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(Texas)




in debt and makes us work so manï years to p~y ±~or lt. They gives us our own ground ~nd soraetlaos we makes two bales of cotton on it. ‚ Course, we works for them, too, and they p~iys us a little and when Christmas comes we can buy our own thln~s. U used to haul sugar ~nd ‘lasses for Papa John up to Brazorta i~nd sometimes to Csl~mbia.

l!Yes, euh, I been hers a 1on~ time, lone tii~ie. All my own stuff

is dead now, I ~~xess. I ~ot grandehillen in Œal~eston, I think, but all my Own stuff is dead.