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	*1 wuz rai~ed in Wasbin‘ton, Wilkes County, and de fu8t

I ‘~mer2bers wuz stayin‘ wid hIss ~ilice ~ayle. She had three chillun

and I nussed ‘ers. One of de boys is a doctor now, and has a fambly

o±~ his own, and de last I heered of ~ he wuz stayi& in Atlanta.

	*Itse been married‘ two ti~es. I runned away wid Will c~risham, when I wuz ‘bout 14 years old. Mr. Carter, a J~ustic~~ of de P~ac~ ‚ r~et us under a ~ siinmon tree and tied de knot right dar. My folk~s ketched us, but us wuz already marr~ied and so it didn‘t make no diffunce.

	“I lived on .a farm wid my fust husband, and us had three ~hîllun, but dey is all gone now. I ‘i~eEbers when ~y oldes‘ gal witz ‘bout 2 years old, dey wuz playin‘ out on de porch wid dey little :log, when a Dad dog coi~e by and bit r~y chillun‘s dog. Poiks kilt our dog, and jus‘ ‘bout one week attt~rwarde n~y little gal wuz daid too. Shedid love dat little dog, and he sho‘ did mind ‘er. ‚ She jus‘ grieved herself to death ‘boi~t dat dog.

	“Atter r:~y fu~t husband died, I rarried ?dch Bradley. Rich ~ \7UZ a railroad man, and he went off to Washin‘ ton, D. C. ‚ to wuk. ~ He sont ie money all de time den, but when he went from dar toShecargo ~-‚ t~o wuk I didn‘t hear from ‘in long, and I don‘t know what‘s hap~pened to ‚ im ‚ tu now, for it‘ s been a long tine since I hee.red frorri ‚ un.

	“I loves to run de cyards-Thr niy friends. I always tells ‘em vthen I sees dere‘s trouble in de cyards for ‘ein, and shows ‘ein ~:ow to ~it ‘roufl~ it, if I kin. iTone of de res‘ of my folks ever run c~e cyards, but I‘se been at it ever since I wua jus‘ a little gal, pickin‘ up old w~ore out cyards, dat had been th‘ owed away, ‚ cause I