Interviewer:  I was saying if uh You see something that you like you'd like to buy it but it's just too expensive.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  You'd say well I'd like to get that but it just too much?
548:  Costs too much.
Interviewer:  Okay. And you say when it's time to pay the bill you say the bill is?
548:  Too high.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or when it has come time to pay it. You say the bill is?
548:  Too much. I can't think.
Interviewer:  Or a let's see. {NW} The bill is due.
548:  Yeah the bill is due.
Interviewer:  Okay. And some people who are in clubs they have to pay their?
548:  Dues.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Do you want uh {D:house out there}but you haven't got enough money, Maybe you go to your banker and try to?
548:  Borrow it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And he might say well I like to give you the money but nowadays money is mighty.
548:  Expensive I guess.
Interviewer:  Or if you haven't got a lot of if you'd say money is mighty?
548:  Mighty low.
Interviewer:  Or scar-?
548:  Mighty scared.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. What about if you were going swimming? When a person runs down the end of the board and goes in like this?
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  You'd say he's going to? In the water. You know dive?
548:  Dive.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And if he did it yesterday you'd say yesterday he?
548:  Dived.
Interviewer:  #1 Right. #
548:  #2 On the # diving board.
Interviewer:  Right. And he has? Off the board?
548:  He has dove off the diving board.
Interviewer:  Okay. And when he gets into the water he begins to?
548:  Swim.
Interviewer:  Alright. Yeah. Your telling me about it you say yesterday I?
548:  Yesterday I went swimming.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or yesterday I? In the water.
548:  Yesterday I dove in the water.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. You ever seen anybody dive in the water and land flat? Make a popping sound.
548:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Haven't heard that?
548:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Just land flat. Have you ever heard that called anything?
548:  Bully-buster.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Right.
548:  Well they tell me that hurts.
Interviewer:  It does. It hurts. {NW}
548:  Man I can't swim.
Interviewer:  Oh. I see. I see.Okay.
548:  But they say that hurts.
Interviewer:  It sure does. It stings. And maybe if somebody gets in water that's too deep for them they don't know how to swim they might? {NS} Might do what?
548:  Drown.
Interviewer:  Sure. Okay. And you talking about somebody that happened to yesterday you'd say yesterday so-and-so?
548:  Drowned.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah. Have you ever heard of around here if you go into the to the store and pay off your bill uh maybe the storekeeper gives you something a little extra. For paying off your bill.
548:  Oh yeah they. They you can go pay your bill off they give you a little bit extra on your bill. Yeah.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. You ever heard the word lagniappe used that way?
548:  What?
Interviewer:  Lagniappe. Meaning a little gift or something. What is that? Okay. What about if a boy is playing around in the yard he might tuck his head between his legs and kick out his feet and roll like that? #1 You'd say. #
548:  #2 Somersault. #
Interviewer:  Right. Okay. Sure. What would you say a baby does before it is able to walk? It?
548:  Crawls.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And if there is something up a tree that I need to get I might have to
548:  Climb.
Interviewer:  Yeah. I did it yesterday I'd say that I?
548:  Climbed that tree yesterday.
Interviewer:  Right. And I have? Plenty of times?
548:  Mm. And you have climbed it plenty of times.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if uh {NS} talking about somebody who's just really sick. You might say well old so-and-so couldn't even sit up. He just in bed all day?
548:  Lay in bed all day.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. And sometimes when you go to sleep you know? You begin seeing things in your sleep. And you say that you begin to?
548:  Have a nightmare.
Interviewer:  Or maybe it's not a nightmare you just begin to? It's nothing scary you are just having a regular old? You just begin to dream.
548:  Dream yeah.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. You were telling me that last night I? About so-and-so.
548:  Mm. I I had a dream last night.
Interviewer:  You dream much? Nightmares? Yeah.
548:  No I don't dream much.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about you say I did if I brought my foot down real hard on the floor?
548:  Stomped the floor. {NW}
Interviewer:  Or say if a boy meets a girl at a party? and he wants to make sure she gets home okay. He might ask her well may I?
548:  Walk home with you?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Or uh say if you were cooking in the kitchen and there was small children standing around. You might tell 'em well that stove is real hot so?
548:  Stay away from that stove.
Interviewer:  Or don't?
548:  Don't touch.
Interviewer:  Okay. Did you ever play uh tag when you were growing up.
548:  Yeah. I remember that I
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. How did that how did you play that?
548:  Well a a bun a bunch of us uh we just stand around you know and uh around in a ring one would get no that was {X}
Interviewer:  Right.
548:  That was playing {X} that is what I'm talking about. Uh-uh we never played tag.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Have you ever heard if you were playing tag there is a place you could run to and be safe? They couldn't get you.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  What was that called?
548:  Base.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Say if you were going to send me for a knife? You'd tell me go me the knife?
548:  Go bring me a knife.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. Or if we were going to uh meet in town. I might say well if I get there before you do I'll? I'll
548:  I'll get here.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or I'll we were supposed to be there together you might say I'll wait?
548:  I'll can't I'll wait and you go ahead and get {D:it}
Interviewer:  Okay.
548:  Whatever it is.
Interviewer:  Or say if uh if I think I'm gonna get married before you do
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  I'd say well that's okay you don't have to hurry. I'll wait
548:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. {D:What do you} a man who's got a smile on his face all the time. You might say well he sure seems to have a good sense of?
548:  Humor. {NW} That's the kind of people I like to see.
Interviewer:  Alright Yeah they're pretty pleasant.
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Say if uh a little boy left his desk pencil lying on his desk.
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  But when he came back it was gone. He might say alright who?
548:  Who's got my pencil?
Interviewer:  Yeah okay. Everyone thinks that they are not gonna give it back. You'd say?
548:  Who stole my pencil?
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if uh you want to get in touch with a friend of your's you might sit down and begin to?
548:  Write 'em a letter.
Interviewer:  Maybe you did it yesterday so yesterday I?
548:  I wrote I wrote him a letter yesterday.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright and I have plenty of times?
548:  I have wrote to 'em plenty of times.
Interviewer:  Alright and after you write the letter you take the envelope and you do what to it? You?
548:  You back it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. You might say well I like to write so-and-so but I just don't know his?
548:  Address.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Say if a little boy has learned something new like how to whistle between his teeth.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  You might ask 'em well who?
548:  Who learned you that?
Interviewer:  Okay. What about the when you were growing up was there ever a little kid that ran around telling on the other children?
548:  Yes sir. Tattle-tale.
Interviewer:  Tattle-tale. {NW} Yeah. Nobody likes a tattle-tale.
548:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Get in trouble.
548:  Mm-mm
Interviewer:  To you is there any difference between tattling and gossiping?
548:  I don't see were there is none.
Interviewer:  Just the same? #1 thing? #
548:  #2 Same thing. #
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if you've got some flowers growing outside and you decide you want to brighten up your room a little bit? You say I believe I'll put outside?
548:  Get me a bouquet I love flowers.
Interviewer:  Yeah. I do too. What about a these things that children play with you say they got a lot of?
548:  Toys.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Ever heard that called anything else? Play-pretty?
548:  Yeah. I hear that too. {NW}
Interviewer:  How would they say that?
548:  I that they say well we got a lot of uh a play-pretties.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Say if I have something that you need right now.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  You'd say me that?
548:  Give me that.
Interviewer:  Right. Okay. But I might say well I already? to you.
548:  Already gave it to you.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Alright. {NS} {NW} {NS} Yeah if your in a hurry you don't just walk somewhere you begin to?
548:  Run.
Interviewer:  Yeah. You'd say I was in a hurry yesterday. Yesterday I? All the way to town.
548:  I run all the way to town yesterday.
Interviewer:  Yeah. And I have plenty of time before?
548:  {NW} I have plenty run to town plenty of times before.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh say if uh oh if somebody if a little boy was playing around and hit a ball through your glass window. Might say well so-and-so that wasn't an accident. He did that? {NS} That wasn't an accident. He did that?
548:  On purpose.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And if you want to if wanna know something and you come to me I might say well I'm not going to be able to help you. You better go? Somebody else.
548:  Yeah. Go to somebody else.
Interviewer:  Yeah or? He might come up to me and say well let me you a question.
548:  Let me ask you a question.
Interviewer:  And I think he might I might say well yesterday you the same thing.
548:  You asked me the same thing. {NW}
Interviewer:  And you have? plenty of times before.
548:  And you have plenty times before.
Interviewer:  You have me?
548:  Asked me the same question.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay. And if little boys get mad at each other they might begin to?
548:  Fight.
Interviewer:  Yeah you'd say yesterday they?
548:  Yesterday they fought.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And they have always?
548:  And they and they fought before.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. Say if somebody took a knife and did that to somebody you say they did what?
548:  Stuck 'em with a knife.
Interviewer:  Or stab?
548:  Stabbed 'em with a knife.
Interviewer:  What do you have any names for big knifes?
548:  Nothing but a butcher knife.
Interviewer:  That's pretty big.
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Okay. But say if a little boy went into the school before a teacher went into the school room {NS} And there were funny pictures of her all over the board. You she might turn around and say well who?
548:  Who put them on the board?
Interviewer:  Uh-uh or who?
548:  Who did that?
Interviewer:  They didn't write the pictures. They?
548:  Oh they wrote it down there. Oh who wrote that on the board?
Interviewer:  Or who drew?
548:  Who drew that on the board?
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if uh a man had a sailing uh a sailboat. And he wanted to get the sails up. He'd say he would say he has to the sail?
548:  Wind.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Ever heard of people call that a hoist the sails? {NW} Excuse me. Never heard that expression before?
548:  Nah.
Interviewer:  Hoist the sail.
548:  No I don't know much about sailboats.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Alright so about ten o'clock during the day time what would you say to somebody just greeting them?
548:  One that I already know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
548:  Say good morning. You doing alright today?
Interviewer:  Okay. What would be the latest in the day you'd say good morning?
548:  Twelve o'clock.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And after that you'd say?
548:  Good evening. {NW}
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay. Is that what you call the part of the day after morning?
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  #1 They evening #
548:  #2 Evening uh-huh # After twelve.
Interviewer:  You ever say call it the afternoon? {NS}
548:  Yeah sometimes.
Interviewer:  You call it?
548:  I I afternoon I call it evening.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Afternoon evening. Same thing?
548:  Mm-hmm. {NW}
Interviewer:  Excuse me.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Mm. What do you say when you are leaving somebody in the day time?
548:  Well if I am going a long ways I'll say goodbye or when I get up or if I am going home I say well I I'm going home. Come when you to see me when you can.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. What do you say when you are leaving somebody at night?
548:  Well so my friends well come on go home with me. {NW} Stay all night.
Interviewer:  Right. Or otherwise you would just say good?
548:  Goodnight.
Interviewer:  Okay.
548:  I'll see you tomorrow.
Interviewer:  Alright. What about if uh a farmer started working the field? {NW} Before the sun came up
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  You'd say he started to work before?
548:  Before sun up.
Interviewer:  And if he stayed out till the sun went down you'd say he stayed out till?
548:  Sun down. Do you want? {NS}
Interviewer:  Yeah do you? {NW}
548:  You got a pretty car.
Interviewer:  Oh thank you. I got to put a lot of miles on it this summer.
548:  I bet you did.
Interviewer:  Riding all around.
548:  Are you married?
Interviewer:  No ma'am. Still single.
548:  How old are you?
Interviewer:  Twenty-eight. {X} {NW}
548:  Very few you see. Twenty-eight that ain't married.
Interviewer:  I know it's true. That's the way it goes, right?
548:  That that's good though watch how watch him do it.
Interviewer:  {NW} I'm not going to jump into anything.
548:  No sir.
Interviewer:  {NW}
548:  Watch out what you do. {NS}
Interviewer:  Yeah. {D:This morning} my voice is about to give out. Okay. What about uh if you were a little late getting out in the field you might say well by the time we got in the field the sun had already?
548:  Come up. It was hot.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Or it had already risen?
548:  Risen.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. And you would say uh yesterday at five o'clock the sun?
548:  The sun went down at five.
Interviewer:  Well if it was in the morning? You'd say at #1 five o'clock #
548:  #2 Oh. Yeah #
Interviewer:  the sun?
548:  Rise at five.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you want to know you might ask somebody what time is the sun gonna?
548:  Set this evening.
Interviewer:  Or what time is it gonna?
548:  Rises.
Interviewer:  Okay.
548:  Today. {NS}
Interviewer:  Let's see if uh if today is Wednesday then Tuesday was? {NS} Today is Wednesday that means Tuesday was?
548:  Mm. Uh. Fourth of July.
Interviewer:  Okay. But was not tomorrow it was?
548:  Yesterday.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. What about if somebody came to see you not this last Sunday but the one before that. You'd say that they came to see you?
548:  Sunday before last.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or if somebody is going to come see you not this coming Sunday but the one after. You'd say he's coming?
548:  Sunday week.
Interviewer:  Sunday week. Okay. {NW} And if somebody who had company and they stayed from about the first to the fifteenth. You'd say they stay about?
548:  A week.
Interviewer:  Okay or have you ever heard people around here use the word fortnight? Okay. Say if you want to know the time of day. You'd ask me? {C: lots of background noise}
548:  What time of day it is?
Interviewer:  Okay. And I'd say uh well just let me look at my?
548:  Clock.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. What about if it was midway between exactly midway between seven and eight o'clock? What time would you call that? {NS}
548:  Seven thirty.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. What if it was fifteen minutes later than half past ten? What would you call that?
548:  Mm. Ten minutes later than half past ten.
Interviewer:  Fifteen minutes later than half past ten.
548:  It'd be. fifteen minutes till eleven wouldn't it?
Interviewer:  Okay. And say something that you have been doing for a long time. You say I been doing that for quite?
548:  Quite a while.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And say if nineteen seventy-seven was last year then nineteen seventy-eight is?
548:  This year.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And something that happened on this day last year. You'd say it happened exactly?
548:  On this day last last year.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am you'd say it happened exactly?
548:  On that day this year.
Interviewer:  You'd say it happened a year?
548:  A year ago.
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay. Alright somethings about the weather. Uh somebody might go outside and look up at the sky and say well I don't like the look of those dark?
548:  Clouds.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. What about a day like today that you know the sun is shinning and just the kind of day you like. You'd say it sure is a?
548:  Pretty day.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What if it's not like that you got a lot of dark clouds and think it's gonna rain. You'd say it looks like it's gonna be a?
548:  If it looks looks dark Oh it looks like it's going to rain.
Interviewer:  Okay or what kind of day would you call that. Is not not a nice day. It's gonna be a?
548:  A nasty day.
Interviewer:  {NS} Yeah yeah. What would say if clouds are getting thicker and darker. You expect it's gonna rain. You say the weather is doing what?
548:  Weather is getting rough.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  The way I always say it.
Interviewer:  Right do you ever hear people say it's threatening?
548:  Threatening rain yeah.
Interviewer:  Threatening rain. Yeah okay. But if it's been cloudy and the sun starts shinning through and the clouds pull away. You say it is doing what? It's?
548:  clearing off
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. Okay. {NS} Alright. What if what kind of storm would you call it if you have a lot of lightening and thunder going on?
548:  Lightening storm.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay.
548:  Or a thunder storm.
Interviewer:  You might say well I just got my clothes hung up on the line when the wind came along and?
548:  Blowed 'em off.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh you might say that wind sure does hard?
548:  Blow hard.
Interviewer:  It has everything down?
548:  It has every everything down. Blows my clothes line down.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW} What what would you say if the wind has been very gentle but it is gradually getting stronger? You'd say the wind is doing what?
548:  Wind is rising.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or if it's if it's been strong but it's gradually getting more gentle. You'd say it's?
548:  It's it's getting more weaker.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about if you go out in the morning during the fall and it's just the kind of weather that you like to be out in. It might be a little on the cool side but it's not uncomfortable.
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Say it's kind of out here?
548:  Nice out here.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay.
548:  I love it out there.
Interviewer:  I do too. Ever heard people use the the word airish. It's kind of airish?
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  What is that like?
548:  Well that's when it's just a little bit average. It's not plum cold and it ain't hot either.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  When it's just a little bit cool.
Interviewer:  Is it uncomfortable?
548:  Well it is if you ain't got sleeves on.
Interviewer:  I see. Okay. Say in the winter time when it's getting colder you might go outside and there will be a light coat of white on the ground. It's ice particles and say you had a little?
548:  Snow.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or if its not exactly snow.
548:  Ice. Freeze.
Interviewer:  Or a frost?
548:  Frost yeah.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Or some frosts are worse than others?
548:  Oh yeah man. It's just they call 'em some of 'em killing frost. Everything is just you know pretty and green till you have that killing frost and then it just kills everything.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. I see. You might say it got so cold last night that the lake?
548:  Froze over.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if it gets much colder the pond might?
548:  Might freeze too.
Interviewer:  And it has? plenty of times before? it has?
548:  It has froze before though.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Alright.
548:  Would you rather have tea than water?
Interviewer:  Oh this is fine. It is really preferable. It's fine. Okay just. {NW} Just to get uh pronunciation would you say kind of slowly for me the months of the year?
548:  I couldn't to save my life.
Interviewer:  {X} Do you know what month this is right now?
548:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay well uh let's see. Well what about if I just say 'em and you repeat after me. Would that be okay? Okay.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  January.
548:  January.
Interviewer:  February.
548:  February.
Interviewer:  March.
548:  March.
Interviewer:  April.
548:  April.
Interviewer:  May.
548:  May.
Interviewer:  June.
548:  June.
Interviewer:  July.
548:  July.
Interviewer:  August.
548:  August.
Interviewer:  September.
548:  September.
Interviewer:  October.
548:  October.
Interviewer:  November.
548:  November.
Interviewer:  December.
548:  December.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about the days of the week? Could you say them for me?
548:  Mm-hmm. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Have you ever heard of people around here call Sunday anything else?
548:  The sabbath.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. What does that mean to you? The sabbath.
548:  Well that's the day the lord made to be holy.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  And that's why they call it sabbath.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. Okay. What about this expression you might say well sometimes you feel that your uh your good luck comes a little bit at a time but it seems your bad luck comes?
548:  All at all at once,
Interviewer:  Right. {NW} Right. Uh and then again just for pronunciation.
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Uh. Could you count for me from one to fourteen slowly?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay.
548:  One Two {NW} three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen.
Interviewer:  Okay and the number after nineteen is?
548:  Twenty.
Interviewer:  Okay and after twenty-six is?
548:  Twenty-seven.
Interviewer:  Alright and after twenty-nine is?
548:  Thirty.
Interviewer:  And after thirty-nine?
548:  Is forty?
Interviewer:  Okay and after sixty-nine?
548:  seventy.
Interviewer:  And after ninety-nine?
548:  It's a hundred.
Interviewer:  Okay and after nine hundred ninety-nine that's one?
548:  thousand.
Interviewer:  Okay and big number ten times a hundred thousand is one?
548:  Million.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. The day of the month that the bills are due is usually the?
548:  First.
Interviewer:  And after that is the?
548:  Second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth.
Interviewer:  Right around our fingers?
548:  Ten. Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  I want to ask you about uh again just for pronunciation.
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  The names of uh {NW} some of states and cities. If uh you just repeat them after I say 'em. Okay. Uh and tell me if you ever been there or heard of 'em before.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Uh New York state.
548:  I've heard of it but I ain't been there.
Interviewer:  Okay. Could you say it for me?
548:  New- New York state.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay just repeat these after me.
548:  Oh.
Interviewer:  Maryland.
548:  Maryland.
Interviewer:  Oh Okay Virginia.
548:  Virginia.
Interviewer:  Okay North Carolina.
548:  North Carolina.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay South Carolina.
548:  South Carolina.
Interviewer:  Georgia.
548:  Georgia.
Interviewer:  Ever been there? Okay. Uh Florida.
548:  Florida.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alabama.
548:  Alabama.
Interviewer:  Have you been to Alabama? I'll have to get over there sometime.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Uh Louisiana.
548:  Louisiana.
Interviewer:  Ever been there? Uh Kentucky.
548:  Kentucky. Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Tennessee.
548:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Say that for me.
548:  Tennessee.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Missouri.
548:  Missouri. {NS}
Interviewer:  Ar- Arkansas.
548:  Arkansas.
Interviewer:  Ever been there?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Been there. Okay. Uh Texas.
548:  Mm-hmm. Texas.
Interviewer:  Okay. Oklahoma.
548:  Oklahoma.
Interviewer:  Okay. Massachusetts.
548:  Massachusetts.
Interviewer:  Okay. Ever heard of uh the New England states?
548:  I've heard of it.
Interviewer:  Okay. Can you say that for me?
548:  Massachusetts.
Interviewer:  New England.
548:  New England.
Interviewer:  Okay a few cities now. Baltimore.
548:  Baltimore.
Interviewer:  Okay Washington D.C.
548:  Washington D.C.
Interviewer:  And Saint Louis.
548:  Saint Louis.
Interviewer:  Okay uh Charleston.
548:  Charleston.
Interviewer:  Birmingham.
548:  Birmingham.
Interviewer:  Chicago.
548:  Chicago.
Interviewer:  Okay. Montgomery.
548:  Montgomery.
Interviewer:  Mobile.
548:  Mobile.
Interviewer:  You know where that is? Uh have you ever heard of uh the Gulf of Mexico.
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Body of water. Say that for me.
548:  Gulf of Mexico.
Interviewer:  Alright. Um Nashville.
548:  Nashville.
Interviewer:  Okay. Knoxville.
548:  Oxville?
Interviewer:  Knoxville.
548:  Knoxville.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Ever heard of that? Chattanooga.
548:  Chattanooga.
Interviewer:  Okay uh Asheville
548:  Asheville.
Interviewer:  Or uh Memphis
548:  Memphis.
Interviewer:  Okay then okay.
548:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Atlanta.
548:  Atlanta.
Interviewer:  Savannah.
548:  Savannah.
Interviewer:  Macon.
548:  Macon.
Interviewer:  Columbus.
548:  Columbus
Interviewer:  New Orleans.
548:  New Orleans.
Interviewer:  Okay. Baton Rouge.
548:  Baton Rouge.
Interviewer:  Okay. Cincinnati.
548:  Cincinnati
Interviewer:  Louisville.
548:  Louisville.
Interviewer:  Okay and just a few foreign countries uh. You ever heard of Moscow?
548:  I've heard of it.
Interviewer:  You know where it is?
548:  Moscow uh-uh
Interviewer:  Russia.
548:  Ru-Russia. Russia.
Interviewer:  And what about Paris?
548:  Paris.
Interviewer:  Okay France.
548:  France. Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Okay and Ireland.
548:  Uh Ireland uh-uh. {NW} {NS}
Interviewer:  You must have stayed in Mississippi all your life?
548:  I have.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Don't like to travel too much?
548:  Yes I like to travel but when I raised my children I didn't have the money to travel.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  My husband he was sick a lot of the time. So didn't get to travel.
Interviewer:  You said you'd been on a visit to see your son in Texas though.
548:  Yeah. I got sick and had to go out there.
Interviewer:  Oh is that right?
548:  And that's how I could I be out there. He come got me.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Did you get over at the sixty plus thing today?
548:  You know I missed that.
Interviewer:  I heard that happened.
548:  Uh my daughter in law brought me in. I've been trying to get out there and pay my rent. And they were going to charge me overtime if I didn't pay it. This morning.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  And so I uh got a car and went out there and paid my rent. And as I got upstairs I tried to open the door I heard Ms. Pool blow the horn out there.
Interviewer:  Oh.
548:  And before I could get down and get out there. Then it was fifteen till twelve. She was in a hurry. She was gone.
Interviewer:  Uh.
548:  I didn't get to go.
Interviewer:  Mm. And they have that everyday of the #1 week? #
548:  #2 everyday # Everyday. But now uh there's a church brings some people like you know blind or really unable to get out
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  they bring them lunch on Saturday and Sunday.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  But now we go out and eat. Uh five days a week.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  But we don't get none on Saturday and Sunday. We have to cook.
Interviewer:  I see. That's not bad two days a week I guess.
548:  No that ain't too bad. I sure would have liked to go today though.
Interviewer:  Do they usually have pretty good meals?. Over there.
548:  Yeah. Biggest part of the time they do. Now they had a good meal there Friday. And uh so they were gonna give us a cold pack and for two days. That we was off. You know through the fourth and we didn't go back. Well they got some uh lunches in cold packs like that. Apples and oranges and you know? Look raisins you know? Well a little bit of whole lot of different stuff you know? And you get two of them. But you know I didn't even get to go. The one that was supposed to carry didn't carry.
Interviewer:  Mm.
548:  And uh so I didn't get mine. Which I wouldn't have had to cook yesterday. I'd have me something already cook.
Interviewer:  Do you like to cook?
548:  No. {NW} I had to do too much of that when I was raising my family.
Interviewer:  What's the hardest thing you have ever had to cook? {NS}
548:  Really I don't know. Only talking about uh uh.
Interviewer:  The reason I asked is maybe something like cakes. My mom I was talking to my mom on the telephone last she said that she tried to make two and they both fell. So that sounded like it would be pretty hard to me to do right.
548:  Well uh well my cakes used to fall if I made 'em up you know. from scratch I caught 'em you know you put I I always put when I had my family three cups of sugar and about half a dozen eggs. And uh so I I make my cake up seven layers. It would be about that high.
Interviewer:  Seven.
548:  Seven layers.
Interviewer:  That's a pretty big cake.
548:  You you know layers. You know what I am talking about?
Interviewer:  I thought I did but I guess I don't.
548:  There there thin you know you make 'em thin. which you stack 'em up on top of one another.
Interviewer:  Oh okay.
548:  Seven of 'em.
Interviewer:  I don't cook. I don't know.
548:  Well I know you saw homemade cook cakes cooked. And uh so that's what I had to cook when I was raising my family I mean uh. I used to cook a no little one.
Interviewer:  Yeah I see. Yeah. Did you ever make birthday cakes and stuff like that? What kind of cakes did you even make?
548:  Well really I didn't ever fool with none hardly on Christmas or something like that. But one time one of my boys he was sick the whole time I but anyway I cooked a a coconut cake and that is what he liked. And we had one of those old ice boxes that you could buy a chunk of ice put it in that box and then you set down what you set down onto there little old place down there. I went to cook my cakes early that Christmas. So I cooked me a nice coconut cake. It looked so good you know. And he kept begging me for a piece of that cake. Now I wouldn't give it to him. And around that porch we had a a wide plank nailed to where the children couldn't get out the back you know? And so I went out there looking for my cake and it was gone. It pickled me. I thought you know next door just took it. meaning to give it back you know it was frank for somebody going to do that. And so I I don't know. Late that evening early the next morning I noticed and that boy had gotten that cake out of that ice box. And he couldn't get the door open and he set it up on the edge of that plank While he opened the door and it just {X}
Interviewer:  Oh god.
548:  Man Sticky sticky mess. {NW} He never got my cake
Interviewer:  That's terrible. That's terrible. Mm. You reckon it's gonna stay hot outside?
548:  I imagine. This month and next is supposed to be the hottest month we have yet.
Interviewer:  Has it gotten over a hundred here yet?
548:  I ain't got nothing to keep up with it with.
Interviewer:  I was in driving around in Arkansas last summer about this time and I drove into {D:El Dereo} Arkansas and it was one-hundred and eight.
548:  Oh gee.
Interviewer:  Oh goodness gracious. The hottest place I've been yet.
548:  You have got air conditioning {NW} I thought you better have
Interviewer:  Either that or be packing ice. {NW} {NW} It's rough.
548:  I know.
Interviewer:  Sure does.
548:  It gets rough. {NS} Well I don't know. {NS}