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	“When I o~ed moat I had àix head males and. five head horeec. I rented 140 acrea of lend. I bought this house and ao~ other land about • The anthrax killed nearly all my horses and imilea. I got on big fine mule yt. Its mate died. I lost my houe.. My eon give ~ one room and he paying the debt off now. It ‚ a hard for colored folka to keep anything. Somebody gets lt trum ‘em if they don‘t mind.

	sme preaent tims is hard. Timber is scarce. Game la about ill gone. Price. higher. Old folks cannôt ~rk. Timea is hard for younger tolke too. They ~ to town too imich and go to shows. They going to a tent ahow now. Circus coming they say. They spending too naich mony for foolishneas. It‘e a fast tim. Polka too reetlees. Sons of the colored folks *rk hard t~e folks ever did. Th.y ependa too ~ch. 8c~ folks is lazy. Alwaya been that way.

	~1 ai~iied up to ths Governmlnt b~tt they ain‘t give me rnttbin‘ ‘ceptin‘ pOwdered milk and rice what wasn‘t fit to eat. It cracked up

and had black acmethin‘ in it. A lady said ehe would give ~ Shilte that waa her huabends. I went to get them ~it ehe wasn‘t h~.

These heavy ahirte give me heat. They won‘t give me the pen~ion an‘ I don‘t know why. It *uld help me buy my eilte and pill. and the other medicines liks Swamp Boot. They won‘t give lt to ne.~