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we builds cribs and Ilidia‘ take long ‘tors we could buy some ho8see and some mtiles and some good. hogs. Dem mangy ~hogs what our marster give ua de tiret yeax~ was plum good hogs after we greass dem and scrub dem wid lye soap. He Joe‘ give us de ones he thought tas sho‘ to die but ws was a tin‘ goin‘ nov and ‘fore long we was a buildin‘ better bouaea and teelin‘ kind of happy like. After oie marster dies we keeps hearin‘ talk of Texas and me an‘ my oie man, l‘a done been married several years den and had one little boy, well we gits in our covered wagon wid our little mules lAtched to it ~tnd we comes to Texas. We worked as shar• croppers around Buffalo, Texas ‘tu my oie man he died. ~y boy was nearly gvoin den so he wants to come to San Angelo and work, so here we is. He done been married long time now and got six chillun. Some of dem work at hotels, and cafes and fillin‘ stations and in homes.“