Ex..slp.Ve Stories	Page Two
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“Us chilien hang round close to the bi~ house and us have ~. old

r~an tnat went round with u~ and. lock after us, white chilien ~nd black chillen, ana. that old. rn~ was n~y ereat grand—th~‘ddy. Us shot have to mind him, tca~1se iffen we didn‘t, u~ shot have bad. luck. He aflus h~ve tne pocket ±U1 oÎ things to conjur~ with. That rabbit root, n~ took it oi~t and h~ v~ork that on you till ~‚rou take the creeps ~nd. ~it srtakin‘ all over, Then therets ~ pocket full (yr fish scales nnd he kind of equec~Ic and. rattle the~i in trie hpnd and right, then :rou wish y~i was dead and promi se t o d ~) anythi ng. Anot h~r t hi ng he allus have in t tie p o cke t was n. 1111 old drv..up turtl~, ~ a mud turtle ‘bout trie size of a ~~‘e thur~b, t:.e whole thing j~s‘ dry up and dead. ‘~Vith that thing he say he could do rnost anything, but he never use it iffen he ai.iitt have tc. A f~v tirn~s I seed him git all t~ngle up and bodclered ~nd he go otf by his~lf‘ and sot do‘.vr~ in a quiet place, take out this very turt~ and. put it in the paTh of the hand and turn ~t round ~a~d round and sa~ soruethin‘ all the time. After while h~ git ~veI7thin~ ontwisted cnd he corne b~~k with a smile on ~e face R~d maybe whistlin‘.

~They fed ~ll us nigger chilien in a ~ trough make out‘n wood,

maybe more a wood tray, dug out‘n soft timber like nia~no1i4r c‘r~ress.

They put it urnier a tree in the shade in swmner time ~ give each chile a wood spoon, then mix aH the food up in the trough end us goes to catin‘. NOS‘ the food was potlicker, jest common old potlicker: turnip green and the juice, Irish ttaters and the Juice, cabbages and. peas end be~iis, jest anything wti~t make potlicker. All UM ~it round like ~o manY lit 1 Pies and then us dish in with our wood spoon till. it all gone.