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it got ha‘ci, they would grind it. We always had meat the ye~r t round . We calle d hogshead cheese ‚ souse ‚ . But we never did make sausage then. It was a long time before we had. a sausage mill.. (ih, sho‘ we ruade ‘ehittlin‘s‘ (chitterlings). Vie make thera even now. Why mama always takes the paunch and fixes it up ever‘ time we kill hogs. Vie frried beef, strung it out, and put it on the~.line. ~7hen we got ready to cook it, we‘d take it and beat it and make hash and. fry it or boil it. We had lots of deer and turkeys, quail and tposs~, but they never did. do much eatin‘ rabbits. I didn‘t eat no ‘possums and. I didn‘t eat no honey; there was sever‘l things I didn‘t like. I like straight beef, turkeys, qjiail/and sQuirrel is mighty fine eatin‘. I set traps and. ~uld ketch q~iail. Armadillos are pretty good meat, but we didn‘t eat ‘em then. Why, I was gro~wn before I ever saw an armadillo. I don‘t know ~ere they immigrated from. Yes‘mn, I think they come from Mexico; they must surely have because they wasn‘t any here when I was a young boy. We used to see ‘em in shows before they ever got to be around here.

	“I wore a shirt that hit me down about my knees. When my mother lILade my paxrts, shen~.de ‘era all in one piece, sleeves ‘n all. The fust shoes I ever had~, my uncle tanned the leather and made ‘em. i.

gi.tess I was about six years old. He made the pegs, tanned the 1eath~
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er, and made the shoes. It takeçZ 18 months to tan the leather.

Bark tanned . Huh ‚ I ‘ n sm~U that old tannin ‚ Tat now . People nowadays, they‘re livint too easy. ‘I~aid to let a drop of water fall on ‘em.

	“aver‘ day was Sun&ay with me then. After we got up any size, they put us to work ‚ but we didn‘ t ~o rk on Swid.~y . Aft er I got to
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