Andrew Moss ‚ ex-~1~ ire page~-5-s ~? r o ~ Jt) u How come I live in Knoxville, I was a young r~n, when I sterted off from Georgia, airnin to go over de mountains to Kentuc1~y whar I heard dey pay good wages. I stopped in Campbell coi.rntry,Tennessee wid another feller, &n~. I see‘d a pretty gRJ. workjn‘ in de field. An I s~y‘s,I‘rn goin‘ to marry dat ~a1. Sh~ ‘nou~h me an her was married in less dan six months. Her Marster build ~ ~1 iO~ house cnd we lived dar ‘till we come to Knoxvilie,Tenne~see. i~ow, all o my boys is dead..by one o em worked for ~r.~eters ( Peters and ~radley ~1our Mills, of K~oxvi1le)‘-‘ and. dey all died. worin‘ fer him~ ~o Mister ùillie, he say he gwine let ne live here, in de compax~r house, the rest o my days.U The four room frame house stands near R creek at the dead. end of a~ elley on which both w~riites and ne~ioes live.The huge double bec~ ‚neatly made, stands between two windows from vthich there is an u~obstru~cted view of the highway traversin~ north and south th~ou~h northern Knoxville, several blocks away from Andrew‘s home. “I jes lay down on d~t ~bed nights and watch them autimobiles flyin by. Dey go Blip~ Bliptand Blip! ~n I say to my self,tWptch them fools! t polkes am got de sense dey‘s born wid.Mn smart like dey used to be.An times aTh‘Eood li~e dey was. Ef‘n ~it ~dnt been for some of dem crazy fools, actin up and smarty, me an my wife‘d be ~ittin r~rbe ~ k~i~tered ‘~n more dollars ~ month, ‘stead.o the fifteen we ~its ttwe~ .. n us for oie‘ ~e help. They ‘ci ought te let Rosevelt rdone.An its his own folks as is fitin~ ‘im.TTe is a big man even ef he is a Democrat. I‘m a 1~epub1ican though. Voted my first time for Blaine.H “Yes I votes sometimes now, when dey coa~e ~it~me. An befo I ~ot sick, I would ride the stree.t car to to~n.An I goes down to de Court. House, and when . . I see dem cannons in deyard I Cain: keer from cryin~. My wife arsk me what make ~‚.‚ me ~o look at dem cannon ef ‚ n dey make s me e ry .Xn ~ I t ei i s her I ~ e ~ ~ bout : de good 8nd de bad. times dem c~n~on bringed us.Bu.t no canams or riothin‘ else, seems like going to bring oack de good old times Bit I dont worry ‘bout all d.ese things mtich.Accordin‘ to Lie Good. Book‘s promise, weepin‘ may endure for ~ L