Project #-1655	~	Psge ~- 7
Mrs . Genevieve w-.. Chandler	304
Murrells Inlet, S. C.
Ge orge t own Côunty




t,1 didn‘t have~to much to do to Oregon in them dark days.

If I go from i3rookgreen, I go Cap‘n Josh git my mlttment. Anybody bother me I say, ‘I not a run~way niggerl I got mittmentlt ~
~‘Very FUSS girl ~ FUSS one I go with name wuz Teena.

How many girl? Great God! I tell you! FUSS one Teena; next Candis. Candis best looking but Teena duh largesti Go there every Sunday after school. (Oatland Plantation blong to Marse Benjamine Aliston. ) Stay till sunset. Got to have paper. Got to carry you paper. Dem patroller put you cross a logL Beat you to death. I see them beat Ben Sharp. Beat tem till Ben kin hardly git cross fence. Jump over fence give tem last chopL ~atroll jess like road men nowl (Stellal That man ~i n‘ t comingL I got to got Got to cook my supper Cook dem crab -) Bloodt Christi Yes, man. Listen me • Lemme tell you wha t I see wid my eye now t (hera he pri~ed both eyes wide with his ten fingers) If I much of age re ckon they have to kill me I I see ga sh SO LONG (measuring on for e -f Inger ) In my Mama - my own Mama L (aside to Lillie) I shame fore Miss JinnyL If one them driver want you (want big frame gal like you Lilliel) they give you task you CAN‘T DO. You getting this beating not for you task - for you fleshi“

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