FOLKLORE
Project 1655		~4	(;7
Genevieve W. Chandler
Georgetoi~n County, S. C.	I~ge 3




UNCLE SABE RUTLEDGE

(Ex-suivE STORY)

Woods full up with cow. Cattle loose ~ free. W~ïen you want beef have to hunt for ‘ein like we hunts deer now. I n~mber some ox I helped broke, Pete, Bill, Jim, David. Paby was a broivn. Davl& kinder mouse color. We alwaye have the old ox in the lead going to haul rail. Hitch the young steer on behind. Sometimes they ‘give up‘ and the old ox pull ‘em by the necki Break ox al I the time. Fun for us boya ~ breaking ox. So much of rail to haula

	( “You oantt tell n~ bout thu pension? L4ok like to me somebody trying to smother something. Letters come. Carda come. 1~r name on outside airight.

Tell me to put my name on cards and hand ‘em out to x~r friends. Say iend t‘wenty-~five cents ‚ Next t ime say ‚ Send thirty.five cents ‚ . He coo 1 oft then and another n~n -~ Mr. lbpe come in. Got two letter front him and he

tell n~ be still tu] I hear from him again. J. E. Pope. Last blank I got from Mr. Pope he eey not to look for more than thirty or thritywtwo dollare a month. Say there ain‘t going to be no two hundred a month.)

	„ How ooir~ I know all thees Buh Rabbit stOry, Mudder epin you know.

Have the great oak logs iron fire dog. Have ie chillun to ~it by the fire— place put the light.~wood under —~— blase up. W. four ohilltm have to pick seed out the cotton. Work till ten o‘clock at night and ries early3 Mudder