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Project, i~5-‘(1)	Reduced from_~I~rds
Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewritten by	~
Place, Marion, S.C.	—-t--  -	—.-------.	—	 10
Date, December 7, 1937	PageI.			--


Saturday evenin, ehe would save some of it till Monday to Carry to dat child. My ~velina, she always would eat en she used. to bring Lala here wid her a heap of times to get sornethin to eat. She would come in en fetch her dat tin plate up dere full of corn bread en molasses en den she wou.ld go to puttin dem ration way. Would put her own mouth full en den she would cram some of it down Lala‘s mouth in dQ. child‘s belly. You see, I always would keep a nice kind of syrup in de safe cause I don‘ like none dese kind of syrup much, but dis here ribbon cane syrup. My Lord, dat child would stand up dere en eat just as long as Evelina poke: it down her. Oh, Lala been just a little thing plunderin bout en I tell Evelina dat she ought not to feed dat child dein coarse ration, but she say, ‚ Lala Want some en I gwine give it to ber cause I loves her.~ No, child, Miss Owe ne never didn‘ worry her mind bout whe ‚ Evelina been carry dat child. You see, she been put trust in £velina.“

	‘II don‘ know what to tell you, honey. I bout like Miss Betty now. My 1membrance short dese day8. Oh, I hear talk bout all kind of signs de people used to worry over en some of dem still frets bout dem,too. Hear talk dat you mustn‘t wash none on de New Years ‚ I~y. It bad luck, so a heap of dem say. Den some folks say it a sign of death to hear a owl holler at night. Some people can1 bear to hear dem, but don‘ no owls worry me, I say. Lord, Maggie, dis child ax me how a owl holler when it a sign of death. Well, dey does holler a right good