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	polkiore	Edited ~by: 12
	3part~nbur8, Dis~.4	Elmer Turna&~e
Jan. 1?, 193?

STORIES FROM EX~.SUVES


	t?My Deo~1e tells me a lot about when I wa~ a lii‘ wee boy. I has a clear mind and I allus has had one. ~y ~o1ks did not talk up people‘s age like Loiks do dese d~-qs. Every place dat I be now, ‘specially round dese ~overnment folks, rirst thin~‘ dat dey wants to know is your naine. Well, dat i~ quite natu‘al, ~rut de very next questiori is how old you is . I don ‘t know why it is ‚ but dey sho do dat. As my folks never talked age, it never worried me till jes‘ here of late. So dey says to nie dat last v~eek I give one a~e to de man, and

flO~N I gives another. Soon I see‘d dat arid I had to rest my mind. on

dat as well as de mind of de ~overnment folks. So I settled it at

~o years old. Dat ~~ives me resect from everybody dat I sees. Den it is de truth, too, kaise I come along wid everybody dat is done

~one and died now. De few white Loiks what I was coritemperment (con..~ terr~porary) wid, ‘lows dat I is ßO arid dey is dat, too.

	tfYou know dat I does ‘member when dat Sherman man went t~iroL~h here wid dem awful mens he had. Dey ‘lowed dat dey was gwine to Charlotte to git back to Columbia. I never is beard of sech befot or since. ~e lived at old man Jerry i~oss ‘s in Yorkville, way back den. Yes sir, everyone said Yorkville, den, ~ but dey ain‘t never called Gaffney like dat. Stories goes round ‘bout Sherman shooting yolks. Some say dat he shot a biß rock off‘n de State House in Col..~ umI~1a. My Ma and my Pa, Henry an~t Charity Rice, hid me wi-d dem when Sherman come along. Us never see‘d him, Lawd God no, us never wanted to see him.