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de house. U~ cow-pen boys had to go drive up de caff s. Cow-pen boys? Cow-pen boys, dem de boys what keep aw~ay de caffa when dey do de niilkin‘. Co‘se, lots of times when dey froo milkin‘ us jump on ‘em and ride ‘em. Whenebei‘ dey ketch us dom‘ dat dey sho‘ wear us out. Dat warn‘t yestiddy.“

	“Furai l‘s concern we had a plum good time in slav‘ry. Many a year my grampa raise a bale of cotton and marster buy it. Dat wa~ encou~~agin‘ us to be smart.“

?~My daddy name‘ Ecimond ‘good and my ma am‘ Maria.

I had a brudder and a sister; dey am‘ Cass and Ann. I

been a Larmer all my life . I kep ‚ on farmiri ‚ ‚ till de

boll weevil hit dese parts andden I quit de farm and

went to public work. I work in de woods and cut l•gs.

I buy dis house. I been here ‘roun‘ Voth ‘bout twentyLive year‘.“

	UI bee~i marry twict. Dc fus‘ time I marry--I git so

stinkin‘ •l~ I can‘t ‘member when it were, but it been a l.ng ways back. My fus‘ wife, Mary Johnson. She die‘ arid den I marry dis yere woman I got yere now. Her naine been Rhoda McGowan when I rnarr~ her but she been marry ‚. Bife if us •l‘, ain‘t fit for nuttin‘. Us git pension‘
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