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	ttHow~5y Miss. Vie is sure got a purty day fer de scrubbin‘ job.

Hit will dry as fae‘ as we turns hit loose.

	“Now jes‘ look a yonder, ef she ain‘t got gold-$ishes an‘ ever‘ thin~ heart could wish1.~-~~Is they got ary increases?~-Yagsum,~~ dat‘s good; rnebby ~o you can sell some.

	t1i~e got chil1un?.~-.-~we11 I is borned three head uv em, but dey all died right now; didn‘t live .a minute.

“Then I ‘dopted. me a baby boy. A little bìtty girl borned. him,

~	9f‘ she didn‘t want him,....-.he was in her way. She said. she‘d kill him, an‘ I didn‘t want ner to git in no trouble, so I tooken him.

	‘~3ut sho‘~ you bawn I is sorry I done dat t‘ing,..~-~dat nigger so tr1~1in‘, ne is goin‘ on fourteen now, an‘ he ain‘t no help to me at all. Hé only come home when he hongry, an‘ that‘s plenty often.

	U~t dis yere husbin‘ whut I is got now, he ‘spicions me about

other men‘s all de time, and. de boy an‘him togedder, keeps ever‘t‘ing riled up rnos‘ly, twell I1ll be glad effen you was to say, you need. nie to Eleep on your place.

“C~o to gch~~l? Yassum I ~ho did. I had three months a year

~or t~~ree years, and a extra i4onth onc‘t, that my mammy paid for. Dat ~ ten months for nie. I was de forwarde~ chile my mammy had.. Then ey ~ any readi.n‘ to do my m~nmy sont fer me.

	“Sis Kate kin turn o~more work then I kin, but I can mek more

~	OtLOfl• Oncet I won a contest wid. a man an‘ made 480 pounds. Dey ta~e a hundred pounds for dom‘ it.

~	arid Ta~,ylor, he‘w my other husband, the one that died, we used.

o	i‘o‘ mei~t bales near ~bout every year, but di.~ yer husband whut I got