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down for Christmas?"

"Yes, she and her old man just come down and spent the day.
Did you find your folk all well?"

"No, two of dem wuz sick in bed."

With this much said Uncle Arthur lapsed into silence and they
again turned to me as if ready to resume the conversation.

"Do you have any more children?"

"Yas'um, Missus, I's got two more daughters, Alice and Mary.
Dey done lib in Kansas City, and I's had one son, Earl. He's been
dead for thirty-two years."

"Where is your dog, Slaughter?"

"Well, Missus, since you wuz done ober here before, and made my
picture wid Kayo, a car done runned ober him and killed him. I shore
is glad dat you made our pictur and done brought me one, case I
didn't hab no pictures of Kayo. I's still got my old big "Muffy" cat
though, and also got me twenty hens."

"Say, Missus, what's wrong wid Alabama dat dey don't gib de
old folks no pension?" Here Uncle Arthur chimed in, "Ah done thought
dat's what she wuz doing here wuz to see 'bout you a pension."

"Alabama does pay some of the old people a pension, some of them
in Jackson County get $6.00 a month, but you must make application
in Scottsboro for this."

"Lawse how mercy, I wish I could get $6.00 a month. Den maybe
I wouldn't hab to dig so hard in de ground for a living."

"What time do you go to bed at night?"

"Sometimes I goes to bed 'bout 7:30 and sometimes not 'til 8:30 or
9 o'clock."

Tura said "Papa plays in his playhouse ebery night and sets in
front of de fire in his chair, dat's his chair specially. See, it's
a little low chair, and he's low, so he sets in it all de time. He

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