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moved to Cass County. I raises six chillun but my old man done git so triflin’
and mean I quit him and worked for myself. I come to Texarkana to work, and
allus could earn my own livin’ till ‘bout a year ago I lost my seein’, and
Albert Ragland done took me in his home for the old folks. They gives me a
$10 a month pension now. They is good to me here and feeds us good.



				


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