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"Leastways it's stopped up, and I knows a way down this a-way in and about as nigh as that," went on the speaker, in the same level voice. "Where do you live?" they asked him. "I lives back in the pines here a piece." "How long have you lived here?" "About twenty-three years, I b'leeves; 'ats what my mother says." "You know all the country about here?" "Ought to." "Been in the army?" "Ahn hahn."
Mah mammy wuz sold 'way fum me. She ma'ied a man named Brown en dey had seven chillun." "At fust I 'longed ter Marster Jim Caruthers. W'en his daughter ma'ied Fount Odell, I wuz willed ter her en den mah marsters wuz Fount en Albert Odell who wuz br'ers. Mah white folks let us go ter chuch. I b'leeves in de Baptist 'ligion. I nebber knowed any slave dat had ter hide ter sing er pray.
"Bad luck signs: Ef'n a picture falls, hit's a sign ob de'th bad luck ter step ovuh a broom ef a clock stop runnin' en later hit strike, dat means de'th." "Sum ob de young peeple terday ez good but sum ob dem don't wan'ter be nuthin'. De last war ruined mos' ob de white en de black." "I b'leeves in de Baptist 'ligion en 'longs ter de Baptist Church, 9th Avenue N. on Cedar Street.
But maybe you can tell me what to do. I likes this place. And I do hopes I get a pension before I gets to be a 'hundred." INTERVIEW RACHEL GAINES 1025 10th Ave. N. Nashville, Tennessee "Lawdy! I'se dunno how ole I ez. B'leeves I'se 'round 95 ter 100 y'ars. De fust thing I members ez I wuz tuk in a waggin ter Trenton, Kentucky en sold ter Dr. Bainbridge Dickerson jest lak dey sold cows en hosses.
Hulda slightly raised her eyes, which Levin took to mean assent, and he said: "Cannon's good enough for a body pore as me." "You're a-goin' with Joe to-night, ain't you?" "Yes'm, I b'leeves so." "That's right, cousin. You'll git rich an' keep your chariot, yit. Captain Van Dorn's gwyn to head the party. As Levin Cannon, ole Patty's pore cousin, he'll look out fur you, son.
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