Interviewer: {NS} Just experiment a little bit with this machine and see if the volume is alright. 166: That's one street go over we lived she lived after that and my daughter {NS} and her husband was raised up together Interviewer: #1 Is that a- # 166: #2 {X} # {NS} {D: for you go on some} {NS} Interviewer: Sure well I don't want to keep #1 you all maybe we can do a little bit of it # 166: #2 {D: I had a car too but they told me that its # it was liable to come {NS} he's liable to come tomorrow and if he does {NS} Interviewer: yes 166: I cuz I fixed my suitcases up yesterday but {NS} mowing my grass yesterday all day Interviewer: {NW} 166: wash to washing clothes. {NW} Interviewer: Alright well now first let me get your {NS} full name Mrs {B} {NS} 166: um {NS} {D: did you want} {B} mrs {B} Interviewer: Well uh mrs both I guess. {NS} Uh and uh and you were born when? {NS} 166: Eight eighteen ninety-two. {NS} Interviewer: Eighteen and ninety-two that's real fine and what date and today is {B} {NS} {B} {D: well I so- say} Happy birthday I guess this might be an unusual thing you could be doing on the date of your {NS} eighty-second birthday. {NS} And so that makes you uh {NS} eighty-two. {NS} 166: {NW} Interviewer: And um {NS} uh where were you born? 166: {B} in Macon. {NS} Interviewer: Right and uh {NS} Your your parents though had lived here before and then had moved {NS} 166: That and my father lived up at Ellaville and my mother lived down here at Leslie. Interviewer: Okay and uh lets see now how far is Ellaville from here approx- 166: It's fifteen miles from #1 Americus. # Interviewer: #2 uh-huh # And uh {NS} alrighty. 166: And I I imagine it's about that far down to Leslie I don't I'm not sure about Interviewer: #1 Alright but # 166: #2 I know it was # fifteen miles it's probably I go up there lots I used to live between Americus and Interviewer: I see 166: Americus and Ellaville Interviewer: #1 Okay and # 166: #2 My doctor was # {NS} I have a doctor who lived up there. Interviewer: Oh I see #1 Well # 166: #2 {X} # Interviewer: What a what a occupation was your father a farmer or? {NS} 166: Yeah he did farm some but he run a meat market a long time. Interviewer: I see and where was that? {NS} 166: Leslie. Interviewer: I see. 166: That's where he died down there at Leslie. Interviewer: uh-huh {NW} Was he born there? {NS} 166: Borned up of Ellaville Interviewer: uh-huh 166: And I don't know how long he's been dead about seventy years I think Interviewer: Seventy? {NS} Well he 166: He he died {NS} he I was twelve years old when he died. Interviewer: I see. 166: That makes about seventy don't it. Interviewer: It surely does. {NS} And what was your um {NS} your mother's maiden name what was her full name? {NS} 166: {D: ellen} {B} {NS} {B} Interviewer: Yes ma'am and your uh {NS} your father's full name. {B} {NS} {B} {NS} and uh {NS} Where uh her parents from uh {NS} around here too? 166: Yes they was all from around here. {NS} Interviewer: Okay {NS} 166: When that war was going on {NS} my granddaddy was in it. {NS} Interviewer: #1 The civil war? # 166: #2 {D: lived on} # both sides uh-huh {NS} Interviewer: Is that right? {NS} 166: {D: One my grandma pa} {B} he had one of his legs {NS} cut off. {NS} And I don't know what happened to my gran {B} He was in bad shape terrible {NS} he didn't come out of it. {NS} Interviewer: Yes 166: In them days when they got out from there they had to go {NS} in the woods and let the family bring them clothes to get the lice off. {NS} change and get lices full of lice. Interviewer: #1 Mercy {X} # 166: #2 I've lived through it # I don't have {NS} Interviewer: Yes sir well do you remember your grandparents? {NS} 166: mm-hmm {NS} Interviewer: How long 166: Grandmother used to stay with us a whole lot and I don't know my granddaddy Interviewer: yes 166: But I remember my grandma cuz she lived longer. Interviewer: Yes ma'am {NS} Okay and um uh where did uh {NS} Where did you go to school and how long did you go to school mrs {B} 166: Well {NS} I didn't never finish school cause Papa died when I was twelve years old and I had to work in the field. Interviewer: I see 166: So I didn't get to finish my education but I went to Leslie. Interviewer: mm-hmm well about how many years uh {NS} off and on were you there or were you just uh 166: I was there the whole time. Interviewer: mm-hmm 166: School was going on. {NS} You know in them days you can't tell. Interviewer: #1 Right. # 166: #2 We didn't # have no grades or nothing you just went and Interviewer: Right. 166: go as far as you could and have to quit so I {NW} if they had a grade I imagine I went through the eighth grade. Interviewer: #1 I see. # 166: #2 See you didn't # have no grades. Interviewer: Right. 166: {X} Interviewer: Well you started probably when you were about six years old? {NS} 166: Yeah Interviewer: mm-kay {NS} And then went on till you were about twelve years old. {NS} Okay {NW} and uh {NS} What about your uh your parents do you remember how much they went to school? {NS} 166: They didn't go much either one of them cause them days you didn't go to school #1 much you had to stay out and work. # Interviewer: #2 Right and and # work that's right on the farm particular #1 didn't you? # 166: #2 Yeah. # {NS} Both of 'em was on the farm too. Interviewer: Right {NS} okay {NS} And uh your grandparents then on both sides were farmers? 166: mm-hmm {NS} Interviewer: Okay {NW} And do you know uh {NS} Where their like did they come from another state way on back your family your fathers family your mothers family do you know uh? {NS} #1 and where they came to Sumter county # 166: #2 {D: I asked somebody} # never did find that out the first I knew of them was when {NS} Mama and Papa {NS} was married you know Interviewer: Yes 166: And that's been so long to Interviewer: Sure. {NS} 166: {NW} But I I {NS} believe they stayed on the farm Interviewer: #1 Yes ma'am. # 166: #2 I know one # night they come from and come over here it might have been all they did. Interviewer: Okay well I want to ask you uh {NS} and where when you all as a child what house do you remember best uh {NW} uh if you all moved from Macon back here did you grow up in the same house? 166: No uh-uh we moved back. mm-hmm {NS} We lived in Leslie and there- there's just old wooden houses. Interviewer: Do you remember the house in Leslie? 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: Well how about telling me about one I want to draw a kind of a sketch of it do you remember what you can kind of #1 tell me about it # 166: #2 It had # four rooms. Interviewer: Okay just like a square then? 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: Like this and there'd be a one here and one here just like that did it have a hall? {NS} 166: No it didn't have no hall. Interviewer: Okay what about out front did it have a {NS} porch? 166: Porch uh-huh Interviewer: Okay {NS} Like that? 166: uh-huh {NS} Interviewer: What about on the back? {NS} 166: Nothing on the back you know then they didn't put them on the back like they do now. Interviewer: Okay and was it up high were there steps up to it? {NS} 166: mm-hmm {NS} Interviewer: Uh what two or three do you remember was it real high? 166: I don't remember you take seventy years Interviewer: #1 That's a pretty good while that's good I can't remember. # 166: #2 {X} # {NS} We moved now after Papa died we moved back right smart Interviewer: #1 Okay and how # 166: #2 working # {NS} Worked in the field. Interviewer: Yes ma'am {NS} What uh um {NS} And all sorts of things in the field? 166: yeah {NS} Interviewer: Cotton and uh 166: Corn peanuts {NS} Things like that. Interviewer: #1 Yes ma'am okay # 166: #2 Then # you didn't get about twenty-five {NS} cents a hundred {NS} pecan {NS} not over forty no way. {NS} Interviewer: How much did you average maybe working in a day when you worked like that? {NS} 166: It wasn't much. #1 I can tell you # Interviewer: #2 {D: Sure then wasn't it} # 166: It'd run about forty and fifty cents a day then. Interviewer: Imagine that. 166: Imagine that but it's true. Interviewer: And people would work for that or 166: #1 mm-mm no uh-uh no. # Interviewer: #2 triple that for an hour now would they? # Alright tell- 166: That's what you paid for picking cotton was anywhere from twenty-five to forty cent and I could pick about two hundred a day. {NS} But uh {NS} when that {NS} when it was {NS} damp or anything like that it would end up heavy but when it was {NS} dried out you couldn't get nothing much Interviewer: mm-hmm 166: seed done dried out. Interviewer: Honestly {NW} Did you have uh how many brothers and sisters I know you have one sister here. 166: Yeah I had uh {NS} two brothers and three sisters {NS} Interviewer: And do they uh others of them near hear are uh {NS} 166: No they're all dead. {NS} Interviewer: #1 Oh # 166: #2 I've # got one brother up here about Buena Vista Interviewer: #1 I see. # 166: #2 that's # the only one. Interviewer: Well were you the youngest or in the middle? 166: I was the oldest that's why it's always so hard on me. Interviewer: Yeah? {NS} 166: And I {NS} had a brother next to me {NS} then sisters next {NS} Interviewer: And what's your sister's name? {NS} {B} {NS} 166: So um {NS} there's five of us you know two boys and three girls. {NS} But my brother my brother's dead. {NS} {NW} Baby brother and baby sister {NS} both of them are younger than we were. Interviewer: Yes 166: they all both of them dead. {NS} Interviewer: I see 166: Both died of the cancer. Interviewer: mm that's terrible. {NS} Uh which rooms were which in this house now was this the kitchen one of these 166: That was a {NS} bedroom up there {NS} and the kitchen was over here. Interviewer: Okay {NS} 166: And I guess the rest of them was bedrooms they didn't have no living rooms then. {NS} Interviewer: Okay bedrooms. {NW} Uh did you use one of them more to sit in than the others do you remember? 166: No you know they didn't have them then. {NS} Just sit in the bedroom. {NS} Interviewer: Yes well which one did you sit in the front one here? 166: mm-mm Interviewer: Or this one? 166: mm Interviewer: Okay and uh you had what furniture in there mrs {B} 166: Just old furniture old time-y furniture and anybody'd be glad to get such as that. {NW} {C: laughs} Interviewer: Antique now wouldn't it be? 166: Just old furniture. Interviewer: Yes but like uh 166: #1 {D: Iron beds} # Interviewer: #2 a bed or # a iron bed. {NS} And uh {NS} Uh Dressers or or where 166: You'd have a dresser with it. Interviewer: uh-huh and uh what other places to keep uh the clothes? {NS} Was there? 166: Closets had closets then all around. Interviewer: Right were they built in or across the #1 corner? # 166: #2 Built in. # Interviewer: Uh on the wall side like this or across the corner? {NS} 166: Just like that one in yonder in mine. {NS} Interviewer: Just straight in like that? {NS} And you call that a closet any other furniture besides a dresser that you kept clothes in do you remember? {NS} 166: Nothing but that. {NS} Trunks we used trunks then more than anything else. Interviewer: Right. {NS} #1 Okay and then # 166: #2 I got a # trunk in here now. {NS} I don't know how old that trunk is my husband had it when he married and we done got the handles off of it but I won't do away with it. Interviewer: Sure 166: He lived to be eight- {NS} eighty my husband lived to be eighty {NS} Seventy-nine I believe Interviewer: Yes ma'am 166: No it wasn't it {NS} I'm wrong {NS} I'm eighty-two and he was {NS} He lived to be eighty-nine. I got that right #1 now. # Interviewer: #2 Well fine # fine and what other furniture did you have in here to sit on? {NS} 166: Just straight chairs. Interviewer: Straight made out of? {NS} 166: There's home made ones you know they made 'em then. Interviewer: Out of wood? 166: Yeah and they lasted too. Interviewer: With that uh what kind of bottom? {NS} 166: Oh I don't know what you call it thing but anyway it's made out of um {NS} what is the name of that stuff? {NS} Interviewer: Cane? 166: Cane that's what it was. Interviewer: I've seen those I seen something looks like they're made out of string sometimes too {NS} you know kind of laced around. {NS} Okay {NS} And uh this didn't there were not another floor just four rooms there's nothing upstairs here? 166: No no upstairs. Interviewer: Okay {NW} and uh if you call even though this was a bedroom did you refer to it to distinguish it from this room {NW} or this one back here as the as the place where you sat what how did you say go into the {NS} what did you call that uh separated from this on the front bedroom 166: They're separated Yeah if this was the front. Interviewer: uh-huh but you #1 call them # 166: #2 To me # that was the front. Interviewer: mm-kay did you call that the front bedroom or uh {NW} uh you didn't say a living #1 room # 166: #2 Well I # tell you the truth we didn't have no living rooms. Interviewer: Right 166: The beds was in all the rooms #1 cuz you had to # Interviewer: #2 Sure. # 166: have them for the children Interviewer: #1 you see? # Interviewer: #2 Right. # 166: They just bedrooms that's what I call them. Interviewer: #1 Okay but you didn't call it # 166: #2 And we'd just sit down and # have chairs and anyone that want to sit down would sit #1 down. # Interviewer: #2 Right. # and uh you didn't have uh {NS} Uh anything like this piece of furniture then in there? {NS} 166: I lived in Leslie 'til I was {NS} married I married when I was eighteen. {NS} Interviewer: I see 166: Then I moved up here {NS} we he my husband lived up here both. {NS} Between here and uh {NS} between here and Shiloh out there. Interviewer: I see. 166: And so I been a member of Shiloh church fifty-two years. Interviewer: And what denomination is that Mrs. #1 {X} # 166: #2 Baptist. # Interviewer: I see. 166: But when I moved up here {NS} put my letter in down here at central baptist. Interviewer: And your husband was a baptist too? 166: Yeah he was #1 baptist too # Interviewer: #2 uh-huh # 166: He was member of the same church out yonder {X} Interviewer: Did you all grow up together? 166: uh-uh Interviewer: #1 No when did you meet him? # 166: #2 We just # met {NS} at a party. Interviewer: Is that right? 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: Well hmm okay I need to how was this house heated? {NS} 166: Fireplace {NS} that's what we call fireplace and that's what they called them then your fireplace and {NW} Cut your wood {NW} Interviewer: Burn wood 166: get that splinters {NS} Interviewer: Uh yeah what? {NS} 166: Splinters starters you know what #1 fat fat wood # Interviewer: #2 Fat splinters? # right. {NS} 166: And to starts a fire as well. {NS} Interviewer: And what did you pour on it did you pour something on it? 166: Uh-uh that's what we use was splinters and you put spl- and light the splinters and {NW} put that there and put you some dry wood on top of it. Interviewer: right 166: and {NS} and then oak wood. Interviewer: mm-hmm 166: and so that oak wood was really good too. That's what we used to iron by. Interviewer: How many fireplaces did you have in say #1 this house? # 166: #2 two # Interviewer: #1 two? # 166: #2 two # Interviewer: One in the 166: one out in the middle {NS} Interviewer: Oh like here and then over here? 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: Okay and what {NS} was it that went out the top to take the smoke out? {NS} 166: Wasn't nothing the smoke just went on up through. Interviewer: Uh but was it what did you call that like 166: #1 Chimney. # Interviewer: #2 this # Okay {NS} And uh what do you call this or what did you used to #1 call this? # 166: #2 That's a {X} # {D: hearth} Interviewer: #1 Okay # 166: #2 {D: hearth} # {NS} #1 That's what # Interviewer: #2 And # 166: we called it then I don't know what to call it now and fireplace too #1 {D: call it fireplace X} # Interviewer: #2 Yes ma'am yes ma'am # {NS} And what about something that's uh stuck back in there that you laid the wood across? {NS} 166: What was them things? {NS} It was iron. {NS} Interviewer: Iron. 166: Uh-huh with handles up this way to hold the wood back there's iron this way and then up this way. Interviewer: yes. 166: I done forgot what you call that. Interviewer: Uh and did you hear call any of these things maybe a {NS} uh and iron dog iron fire iron 166: Dog iron I reckon I fire iron neither one I don't that's what it was for to put your wood on {NS} to keep it from being flat on {NS} rolling out. Interviewer: Do you remember hearing it called fire dog ever? {NS} 166: That might've been it. {NS} It's something like that I can't tell you exactly you know that's been {NW} seventy {NS} been eighty years no seventy years. Interviewer: Seventy years more than yes ma'am and this piece up here you call the? {NS} 166: {D: something} {NS} Mantel. Interviewer: Okay and do you remember any old words for that {NS} besides that? 166: the mantel. Interviewer: {D: mandola} {NS} 166: Then I don't know what to call them now I still call them #1 mantel. # Interviewer: #2 {D: mandola} # That's probably what they're still called. {NS} Okay and what about a big piece of wood that you put in the back to keep the biggest log in there? 166: That'd be oak wood. Interviewer: uh-huh and did you call it um {NS} uh {NS} uh a {NS} back log or anything like that you just said it's a big? {NS} 166: We used to just call it oak wood that's what you made the fire w- Interviewer: #1 Yes ma'am. # 166: #2 {D: with well that was} # we used to call it oak wood. Interviewer: #1 Okay and what would # 166: #2 It was oak # so you know when green #1 timber # Interviewer: #2 yes # And uh what did you call a piece of it when you bring in bring in some {NS} 166: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Logs? # 166: I don't know what to #1 call it right now. # Interviewer: #2 would you say some # some logs? {NS} 166: All I know we just called it {NS} wood Interviewer: #1 okay # 166: #2 just wood # Interviewer: okay 166: Go get some wood and put it on the fire that's what they used to say. {NS} Interviewer: alright {NW} and uh {NS} what about that uh {NS} black stuff that forms in the chimney what do you #1 call that? # 166: #2 That's smoke # Interviewer: {NS} #1 okay and that # 166: #2 Smoke # it comes from the wood. Interviewer: Right and if it sticks on the side of it 166: mm-hmm it's on the sides and back too. Interviewer: Yes 166: I used to whitewash {NS} right in the edges there you know and over the {NS} the top of it then {NS} the back'd be plum black. Interviewer: okay and they uh {NS} If you'd uh the children we playing around it got some of it on you'd say oh look you've got what on you? {NS} 166: Just playing around it? Interviewer: Yes 'm and then if they got their hands in there and got that black stuff on them you'd say they got? 166: You just get nasty. Interviewer: Right you're #1 getting # 166: #2 Right. # Interviewer: {NS} uh did you call that soot? #1 or # 166: #2 That's # smut we used to call it smut. Interviewer: Smut okay 166: I don't know what to call it now now I'm telling you the old word. Interviewer: Yes ma'am well tell me both of 'em then any that you remember or you #1 Heard a long time ago # 166: #2 Well that was # smut. Interviewer: Yes ma'am okay {NW} And uh let's talk about the furniture in this room for a minute then you tell me you didn't have a this piece of furniture in the old house what do you call this now? {NS} 166: I call it a settee. Interviewer: Okay {NW} And uh 166: And that's a coffee table. Interviewer: Yes 'm and you call that a? 166: That goes with this a chair. Interviewer: Yes ma'am {NW} And uh what about in the uh bedroom what furniture do you have in the bedroom now? 166: Two beds and dresser and {NS} Interviewer: What about 166: Washtand they used to call 'em washtand you know. Interviewer: right 166: That's what I Interviewer: and you had a big bowl and pitcher? 166: Yeah a long time ago we did and my daughter that died got that. {NS} I moved {NS} Interviewer: yeah 166: I gave it to her and I guess her husband still got it he's married again I don't know whether he's got it or not. Interviewer: mm-hmm What about a piece of furniture that's just a series of drawers stacked up do you have something like that? {NS} Not with a a dresser has a mirror over it #1 doesn't it? # 166: #2 mm-hmm # Interviewer: What about one that doesn't have a mirror over it it's ju- 166: Chest of drawers. Interviewer: Yes ma'am and uh {NS} they uh {NS} all of the {NS} the things in the house the chairs or tables or beds you call that what? 166: Rocking chairs are cuz rocking and the other would be straight chairs Interviewer: Yes ma'am and uh if you say if someone is going to buy things to put in their house you say well they're going to buy a lot of new? {NS} 166: Furniture. Interviewer: Okay and uh {NS} uh do you remember any uh {NS} any piece of furniture if uh maybe it had now but maybe they used to have that was not built in like a closet but something that was a loose piece that could be moved around like a piece of furniture to put clothes 166: Wardrobes Interviewer: #1 Okay # 166: #2 {D: and you sorta} # make 'em you know just out of wood. Interviewer: #1 Yes 'm. # 166: #2 And you # take 'em and roll 'em have 'em put rollers under Interviewer: Yes 'm. {NS} 166: roll 'em. Interviewer: Okay and if a house had a sort of uh {NS} a little space right up under the roof where you could maybe store things? 166: I have a it in there {X} {NS} my room in there now. Interviewer: What do you call that? {NS} 166: Chairs chairs where you put things {NS} Interviewer: Yes {NW} 166: This room here that has a chairs too. Interviewer: Okay and what about is there a place which you can pull down in the ceiling and go up above? 166: Yeah right in there. Interviewer: What do you call that space up there? {NS} 166: What do you ca- {NS} Upstairs. {NS} Interviewer: Okay #1 What about attic? # 166: #2 {D: thats} # {NS} That's where you go in you know if anything happens up there Interviewer: #1 Yes # 166: #2 that's # {X} {NW} Now what do you call that? Interviewer: Uh is it attic I heard the word attic #1 used. # 166: #2 It must # be attic. Interviewer: Okay. {NS} 166: Go right in here Interviewer: #1 mm-hmm # 166: #2 {D: they were} # working on my house when I moved here {NS} that's where they went up and down. Interviewer: Right or a loft {NS} #1 or a garret? # 166: #2 I guess it could # be called a loft. Interviewer: Yes but you don't remember one word more than another 166: uh-uh Interviewer: Okay and the place where you cook is the? {NS} 166: Kitchen. {NS} Interviewer: And what about a little room off the kitchen where you might store canned goods or extra #1 dishes # 166: #2 {D: Well} # there's pantry it's in the kitchen. Interviewer: Okay {NW} and what would you call old {NS} maybe worthless furniture implements maybe just things that you {NS} uh might {NS} throw out or want to get rid of you'd say I'm going to get rid of all this {NS} 166: Something you doesn't want thr- {C: laughs} Interviewer: Yes 'm mm-hmm 166: You just want to get rid of #1 {D: is all I know} # Interviewer: #2 uh-huh # Junk or #1 trash # 166: #2 {D: That's right junk} # Interviewer: #1 okay. # 166: #2 I'm gonna # rid of some of this junk. {NS} And that's what me and my sisters been doing getting up different things and throwing them #1 {D: away now I} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 166: got some stuff to throw away there #1 now. # Interviewer: #2 That's # a big job isn't it. {NW} Okay well what about an a little old or room somewhere where you keep things that you don't really use but you're reluctant to throw #1 away? # 166: #2 I don't # have that. {NS} Interviewer: Well do you know know what I'm talking about? {NS} You mean just maybe the back of a room #1 what # 166: #2 {D: I don't know} # Interviewer: what would that be called? 166: That'd used to be called a utility room wasn't it? Interviewer: Okay or maybe just a junk #1 room. # 166: #2 {X} # junk room. Interviewer: Okay 166: I have one back here but {NS} one of my tubs in this other room back there Interviewer: #1 Yes ma'am # 166: #2 {D: My sister} # she had a tub and I {NS} mine's around here and I have a shower. {NS} Interviewer: Okay {NW} and what do you say talking about the daily house work you say every morning a woman has to? {NW} 166: Make up the beds and cook breakfast and wash dishes and then go to starting about the lunch Interviewer: {C: sigh laugh thing} Okay and when you talking about all the things you do to make the house neat you say well {NW} I did this yesterday but the place is dirty and I'm gonna have to? {NS} 166: I used to could say it when I had children but now nobody help #1 me to get it dirty. {C: chuckles} # Interviewer: #2 Right okay. # {NS} But do you say to uh to clean up or tidy up or ready up what #1 {X} # 166: #2 {D: Wack} # 'em up that's it Interviewer: #1 {X} # 166: #2 {D: What I} # say now. Interviewer: Okay {NW} a long time ago your mother might have said well it's time to {NS} 166: Get an order {NS} um {NS} mop mm What do you call them things you put your soaps in? {NS} That's what we used to scrub with scrub the floors #1 with. # Interviewer: #2 mm # 166: didn't have no such as this then. Interviewer: #1 A car {X} # 166: #2 Just regular # old {NS} floor {NS} and nothing on it. {NS} Interviewer: Would 166: Well then you didn't know what it was had something on it Interviewer: right no carpet 166: but um {NS} {X} {NS} that's what it is. {NS} Wet it good put your soap and water {D: butter we used to use butter as} {NS} Interviewer: #1 I can't {X} # 166: #2 take a mop # take a mop {NS} {NW} {X} get in there and {NS} do just the way you {X} Interviewer: yes 166: then you get some water and broom and rise it then you get a cloth and wipe it up Interviewer: After you wash it you get some other water and do what? {NS} 166: rinse it Interviewer: mm-hmm {NS} Okay it made the boards real white didn't it when it was washed that way was that the #1 white # 166: #2 And you # know there's half that then because you #1 {D: done with a whole lot of junk} # Interviewer: #2 {X} yes # No dust like rugs {X} {NW} Okay and uh but before you mop you might take something and {NS} 166: You sleep it out Interviewer: With what what do you use? {NS} 166: Broom just broom Interviewer: Okay 166: then you put your what your {NS} scrub with you put it in the water {NS} Interviewer: yes 166: likes {NS} {D: poly-X} and things like that you put it in the water and {NS} put it all over the floor and take your mop and go over that. {NS} That's the way we used to do old times now but now {NS} I could just go over {NS} with a mop now and and just {NS} in the kitchen and {NS} the bathroom and this little hall here and here I have to vacuum. Interviewer: Yes {NS} okay and w- {NS} usually on mondays women would say they had to do #1 their? # 166: #2 It's # wash day. Interviewer: Okay and on tuesday? {NS} 166: Tuesday is ironing day. {NS} When you wasn't in the fields when you was in the fields you didn't {NW} you had to wash whenever you could. Interviewer: Yes {NS} #1 And # 166: #2 Wait till it # rain to wash Interviewer: {NW} {C: laughs} You had water. 166: and stay in the fields stay in the fields and work. {NS} And you take a rainy day to wash you had to wash outdoors. Interviewer: Yes {NS} #1 {X} # 166: #2 When it's too # wet I mean to go go and pick old cotton and things like #1 that # Interviewer: #2 I see # 166: {NS} you do your washing that morning and then go to the field that evening. Interviewer: If it cleared up? 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: Is that the way you say that #1 {D: the weather terms mm-hmm.} # 166: #2 {D: yeah that's the way it does when we were done.} # Interviewer: {NW} Okay and if you go from the first floor of a house up to the second floor you have to go up the {NS} 166: Stairs. Interviewer: mm-hmm you say stairs rather than stair way or {NS} 166: I haven't got a stairway here never have had #1 one. # Interviewer: #2 Okay # {NW} and uh {NS} 166: When I was living out in the country that time I had a big old six room house and a hall and a big wide porch {NS} front and a big wide one in the back screened in I lived up there at Shiloh. {NS} Do you have you ever been by Shiloh? Interviewer: No ma'am {NS} 166: It's right uh se- first second house on the other side of {NS} on the other side of Shiloh. {NS} We lived there for fifty {NS} two years. Interviewer: I see and you moved here then when uh 166: I sold out sold out the farm {NS} timber land and everything. Interviewer: Yes 166: moved here {NS} I couldn't stay out there by myself and I couldn't see about the timber you get somebody else to {NW} sell your timber by the {NS} load {NS} they is liable to take a load off and sell it and you wouldn't never know about it so I just couldn't see about it. Interviewer: Sure. 166: I didn't get what I really ought to have got out of it but I got rid of it. {NS} Interviewer: Well did you have any other do you remember any other words for a porch to distinguish if it was on the front or the back or screened? {NS} Or what about one that was up on the the up above this on uh you remember anything like that a porch up maybe on the second floor? {NS} 166: I know my {NS} daughter and them got them a kind in Denver Colorado that's where my baby go to live. Interviewer: mm-hmm 166: They got 'em up stairs yeah but I don't know what to call them. Interviewer: Maybe just another porch have you ever heard #1 veranda? # 166: #2 No the # porch I meant imagine up over there. Interviewer: Yes {NW} okay and if the door is {NW} open and it's getting clo- getting cold you might tell someone go over and? {NS} 166: Shut the door. {NW} Interviewer: And what do you call the those boards on the outside of this house uh you know the {NS} ones that are {NS} you know s- stacked up to make the wall {NS} like wooden houses are made out of {NS} say it's not a brick house it's made of? {NS} 166: Wood. Interviewer: uh-huh and do you call the boards anything weather weather boa- 166: Weather boarding uh-huh {NS} okay That's what you call that. Interviewer: Weather board rather than flatboard or siding? {NS} 166: Some of it's siding you have to use that siding in a lot of places #1 places. # Interviewer: #2 Oh # that's that when it's uh {NS} uh made composition. {NW} Okay {NS} and uh {NS} If you were were trying to repair something {NS} with a hammer you would {NS} say {NW} well I've gotta get a hammer and a nail and do what? {NS} 166: Nail it in whatever you had to was tore up and you had to fix back. Interviewer: Okay and if you were going downtown uh and you were going to be the person that uh {NS} doing the {NS} the thing behind the wheel you'd say well I am going to {NS} 166: #1 I don't # Interviewer: #2 What # 166: drive though. Interviewer: Okay but if uh {NW} {NS} if someone else did it uh took you downtown you'd say well yesterday she? {NS} 166: Went to town. Interviewer: Yes and and if you want to say she went in her car she? {NS} 166: I never did learn how to drive I sold my car here about {NS} first of the year. Interviewer: I see. 166: Sister had one {NS} we'd go back and forth in hers but she's not able to she's not able to drive. Interviewer: I see and if uh someone uh {NS} you want to say someone uh went in the car rather than they walked you would say well she yesterday today she's going to drive down town yesterday she how would you say that she? 166: Walked. {NS} Interviewer: Well but if she went in the car you'd say 166: Ride. {NS} Interviewer: She what? 166: Ride. {NS} Interviewer: Uh yesterday she but she did the driving you'd say she what? {NS} yester- today she drives but yesterday she? 166: Walks. Interviewer: And and well she went in the car you'd say drove? 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: #1 {D: uh would you} # 166: #2 She drove # downtown. Interviewer: Okay and what about if it's somebody who every day at a certain time {NW} does that you'd say I watch her and the {NS} everyday for years she has {NS} done that going in {NS} 166: Came home. Interviewer: Yeah #1 and she # 166: #2 {D: I got out there} # {NS} tuesday morning I believe {NS} walked up town. {NS} Interviewer: um 166: I walk up town lots it's good for you. Interviewer: Sure that's fine well would how would you say drive there if you used it with a she has {NS} uh would you say she has driven or she has drove or or? 166: She's a good driver. Interviewer: uh which one of those words would you use would you be more likely to say she has driven everyday or she has drove everyday or what? {NS} 166: I don't know {NS} you know was there wasn't no cars when I was coming along #1 long time # Interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 166: ago but now I believe I believe say ride. Interviewer: Okay {NW} alright and uh the top part of the house is called the? {NS} {D: just you know just the top} 166: {D: top covering} {NS} Interviewer: Okay a ro- 166: Roof roof. Interviewer: uh-huh {NW} and uh what about a place where the the like over there there's a place where the roof goes down like this and then another one comes down like this what would you call that part #1 {D: in the middle?} # 166: #2 The top of the # porch. Interviewer: Okay {NW} and uh if there's a place where the roof is joined in would you #1 use # 166: #2 And that's where it # is right there. Interviewer: Yes {NS} okay {NW} 166: It leaks and down on the lower side over there too #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} {C: breath laugh} # 166: I called a fellow today to come Interviewer: And fix 166: to see if he could find out where it was this evening Interviewer: uh-huh 166: fixed it once and {NS} So I said I was going to call them but I won't have time I don't expect before I go off. Interviewer: Well uh what do you call a little building out on the farm that's used for storing wood? 166: Smoke house. {NS} and you use it for meat {D: you get a little-} Interviewer: Meat. 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: Right {NW} 166: That's what we use out in the country. Interviewer: What about a place where you might store tools or something it might be on the side of the barn? 166: Well that was a little {NS} we used to have one out in the country. {NS} That was a gear house we called it a gear house we had to key to knew which gear #1 {D: you know. } # Interviewer: #2 Okay # {NW} and uh 166: I have to think a lot. Interviewer: Sure well seventy years might take a little thinking. {NW} Or what other {NS} uh little buildings would you have out on the farm? {NS} 166: Car shelters. {NS} Interviewer: Okay did you have a indoor bathroom back then? {NS} mm-hmm you 166: We didn't when I was growing up and all but after they got {NS} come in Interviewer: #1 Right you # 166: #2 we put in a shower. # Interviewer: put one in okay well when it was outside what did you call it? {NS} 166: me see. {NS} What did we call that? {NS} Go to the {NS} a lot of time we'd call it johnny. Interviewer: The johnny when it was outside I heard johnny a lot inside I didn't know that was sometimes an outside word. 166: Sometimes they do though. Interviewer: #1 uh-huh # 166: #2 Long time # ago they I got to go to the johnny I had teachers that stayed with me {NS} Interviewer: yes 166: They like to say well I just got to go to the johnny. Interviewer: Okay and um {NS} what about outhouse or {NS} toilet? #1 {NW} # 166: #2 Well # now that could be outhouse called outhouse #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Okay # Well if it's toilet is that more likely to be inside? {NS} Or privy what about privy do you remember using that word? {NS} No? {NS} Outhouse or the johnny huh? 166: Yeah the johnny I believe I'd I'd just say johnny. {NS} #1 {X are} # Interviewer: #2 Okay # 166: many things {NS} Interviewer: If uh if somebody comes to you and just starts telling you everything {NW} uh bad that's happened to them and you feel like well they're not thinking about anybody for themselves {NW} and uh {NS} you might say well I've {NS} have a problem I have uh {NS} you're not the only person that has troubles I #1 what? # 166: #2 We # all have troubles. Interviewer: Okay {NW} uh {NS} and uh. 166: And you can look around and see that some of it's worse than others. Interviewer: Yes ma'am okay well what about {NS} if there's something strange outside {NW} and you wanted to ask someone if they were aware of it you might say what? {NS} Did you? 166: Did you know anything about it? Interviewer: #1 Okay are and did you just # 166: #2 {D: or something like that. } # Interviewer: Did I I thought I heard something did you {NS} 166: I never did do that. Interviewer: Yeah? {NW} #1 Okay # 166: #2 I always # try to find out go #1 see it. # Interviewer: #2 yes # alright and if uh {NS} if there was a program or a speech or a a a sermon and you want to know if someone was there you might say {NS} did you go to hear {NS} 166: Go to church. Interviewer: Yes and did you {NS} hear what somebody said? {NS} Did uh uh I just want you to say that for me the way you would if you're asking somebody you know? {NW} uh if you want to know whether or not they uh {NS} they listened when somebody was talking you might say did you {NS} #1 hear what # 166: #2 Go to # sunday school? Interviewer: Yes 'm #1 and did you # 166: #2 go to # church Interviewer: Okay and use the word hear for me in a sentence just say it just how would you say do you did you h- what he said? {NS} 166: Yes we we talk about that some we'd talk about the preacher you know Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh # 166: #2 The # sermon he preached and what he preached on. Interviewer: Okay 166: And here about two weeks ago he preached good and then he preached on um {NS} divorces. Interviewer: Yes ma'am {NS} 166: And he preached on that he {D: um that} parents was to blame {NS} for a lot of this that's going on now. Interviewer: {NW} Okay and uh if uh if somebody says well {NW} I go every sunday because I like to what the preacher I like to? 166: You like the preacher. Interviewer: Like to? 166: It's in sunday school I pray by my sunday school class and teacher too but she's been out now some little bit she had a baby. Interviewer: Okay {NW} Uh and if uh I ask you if you know a person and you might say no I don't know him but I've {NS} 166: Heard of him. Interviewer: Okay {NS} and uh {NS} if some uh friend came back into town and another friend has been visiting with him you might uh {NS} might ask have you seen him yet? {NW} And you might say no I haven't? {NS} 166: Yeah I've done that a lot of times. Interviewer: Okay how would you say it if you want to say I've {NS} 166: I haven't seen him. Interviewer: Okay {NW} and uh {NS} uh if uh if something you do everyday {NS} you might uh yes I {NS} like uh what are some 166: I done it. Interviewer: Everyday? Okay uh I did it yesterday I {NS} 166: Done something else. Interviewer: #1 and uh # 166: #2 {X} # Interviewer: {NS} and uh {NS} if you're asking about somebody across the street and you want to know if they do that you might say well there's so and so does she or {NS} how would you ask that? {NS} Does she water her flowers everyday would you say? 166: Yeah something like that. Interviewer: Okay 166: Which we all do when the weather's- Interviewer: Sure {NS} okay {NW} if a man lets his farm maybe get all run down and he doesn't seem to care you might say to someone who asks {NS} uh I don't really know but he just {NS} to care he? 166: Just {NS} don't keep his terraces up and things like that. Interviewer: Okay {NS} and uh 166: That's what uh my husband used to do he'd work on terraces and {NS} right after christmas to keep 'em from washing. Interviewer: yes 'm {NS} 166: That's what we'd call them terrace- Interviewer: terraces {D: yes ma'am} And uh 166: Keeping the grass out too working on keeping the grass out Interviewer: mm-kay {NS} and uh if uh if someone asks you something and you say well I believe such and such but I'm {NS} how would you finish that when you want to 166: #1 I doubt it. # Interviewer: #2 you want to say # Okay {NW} um {NS} 166: {D: You gotta battle dance} Interviewer: No ma'am you doing fine this is just what I need. {NS} 166: That's when we find out that we turned the young people the young {NS} this generation and the other Interviewer: #1 Both # 166: #2 {D: I'ma} # say two #1 generations and # Interviewer: #2 yes ma'am both # 166: we was raised up hard {NW} and the next generation began to pick up and now they done got to the limit #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Just everything is too easy. {NW} Okay you might say you live in a {NW} a frame {NS} 166: mm-hmm {NS} Interviewer: frame? 166: House. Interviewer: And if there are two of them you'd say there are two frame? {NS} 166: Apartments. Interviewer: Okay or just use the same word just two? {NS} Hou- {NS} One house or two {NS} 166: I say two apartments and they'd be right Interviewer: Oh I don't mean in the same building like that building and that one over there there's one house here's one house and over there are two? {NS} Hou- {NS} 166: Houses Interviewer: Yes ma'am that's what I wanted just your pronunciation that's fine. {C: 166 laughs} {NW} Okay and the big building behind the house where maybe hay is stored or where the cattle what do you call that? {NS} 166: Barn. Interviewer: {NS} Okay and the building you store corn in is a? 166: That's a barn all connected. Interviewer: #1 Okay # 166: #2 That's # what we had out yonder just a barn Interviewer: okay 166: and there was cows and hogs and mules too. Interviewer: And they put #1 corn in there? # 166: #2 and pop that # corn in big {NS} um {NS} rooms you know have it sealed up. {NS} Weather boarded in there wasn't no sealing but have it where the s- where the stock couldn't get to it. Interviewer: Yes ma'am what about the upper part of the barn? {NS} 166: Well a lot of times they have a loft up there and put hay up there. Interviewer: Yes ma'am okay. What about a {NS} a place for they hay when they {NS} left it out in the field for a while when they mounded it up do you re- {NS} 166: To get it in if it went to rain they'd tell you cause they didn't want to stay out in the rain. Interviewer: Right and um {NS} if they get the barn maybe full of hay {NS} how do they keep it eh do they try to stack it? 166: Yes they stack uh stacked it. Interviewer: Into what what do they call that? 166: In the barn that's still the barn all all of that was barn what we had out in the country Interviewer: Okay 166: {D: Put your} {NS} Now we had different places to put dried peas and things {NS} but that was a regular barn I think Interviewer: Okay 166: on a pasture. Interviewer: alright. {NW} And uh do you remember any sort of a thing that they put hay on {NS} uh out maybe before they took it to the barn or maybe the barn was full with crops like this and they pile hay in it? 166: {D: In rooms } so it would dry out. Interviewer: What did they call that do you remember? 166: Drying the hay out Interviewer: Okay and what did they call that thing that it sat on do you remember? 166: Crosspiece Interviewer: What? 166: Crosspiece Interviewer: A crosspiece okay {NS} and uh {NS} um {NS} The horse as you said stayed in the {NS} 166: #1 Barn. # Interviewer: #2 in the barn # too. {NS} 166: #1 Cows # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 166: was in the barn too. Interviewer: And where were the cows uh milked? {NS} 166: Stalls. Interviewer: okay #1 Did the what the # 166: #2 {D: I had} # Had stalls for mine. {NS} Interviewer: So did you help milk? {NS} 166: Have milk? Interviewer: Help yeah. 166: I milk with five cows {NS} Interviewer: #1 Is that right everyday # 166: #2 everyday. # {NS} Yeah I've sold milk and butter and eggs. {NS} Everything like that. Interviewer: mm okay Do you remember any place outside where the cows were milked maybe in hot weather when it was too hot to go in the barn do you remember? 166: Yeah they'd have a shelter. Interviewer: #1 A shelter? # 166: #2 Have # have troughs put the feed in. Interviewer: Okay {NS} And what about a place where you kept uh the pigs and hogs? {NS} 166: We kept them in a pasture {NS} but we'd have a place built in for them to come in and eat. Interviewer: uh-huh and what did you call that oh that was in the a barn you mean? {NS} 166: mm {NS} Interviewer: Okay {NS} What about uh uh {NS} a pen what you do for hogs {NS} or pigs did you ever have a small enclosure? 166: Yeah we separate 'em you know when they's gonna find pigs. Interviewer: And what did you call that? {NS} 166: {D: I pen her in.} Interviewer: okay {NW} And what about any kind of a place a long time ago you know before they had refrigeration {NW} um maybe they had a certain place that they kept milk and butter. 166: They they used to make the things and line 'em and fix 'em in wood and make make up wood just as we had one one time {NW} build it about this wide {NS} lined it inside you know and then put the wood lining or tin lining whatever they put in there. {NW} We just have to set our milk and butter down in there you couldn't keep it like you can now. Interviewer: Yes ma'am what did they call that do you remember a word? 166: Ice box. {NS} Interviewer: #1 Okay you had ice that you put in? # 166: #2 {X} # Yeah you {X} {NS} bring the ice out sell the ice Interviewer: Yes 'm 166: carry it out in the country about {NS} once and twice and three times a week. Interviewer: What about a place maybe out uh where water ran that they might set milk 166: #1 Gulley. # Interviewer: #2 {D: or butter. } # {NS} A what? 166: Gulley. Interviewer: And w- do you remember doing that before you had even ice? {NS} #1 No? # 166: #2 {X} # {NS} You talk about the ice being used? Interviewer: Uh no um I'm talking about maybe out on the farm before you had ice. {NS} uh W- was there a place that you set uh uh {NS} m- milk down in #1 {D: a stream} # 166: #2 Put it down # in a well Interviewer: uh-huh #1 Oh # 166: #2 Rope on it # on it tie it in a well Interviewer: #1 oh uh-huh # 166: #2 we done that a lot of times # {NS} when I was growing up. Interviewer: Okay {NW} and the area around the barn is generally called the what? {NS} 166: I don't know what you call that. Interviewer: Uh what about uh a lot? or a #1 barnyard? # 166: #2 {D: well you can't} # have a lot because we did have a lot to build on to it you know? {NW} So they could come out in the sunshine #1 out of the barn. # Interviewer: #2 Yes 'm. # Alright and what about the place where you let them go out to graze what did you call #1 that? # 166: #2 Oh we had # pastures then. {NS} Interviewer: Okay and the undesirable grass in a {NS} uh uh cotton field that you have to get rid of what what different kind #1 gra- what? # 166: #2 {D: Bermuda grass} # {D: Bermuda} Interviewer: #1 What else you remember any? # 166: #2 {X} # {NS} Oh what's the name of that that old stuff the roots get in there Interviewer: Johnson grass is that #1 is it yes # 166: #2 Johnson grass. # Interviewer: {NS} They were the worst? 166: Oh that was the worst. {NS} You dig it up by the roots and the next day you come back and it'd be Interviewer: Back again. 166: Back again. Interviewer: mm-kay {NW} and what do you call all those uh {NS} any other different kinds of weeds do you remember chopping out that one did uh {NS} in the garden or out in the cotton? {NS} 166: Uh sand spurs. Interviewer: okay that was 166: They'd stick you to death. Interviewer: Right okay and the {NS} cotton and corn grow in a? {NS} 166: Field. {NS} Interviewer: Okay and uh do you have any uh words that mean uh {NS} a larger or a smaller {NS} uh {NS} area like well that's just a little something of cotton {NS} 166: Little patch. Interviewer: Okay 166: had me a little patch then cuz we had an allowance so they can't have much cotton. Interviewer: #1 That's right. # 166: #2 Used to # we could plant much cotton as we wanted to and peanuts too. Interviewer: yes 'm Is peanuts restricted now too? 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: I didn't {NS} okay. {NS} Uh what about fences mrs {B} what about different kinds of fences? 166: Well you'd you'd cut the rails so you get barb wire but used to old times. Interviewer: What kind of wire? 166: You could buy uh {NS} wire to fence wire Interviewer: yes 'm 166: and put it up. {NS} But in olden times you went to the woods and cut {D: you know} {NS} logs up {NS} and made your own fence out of #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 166: {NS} Interviewer: #1 and # 166: #2 That's # {NS} that's wood Interviewer: Uh-huh and did you uh uh {NS} did you ever hear that called a worm fence that rail fence that no? {NS} Okay uh what would you call a kind of wire fence that if you climbed over it you might {NS} snag your clothes on? {NS} 166: uh Interviewer: eh {NS} 166: It has one thing to it {NS} wha- {NS} Interviewer: Barb- {NS} Barb something {NS} 166: Oh shoot I don't remember mine {NS} there's plum many kinds {NS} it has these old stickers in it Interviewer: Yes 'm is it barbed wire? {NS} Barbed or 166: Barb wire Interviewer: #1 {D: Barb put on} # 166: #2 {D: mm-hmm put on} # Interviewer: #1 How how do you say it? # 166: #2 {D: top of the} # Barb wire Interviewer: Okay {NS} And um {NS} what about uh {NS} pailing fence or uh {NS} #1 Any # 166: #2 Passing. # {NS} Passing it up is that what you need? Interviewer: Oh well I was wondering about different name for different kind of snake and rider fence you never heard of? 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: okay {NS} And uh intervals on a wire fence I know you have to put something upright on a nail 166: Post Interviewer: Okay {NS} 166: #1 {D: I want to post} # Interviewer: #2 Yeah # yes 166: Maybe post put in then {NS} throw your wire up on it. Interviewer: Okay And what about if you want to make a hen start laying something that you put in the nest to fool her? {NS} Do you remember 166: Yeah I used to let the {NS} my sutter hen and had s- {NS} some {NS} rotten eggs left you know something in there so I put them in there and take some fresh ones out. {NS} Interviewer: mm-kay what did you call that do you remember if you put 'em {NS} Did you ever see on made out of anything #1 not a real egg. # 166: #2 Oh yeah # {NS} Made out of {NS} it's not plastic it's white stuff Interviewer: #1 The same thing like your # 166: #2 {X} # Interviewer: #1 good dishes are made out of maybe # 166: #2 yeah mm-hmm # Interviewer: what would you call that? {NS} What do you say generally talking about your dishes you might say well these are {NS} not just everyday dishes this is maybe it's an antique this is real good {NS} 166: Nest eggs that's what I call- Interviewer: Okay what about uh {NS} uh {NS} the {NS} the place a uh abroad where the the oriental come from the people you know with the their eyes were slanted and so forth. {NS} China {NS} Y- you use that you ever use that word china to do with dishes? {NS} 166: Yeah I've used um {NS} Interviewer: How would you say that you tell me this not my everyday dishes this is my good 166: China dishes Interviewer: Okay {NS} And what about what would you carry water in? {NS} 166: Jugs Interviewer: Okay and what about if it were bigger than that and open at the top? {NS} had a {NS} handle over {NS} 166: You'd have to take it by the handle Interviewer: Okay and uh um {NS} if you uh how did you did y'all have a well? 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: And what would you {NS} the kind you cranked down in or? {NS} 166: Yeah we had it where you had to let the bucket down get a bucket of water and draw it back up. Interviewer: #1 Okay and what was the or yes ma'am # 166: #2 It was the olden days and in the # {NS} earlier days {NS} from that {NS} we had pumps you have to pump it. Interviewer: Yes 'm {NS} what would that bucket be made out of mrs {B} 166: Tin. Interviewer: Okay You ever seen 166: #1 Sometime # Interviewer: #2 them made of # 166: I've seen them old wooden buckets go go down in there {NS} Interviewer: And what sort of container would you have to carry food maybe scraps left over from the kitchen to take those scraps #1 to the- # 166: #2 Harvest can. # Interviewer: Okay back on the farm if it sat in the 166: Well that's what what we kept for the hogs that was just slops Interviewer: Yes 'm and you call that the the thing you carried it in the slop 166: mm-hmm slop bucket. Interviewer: Okay {NS} and what about uh what do you call the uh the kitchen utensil that you fry eggs in? 166: Spider. {NS} Interviewer: Okay any other words {NS} 166: Griddle. {NS} Interviewer: Okay #1 {X} # 166: #2 Griddle # I cook with old griddles now. Interviewer: Okay 166: Cook me a whole cake of bread of lots #1 {D: on about} # Interviewer: #2 Right. # 166: that big around. Interviewer: Right do you remember on that had legs on it and they would #1 {X} # 166: #2 Yeah cook at # fire place Interviewer: Was that called a spider too? 166: {NS} I done forgot what that was c- {NS} called. {NS} But it was took took the place of spiders. {NS} I can't remember the name of that but I had one. Interviewer: Yes 166: And we used to bake potatoes in it. Interviewer: uh-huh Did it have a lid? {NS} 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: It had a lid and it set in it 166: #1 {D: You know} # Interviewer: #2 right. # 166: you can call them spiders {D: I reckon. } Interviewer: okay 166: But anyway you put 'em in fireplace and they have legs {NS} and you puts fire under that and we bake potatoes in 'em and {NS} then we have baked potatoes just pulled in {NS} long time ago old {X} {NS} all warm let 'em stay there and bake. Interviewer: um 166: Parch peanuts in 'em. Interviewer: #1 yes # 166: #2 mm-hmm # Interviewer: yes okay. {NS} What about a heavy iron vessel with a large opening that maybe was used on the farm? {NS} Maybe for 166: Pot? #1 {D: that's pot} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Okay {NS} and uh would you call that anything else maybe cook uh {NS} uh 166: Hog heads and things in it when you kill hog. Interviewer: Okay would you ever call that a kettle? {NS} 166: No it never was called a kettle. #1 Because a kettle has a # Interviewer: #2 Okay what was # 166: round and had a mouth to it {NS} and that's what we used to use on the stove #1 you know # Interviewer: #2 Oh # 166: to heat our water. Interviewer: #1 Poured out of # 166: #2 You know # we had a stoves end and we just {NS} set it inside there and let fire come to it. Interviewer: Okay okay and what do you call a container that you uh {NS} uh {NS} put flowers in? {NS} Maybe bring it in the house. 166: {D: bring is pot holders} Interviewer: Okay and what about one maybe it's made out of china or something that you just set put good flowers in {NS} in the house like you like pick some roses or something and set? {NS} 166: I don't know what you call #1 that. # Interviewer: #2 uh # What do you call that little thing up on top of your uh {NS} 166: Vase. Interviewer: Okay {NS} and uh {NS} What are the eating utensils that you set by each plate when you're setting the table? {NS} 166: {C: giggles} Not a fork and a spoon. Interviewer: Yes 'm {NS} and uh after the dishes are all dirty you say well {NS} uh I now I've we finished supper we finished lunch I have to go 166: Wash the dishes. Interviewer: And uh after you wash them if you let clear water run over them you say that's? 166: Rinse 'em {NS} Interviewer: And uh what do you use the rag that you use to wash the dishes with? 166: Dish rag. {NS} Interviewer: And uh to dry them you use a? 166: The dry cloth. {NS} Interviewer: Okay and what do you call the little square of terry cloth that you use to bathe your face with? {NS} 166: Soap? Interviewer: No the piece of cloth #1 that you use. # 166: #2 Oh # Washing rag. Interviewer: And uh after bathing you dry yourself off with 166: #1 Towel. # Interviewer: #2 a? # {NS} And what do you call that little {NS} water pipe at the kitchen sink that you turn the water on with. {NS} #1 You know what # 166: #2 I don't know # it's called faucet. {NS} Interviewer: #1 Okay and what a # 166: #2 That's something # and I got to do today too is get a man come in fix mine it leaking and #1 leaking hot water on the bath. # Interviewer: #2 Alright I see # {C: I see} Well is there is it the same what about if it's outside and you turn a hose 166: There a faucet. Interviewer: Faucet alright. {NS} And uh {NS} It was so cold last night that the pipes did this #1 What # 166: #2 Froze. # Interviewer: #1 what and if they they # 166: #2 Froze. # Interviewer: froze and they actually {NS} 166: Busted. {NS} Interviewer: Okay {NS} 166: But I fix mine and I haven't had not one freeze here but one time since I been here. Interviewer: {C: that's right} {NS} uh okay People used to buy flour not in a little bag like this but in a great big {NS} 166: And they used to take wheat and have it ground up too #1 we did we made home # Interviewer: #2 Yes 'm yes # 166: made we'd have it carried {NS} lot of it to {NS} mill Interviewer: Yes 'm {NS} 166: and have it ground up. Interviewer: mm-hmm what did you call the amount that you took to the mill do you remember a word for it? 166: Well we carried a lot of it if had the children was home and hadn't always had {NS} niggers to help 'em {NS} so we'd have to take a right smart of it. Interviewer: mm-hmm Did you ever {NS} have you heard the word a turn a turn of meal 166: A turn uh-huh. Interviewer: Is that would you have said that {NS} just to mean the amount that you take #1 one # 166: #2 It's any # amount you carried. Interviewer: Okay {NS} and uh {NS} What about something that you might have to roll off of a wagon something kind of big and on a couple of logs something kind of big what uh it's shaped maybe this high and kind of rounded maybe it has something around it's maybe wood {NS} and uh something around it to hold it together {NS} I think they pack the tobacco in it maybe some places {NS} 166: I don't know what that is Interviewer: um {NS} 166: I ought to know it but I can't think right now. {NS} Interviewer: uh maybe they kept uh {NS} meal or flour in it or maybe even sugar. {NS} uh a long time ago we'll {NS} talk about that once more. {NS} What about what did molasses come in when you used to buy it in rather large quantities? {NS} 166: Come in five gallon cans. Interviewer: Okay 166: We used to make it and we kept it in {NS} jars save it up in jars Interviewer: okay- {NS} 166: But you can put it in anything you want #1 to. # Interviewer: #2 Sure. # 166: We put ours in jars and in cans too we put it in cans Interviewer: What about how did you keep the lard? {NS} 166: You store {NS} dry the {NS} lard up and put it in the pantry {NS} Interviewer: #1 And uh what kind of container # 166: #2 it stay that # {NS} Can uh {NS} can {NS} can Interviewer: Okay. 166: fifty pound. Interviewer: A fifty and you call that the lard {NS} 166: We used to make four or five {NS} cans a year {X} Interviewer: Did you ever call it a stand or a lard stand or {NS} no? 166: mm-mm Interviewer: Just a can okay. {NS} And what about if you had a {NS} a glass dish that you put on the table with maybe molasses or syrup or something {NS} s- 166: Oh {NS} what do you call it? Interviewer: Would you call that a stand? {NS} 166: Syrup {NS syrup pitcher. Interviewer: Pitcher okay. {NS} And what do you use to pour water into a bottle that has a real narrow top you had to put something up into pouring? 166: I know it I done just did it. Interviewer: Ha. {NS} What do you call that thing on {NS} funnel maybe? 166: Funnel uh-huh. Interviewer: Okay {NW} and if you want your horses to go faster when you're riding you have to use a? {NS} 166: Whip. {NS} Interviewer: And uh {NS} if you bought fruit at the store the grocer might put them in a? {NS} What would he put 'em in for you? 166: Paper bag. {NS} Interviewer: And uh What about if it were made of cloth {NS} what would you call it? 166: {D: lord} we used to we buy flour was to take that flour sack and wash 'em and make {NS} children little pants out of 'em #1 long time ago. # Interviewer: #2 yes # Yes and that was called they didn't call that a bag they called that a sack? 166: mm-hmm Interviewer: Okay {NS} 166: Get the letters out of it you'd have to soak and get the letters out of it and I {NS} bought my chicken feed that way too. {NS} Interviewer: mm-hmm 166: I had I'd wash 'em and then sell them things twenty-five cents a piece and niggers would buy them and {NS} make dresses out of 'em. Interviewer: {D: Really?} Okay. 166: They hundred pound. Interviewer: Yes 'm what about uh uh {NS} the l- the heavy rough cloth {NS} that they use to carry maybe potatoes in or uh {NS} uh {NS} #1 The # 166: #2 We used to # call them sacks we used to put our potatoes in a sack and then take 'em and {NS} put some straw down in a deep hole and bed 'em and they {X} {NS} Interviewer: Do you remember uh using a word to say a certain kind of a sack? {NS} #1 To disting- # 166: #2 cotton sacks. # Interviewer: What? 166: Cotton sacks. Interviewer: Okay have you ever heard uh {NS} toe sack {NS} or gunny sack {NS} 166: mm-mm Interviewer: burlap bag? {NS} 166: Burlap I heard of that. Interviewer: #1 Burlap you say? # 166: #2 mm-hmm # Interviewer: Okay. {NS} um {NS} When the light burns out in an electric lamp you say you have to put in a new? {NS} You know that thing you turn in?