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	Alice Green‘s supposed address led the interviewer to a

cabin ~‘~ith a padlocked front door. A small Negro girl who was

L)1a:Ti.n~r in the adjoining yard admitted, after some coaxing, that

~	knew where Alice could be found. Pointingdown the street,

3h~ said: ~ See dat house wid de sheet hangin‘ out in front. Dat‘s

i:iii~r ~unt Alice lives now.‘1 A few moments later a rap on the door

3_ the house designated was answered by a small, slender Negress;.
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	t? Yes I~iam, I‘m Alice Green, was her solemn response to

t:~e in~uiry. 3he pondered the question of an interview for a 1D~Lent and then, with unsmiling dignity, bade the visitor come In ::~i~CI be seated. Only one room of the dilapidated two~-room shack \7a~ usable for shelter and this room was so dark that lampliglit ~ necessary at 10:00 o‘clock in the morning. lier smoking oil

I:;. -~2 ~ 1111flUS its chimney.

	Â Negro child about two or three years old was Alice‘s s:~i~ c3nlpanion. „ I takes keer 01 little 3allie Liae whilst her ~.:y ~:ruks at a boardin‘ house,Tt she explained. “~$he‘s lots of OD. ~ ior rae.

	“Charles and Milly ~reen was ray daddy and mammy. U~C~T‘S overseer was a man named Green, and dey said he was a ~3r~r:Lul mean sort of man. I never did know ~har It was dey livad ::hen Daddy was borned. Manuny‘s niarster was a lawyer dat
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