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E~—s1~V~ Stories	Pace Three
(Texas)





~	black ~nd jes‘ a poor. old nigger, but I rev~renc~ my white folks

~	(~y rared me up in d~ right wn~r. If eullud fo1k~ p~y ‘tentlon and

1ist~T1 to whet (i~ white folks tell dein, dt~ world be a h~p better off‘s U~

~~1c1 niggers knows dat‘s d~ trath, too, 1~ause we larns r~spec‘ and inarin~rs

from our white folks and on de great d~y of jedgrnent my white folks is gwineter

iu~t rnc~ afl(1 shnke hands with me r~.nd be glad to see m~, Y~, suh, dat‘ ~
truth!