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him to do a mean thing in my life, and I never heard him speak a slighting
word of anybody. He don't know nothing, but the Bible and hard work. He
don't go to town. Swearing ain't in him a-tall, I knowed him tuh say one
swear word about twenty years ago. He was getting off of a wagon, and fell
off on his face, and he got up and said 'I'll be damned!'"

"He's never been away from here?"

"Nah, he don't go no where."

"How long have you been on this home place?" The house, the visitor
noticed was fairly new. He estimated the house was about 20 years old. There
was moss on the roof.

"I've been here 6o years. I was up there on the hill." Across the
road, where Bony pointed, was a hill, a bare hill, which looked as if it
once had a house on it. "I was burned out there. Me and Mason there, we
built this house."

"You've never left here?"

"I went out to Texas and stayed four years when I was pretty young,
but the rest of the time I've been here." He wouldn't talk about his
western trip. And he turned the talk to politics, and told how he thought
the farmers needed some sort of help. "Shore I believe they ought to have

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