been buried wid my Lord in baptism and hope for a resurrection wid him in Beu].ah Lend.

	‘t Yes ‚ de overseer was de poor buekra, he was what you e alle dis

poor white trash. You know boss,de3e days dore is three kind of people. Ii:~west down is a layer of white folks, then in de middle is a layer of colored folks and on top is de creani, a lsyer of good white folks. ‘Spect

it~‘u be dat way ‘till Jedgeinent day.

	~ t, I ~c?t one boy name Ben Tillman, livin in dis town. Vlhite ~

folks calls him Blossom, but he don ‘t bloom ‘round here wid a~y money, though he is on de relief roll by Bayin‘ he got a poor old matmny nigh a hundred years old and he have to keep her up. ‘Spect when I gits my old age pen‘sion my chillun will~ pay me some little ‘tention, thank God. Don‘t you know ~ they wi il ‚ sure they will . „