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money den. I stayed dere mighty close on to to‘ years an‘ den I

; went to Tylertown an ‚ hauled cott on to de railr~d ter Mr. Ben

Lamptoi. Mr. Lampton said I was de bea‘ driver of bis team he ever had caze I kep‘ his team fat.

uAtt. I CQD~ back to Miss‘seippi I iriar‘ied a wonan named

Maggie Ransom. We stayed together 52. years. I niver hit her but one tinie. When we was gittin‘ mar‘ied I stopped de preacher right in de ceremony an‘ aid to her, ‘Maggie, iffen you niver call ae a liar I will niver call you on‘ an‘ she said, ‘~im, I won‘t call you a liar.‘ I said, ‘That‘s a bargain‘ an‘ den de preacher went

0x1 wid de weddia‘. Well, one day alte‘ we had been mar‘ied ‘bout
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to‘ years, she ast me how cœie I was so late e~in‘ to supper, an‘

I said I found some work to do fer a white lady, an‘ she said,

that‘s a lis,‘ an‘ right den I raised my han‘ en‘ let her have it right by de side of de head, an‘ she niver called me a liar a~‘in.

No ma‘a, dat is somethin‘ I woi‘t stand fer.

~	~ Ily old lady had seven ohullune dat lived to git growi.

Two of ‘em lived here in Magnolia an‘ de others gone North. Maggie is daid an‘ I live wici my boy Walter an‘ his wits Lena. Dey is mighty good to nis. I owns dis here houa. an‘ to‘ acres ~it dey live wid nte an‘ I gite a Confed‘rate peitsion of to‘ doUais a month. Dat gives me ~y coffee an‘ ‘~cco. I‘se proud I‘se a old so,ler. I seed de n~fl fall when dey was shot but I was not akeered. We et
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