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	a 9 ~ they was t o my wedding • W~ had six chillun and they‘ s all farm ml round here. Sarah, she dies seventeen years ago and I ju.s1 lives round with fly chilien, tcause l‘s too old to do any works

	~‘All I ever done was to farm. That‘s all this here nigger b~ew what to do. O, I‘s seed the time when I never had nothin‘ to ea~t and my big bunch of chillun ~ cryin‘ for bread1 I could go to the woods then, but you ‘can‘ ~ git wild game no more, In them days it was five or ten mile to your nearest neighbor, bui~ now they~s so close you can ~tand in your yard and. talk to them.

	t, I never done no vöt in ‚ ‚ ‚ cause them Klu Kiuxers was allus at the . vot in ~ places for a long time after the nig~ers was freed. The niggers has got on since them old days. They has gone from nothin‘ to a fair educated folks. We has been kind of slow, 1c~.ise we was turnt loose without nothin1 ‚ and cou,ldn ~ t read and write .

.	“Its worked for fifteen and. thirty cents a day, but Lawcl, blessed to our president,~ we gits & 1111 pension now and thatts kep‘ me from plumb starvin‘ to death. Times is hard. and folks had to do away with everything when they had. that Hoôver fo r pres ident ‚ but they will be st raight ened out by and by 1f they‘ll listen t O the president now. ‚ Course ‚ s ~e wants to kill him, ~ cause he hoips the p oor ‚ but it do 1 ook I ike we ought to have a ]‚jlj, bread and salt bac,on wi thout upsett in‘ ‚ em, when they has so mua.



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