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Projeot 1885..(1)
	FOLKLORE	Edited by:	I8~
	Sparbanburg, S.C.	R.V. W1111~~
	Distriôi No.4.
May 26, 1937.



STORIES OF EX~..SWTES



	“MOST everybody k~iow my name. You gotta help me, Oh, yeah, dat‘swhat I goes by. It‘s Brack;..dey calls me oie uncle Brack~

-	“Look out, over dan“ said a negro who was standing nearby. “Uncle Brack, you know you is got mo‘ names dan dat.

wpy, everwhar you goes, dey calls you a different naine.“ “Shot up, you sassy-~mouth nigger~“ Uncle Brack waved

his stick as the younger negro moved out of its ~ roach. Uncle Brack walks with two sticks nearly ail the time. He is bent almost double.

	~	“He de greatest nigger rascal a-gwine,“ Uncle l3raok said. ~ “11e jest dream all de tune, and drea~n~ don‘t nebber amount to hi‘ • Dean dreams what he carri es on ‘~id in de daytime, dey is i~that makes him tell so n~ny lies. De idea, talking like I has a different naine everwhar I goes, when I don‘t go nowhar. Why, I can‘t hardly hobble to de sto‘.

	“Dey mus‘ help me. I took down sick in No‘vember. Mr. Rice ~ ont me Ithings • You gov‘mexrb folks sin ‚ t s ont me irnich as Mr. Rice and de good white folks. what likes me. I‘se ba‘wn ten years when Freedom oons out. Bénn seventy-odd years since Freedcm, ain‘t it, Cap?

	“Dr. Jim Gibbs was migh1~r good to me. You sees dat ISse a-gwine about now. Dr. Gibbs ocnie from Ailcen to Union and sot