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A good white man I worked with taught me 'nough to spell 'comprestibility' and 'compastibility. I had good 'membrance an' I could have learned what white folks taught me, an' dey sees dey manners in me. "I mar'ied when I was turnin' 19, an' my wife, 15. I mar'ied at big Methodist Chu'ch in Needmore. Same old chu'ch is dere now. I hope build it in 1865.
During the campaign of 1904 a brother Democrat confided to me that "The people around hyur is so pore that if free silver war shipped in by the carload, we-uns couldn't pay the freight." So, when a settlement is dubbed Poverty, it is with no suggestion of whining lament, but with the stoical good-humor that shows in Needmore, Poor Fork, Long Hungry, No Pone, and No Fat all of them real names.
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