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Hard to get a living. I don't mind work. I couldn't do a day's work now. "The young generation is beyond me. I don't be about them much." Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Alice Rivers W. 17th, Highland Addition, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 81 "Yes'm, I remember when the Yankees come. I ricollect when they throwed out all the meat from old master's smokehouse.
I shall be there the next four years, I suppose." "Yes, yes, to be sure. Yes, yes, of course. And you, Bernice? You have no mother, either. But who looks after you?" "I look after myself, Uncle. Father thinks there's no necessity for me to have a chaperon in our little home town." "Not a chaperon, child, but you ought to have some one to guide and teach you." "Dad doesn't think so.
And, by the way, how'd you girls like to have a party, a real one?" "Like the one we went to to-day?" asked Bernice, doubtfully. "I don't care much about it." "Well, have some other kind. There must be other ways of entertaining. What would you like, Bernice?" "I'd like a little party, but I suppose that would have to be formal, too." "Oh, gracious, you old hayseed!" exclaimed Alicia.
"But why didn't they?" and Bernice also looked bewildered. "Think a minute, you sillies. Nobody knew the exact date of the year one until after the year one was here. In fact, I don't think they began to count right away, anyhow. But certainly they didn't know five hundred and thirty-seven years before!" "Oh, I see!" cried Bernice.
"Malcolm was my especial friend long befoah I evah heard of Bernice Howe! Why, at the very first Valentine pahty I evah went to, he gave me the little silvah arrow he won in the archery contest, for me to remembah him by. I've got it on this very minute." She put her hand up to the little silver pin that fastened the lace of her surplice collar.
He was weak and indolent, a mere hanger-on of Rome, to which he owed his kingdom, and to which he stoutly stuck during all the tragedy of the fall of Jerusalem. Of course frivolity and debauchery become the business of such men. What sort of a man this was may be sufficiently inferred from the fact that Bernice was his sister.
"Stick to that, Mr. Fenn!" She turned her back on him, and putting her arm round Dolly, sat in silent sympathy. Suddenly Bernice spoke. She was not crying now, on the contrary, she was composed and quiet. "Uncle Jeff," she said, "this is a horrid thing that has happened.
The two D's had brought the pretty skating costumes they had worn at the Berwick carnival, but as Bernice had been the queen that night, her white velvet gown was out of the question. Alicia, too, had no appropriate garb, so these two bought new dresses. The final result was four very becomingly attired girls who started merrily off on Saturday afternoon for the party at the rink.
Hideous corruption of wedlock reigned round them. Such profanations of it as were shown later by Herod and Herodias, Agrippa and Bernice, were but too common; but in that quiet nook these two dwelt 'as heirs together of the grace of life, and their prayers were not hindered.
Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Emma Turner 330 W. Sixth Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 83 "Yes ma'am, I was born in slavery days. They never did tell me when I was born but I was ten the seventh day of August the same year we was freed. "No ma'am, I wasn't born in Arkansas. I was born in Georgia. I sent there and got my license to show my age. I was twenty years old when I married.
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