~x..s1aVe Stories	Page Six
(Texas)






9t inidni~ht and hold de bag of ashes in you hand and look up at de moon but don‘t ~rou. open you iixutli. ~ex~ inornin‘ ~it up early and. go to de court~ house ~nd sprinkle dem ~she~ in de doorw~r and. dat law trouble, it gwine git tore up jes‘ like de lightnin‘ done tore up dat tree.

	UDe z~ioestrin~ root am powerful strong. I~fen ~rou chews on it and

spits a ring round ie person what you wants sornethin‘ from, y‘ou gwine git

lt.	You can git more money or a job or most anythin‘ dat way. I had a black cat bone, too, bat lt got away from me,

	“Its got a big frame and used. to weigh a hunerd pounds, but dey tells me I onJy weighs a hunerd now. Dis Louis Southern I lives with, he‘s de youngest son of my grands on ‚ who was de a on of my youngest daught er. My marse, he lcaowed Gen. Houston and I seed him mansr a time, I lost what teeth I had. a long time a~o and in 1920 two more new teeth corne throu.gh. Dem teeth sho‘ did worry me and l‘s glad when dey went, too.