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	~The gov‘ment give me a pension and I gits 1.111 odt~ jobs round, to get by. But times been hard and I ain‘t had. much to eat the las‘ few years. Not near so good as what old. massa done give me. But I gits by somehow.

	‘~1 done thé ‘bé~~ I coui~i, ‘sidering I‘s turned out with nothlnt when ~ crowed and ~j4y~t~ know much, neither. ~e young ~o1ks, they lcnowz more, ‘cause they got the chazice for ~