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him drunk in his life. He knows how to take it. It's a pity these other nigger men and white gentlemens too don't know how. Sam is honest too. That's his religion. He would cut off his right hand before he would sell a fish that wasn't all right. His fish are all breathing and wiggling on his lines. He works every day and night from January 'til June, then stops off in June. In the Summer months he has his fish frys. Don't sell fish in the Summer because it's too hot to keep them. When he has his fish frys, the fish are still alive; that's why they are so good.

"Sam is famous for his fish. He puts out his nets (he don't seine) from January the first 'till the fifteenth of March. Then after that he just hooks and lines. In September he starts back to work. He don't work in the Christmas month though.

"He has certain days to sell his fish in different places. He sells four lines 25c, 50c, 75c, and $1.00 depending on how many and the kind of fish. He has better luck 'catching' at night than he does in the day. The best time is in the full moon. He catches channel cat fish, bream, perch and carp. These are his best sellers, but sucker fish, rock fish, mud cat, eels and any fish that runs in the stream he she' gets 'em. He sho' is lucky and they calls him a expert. If he comes across a tamted fish he gives 'em to the niggers. They hangs around him like 'Grant around Richmond.' The stronger a fish smells the better a nigger likes 'em.

"He has made good money too. He has a car; 'tain't much of a car, just a fish car. He sells his fish in Eufaula Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Thursdays and Fridays he goes out of town. He don't go hisself though; he sends one of his men. They peddle Georgia

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