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work. Sometimes before we got there I had to carry both
these younguns. Then I did farm work, whatever they told
me to do, sometimes I hoed corn, or picked squash an' beans,
or shelled beans for market. I got my dinner and somethin'
to carry home to the other younguns who be at school then,
an' some vegetables. We never was much to eat vegetables
except cabbage or collards boiled with side meat, but
sometimes we got so hungry an' we didn't have nothin' but
vegetables so that learned us to eat most all kinds, like
beans an' such."

She paused as if recalling something and then said;
"One time when John was on the relief a woman came out from
the big town to tell us all what to eat and how to cook it.
I didn't go to the meetin', but I heard about it. What's
the use of thet? Life is just life, an' vegetables just
grow an' we all can cook them. Seems like thet woman didn't
want us to boil our greens with lots of side meat for a
long time! Why they ain't fitten to eat ifen you don't
cook them thataway! And she said the flour dough fried
bread wasn't fitten to eat. I guess she never tasted none
of it. When it's fried in hog fat they just ain't nothin'
any better."

"Another time they wanted to give us clothes for the
younguns an' us too an' lunches fer the younguns goin' to
school. Thet made John awful mad an' he wouldn't take none

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