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Project, i&S5~-(i)		Reduced f~orn ~~~worde
prepared by Annie Ibith Davis		Rewritten by
Place, Marion, S.C.		___________________
Date, February 14, 193e	390001	Pagel.     ~  ~  ~ 26F7


LIZZIE‘S ‘SPONSIBILITY



	The firet scene of “LizZie‘s 1Sponsibility“ is that of the small, one room dwelling place of Lizzie Davis, aged. colored woman of Marion, S.C. A disorderly, ill...lighted., crudely furnished room, saturated with the odor of food. Behind the front door stands a gayly colored iron bed, over which is thrown a piece of oilcloth to keep the rain from leaking on It. In the center of the room are several little quaint honietnade stools and two broken rockers, while in one corner sits a roughly finished kitchen table, the dumping place of all small articles. Still in another corner, aLnost hidden from sight in the darkness, is the dim outline of an old trunk gaping open with worn out clothing, posBibly the gift of some white person. A big fireplace in one side of the wall not only furnishes heat for the little room, but also serves as a cookin~tlace for Lizzie to prepare her meals. On ~ hearth sits a large iron kettle, spide~, and griddle, relics of an earlier day. The room is dimly lighted by the fire and from two small doors, together with a few tiny streaks that peep through at various cracks in the walls and top of house.

	It is about 9 o‘clock on a cold, drizzly morning in January, l93~. The little two room house, in which Lizzie rents one room for herself, displays an appearance of extreme coldness and. di-~ lapidation ‚ as a visitor approaches the doorway on this par~