~x~..gla1Te Stories	Page Three
( Texas)





to Texas ‘cause R man whet want ray lend say I stoled a barrel from ne hcï~se. He try arrest ~ny old. woman ‘cause she say skie find the barrel. Now, I never have the ct~se in lawsuit aiid I ‘spect tO die that we~y. But I has to stay ‘way from Mauriceville for three year ~ ause that m~n say I thiefed he barrel.

	“Things was bad after us corne to Texas for a time. That Li.z~J. Scizche, he sho‘ rough man. Us cropped on the share and ~e take the crop and the money an1. lef‘ fest. Us didn‘t have a mess of nothin‘ left.

	III	manages :~O live by croppin‘. I been here 52 year now. My first wife name Massanne Plorshann, that th~ Prench. My wife what I got now n~~ne Annie. Mnss~nne she give r~e six chilien and Annie f o~ir.
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