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VICTOR ~IHON was born 9? years ~igo 1~ L2.f~yette Ptrish, La., a s1~ve of the Duhon family. His blue eves a~d almost white ski* are evidence of the white strain in his blood. Even after many years of ~ss~eiation with Eiglieh spcaki~g persons, he ~ speaks a French patois, and his stQry was iRterpreted by a
Beaumont french teacher.



	9}~&y papa was Luci en Duiioi and my m~ima ~irip~. D~ipui s. I was born over ~]L Louisiana in Lafayette Parish, between Broussard and Warville. Pm 97 years old now,

	“I didn‘t have brothers or sisters, except half ones. It is like this, my mz~ma was a bouse servant in the Thihon f~xnily. She was the hairdresser. One day she barbered master‘s son, who was Lucien. He says that he‘ll shave her he~ad if she wo*‘t do wh2.t he likes. After that she his woman till he marries ~ white lady.

	“My gr~ndin~ma was stolen from Afric~ and she lived to be 125 y‘ars old, She died last ye~r in April. I think I‘ll live long as she did. There were fifteen slaves on the land what Dahon‘s h~..d but I never ra~ around with them. I had room at the back of the big house. You ka~w, M~dame IYahou was my graridrnama. She was good to me. The o~1y thing I did was look to my master‘s herse ~x~d be coaclimai for Mad~ine. Master had. four eons. They were R~ant and Jaques and Ludlen and. i)esire, Desire was shot at the dpnce.

	“Master had. abOut 100 aCres ili cotton ~nd the cor~i. He had. a slave for to hunt all the time. He dida‘t do other things, The