interviewer:  {X} Why don't you give them Your whole name.
888:  My name is {B}.
interviewer:  {X} Spell your first name.
888:  L-E-S-H-A-C-H. {B}
interviewer:  {NS} Okay again. {B} Again?
888:  Yes. {B}
interviewer:  {NS} Okay and uh where were you born? {B} {NS} Okay what county did you spend {B} {NS} Okay and you're how old?
888:  I'm 17 years old.
interviewer:  Okay. {NS} And um what's your religion?
888:  Um I'm a Baptist. {NS}
interviewer:  And what would you say is your occupation your {D: food and many} and part-time {D: one}?
888:  Uh I'm a cook and I work with children. {NS} And that's what I do. {NS}
interviewer:  Where where do you cook?
888:  I cook at {B} for the college students over there. {NS}
interviewer:  When when do you do that? I don't see when you have time to do all this.
888:  Well right now I'm on vacation for Trinity University.
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  And they right now for the summer I'm looking I got this job working with children in recreation right now I start back in September and go back over to Trinity University.
interviewer:  Okay. So okay what uh what grade did you tell me you'll be in school next year?
888:  I'm a senior next year. {NS} Hoping to graduate during the summer.
interviewer:  Okay um what all schools have you gone to
888:  #1 What all schools for high school #
interviewer:  #2 Yeah sure # Yeah. Start with the first one and tell me the name of the school.
888:  The first school I went to is Grant elementary.
interviewer:  How do you sp- what?
888:  Grant Elementary.
interviewer:  Okay.
888:  And the second school I went to was Dunbar. And the third school I went to was {D: Hart Bond} junior high.
interviewer:  Okay wait. Dunbar was what kind of school?
888:  It was uh elementary was a junior school but they turned it into a elementary.
interviewer:  Okay and the next one was what?
888:  {D: Hart Bond} junior s- junior high.
interviewer:  Okay.
888:  Third one was Edison high school. And then I got transferred from Edison high school to Wheatly high school Because we had moved And They wanted to give me they didn't wanna give me the right courses that I wanted so.
interviewer:  Uh how do you spell Wheatly?
888:  Wheatly is W-H-E-A-T-L-Y.
interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Tell me, what all clubs and stuff have you been in?
888:  I go to the pool club #1 and um #
interviewer:  #2 The what? #
888:  Pool clubs.
interviewer:  Okay. Where is that?
888:  Uh, it's where I go for uh you know when I wanna do something on weekend days like Saturday, Sunday I go shoot a little pool.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  And I used to go to boys' club That's when I used to get in a different you know organization such as basketball and baseball and football and stuff like that.
interviewer:  Yeah. {NS} Okay. What about church?
888:  Church? Uh I went to St. John's and I went to Reverend Bailey's church I go you know both churches.
interviewer:  Oh these are not the same church?
888:  No these are not the same {X}
interviewer:  Oh Reverend Bailey's church is um {NS} Is this one down here on this corner?
888:  On north main.
interviewer:  Yeah. {NS}
888:  It's a church called uh it's a methodist church on the corner but I go to either I go to both because you know I wasn't really really baptized at Reverend Bailey's church But I'm going to both right now sometime I When I get out of my church I go to Reverend Bailey's church too.
interviewer:  Okay. Um you go all the time and you go to youth groups and stuff like that?
888:  Yes ma'am I go every Sunday.
interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Uh {D: did you ever do} much traveling?
888:  Well not really much traveling but since my grandmother died we hardly you know go anywhere cause we used to go during the summer I used to take a vacation up there to stay with her for a while.
interviewer:  Where'd she live?
888:  She lived in Georgetown.
interviewer:  Uh uh okay. {NS} What {D: you said} your whole family used to go and that
888:  Yeah the whole family used to go but Like I wanna go around like I'm going to Houston's jazz festival starting on the 18th so I'll be going out of town then.
interviewer:  Yeah. That'll be fun.
888:  That will be fun I'll {NS} stay overnight up there with a couple friends I know you know they invited me so I'll probably just stay up there.
interviewer:  {D: Ooh that'll be neat.}
888:  Yeah. {NS}
interviewer:  {X} {NS} Where'd you tell me your mother was from?
888:  My mother was born in Georgetown, Texas. {NS}
interviewer:  Okay. And tell me how old was she when she came here. Do you have any idea?
888:  She was around 32 {X} About 32. About 32.
interviewer:  Okay. How old is she now?
888:  I couldn't tell you that but I don't really know but I say it's ranging at about 49 prob- probably 48 or something like that I'm not very sure.
interviewer:  Okay. And uh where was your father born?
888:  My father he was born in Louisiana. New Orleans. {NS}
interviewer:  Okay. And uh does he still live with you all now?
888:  No my father he was deceased about 2 years ago.
interviewer:  Okay. Uh. {NS} Uh how far did your mother get in school do you have any idea?
888:  She made it to about Ten tenth grade.
interviewer:  Okay. What about your father?
888:  I don't know I really don't know.
interviewer:  Okay uh did your mother work?
888:  No she's a housewife.
interviewer:  {X}
888:  My father he was a deputy for the sheriff department. {NS}
interviewer:  Okay um where were your mother's parents from do you know?
888:  Uh Rockdale.
interviewer:  Texas?
888:  Yes, Rockdale, Texas.
interviewer:  Okay. Uh, do you know anything about {D: their} education?
888:  Uh all I know that you know they While they was trying to work they couldn't you know Go to school and try to bring money home to they you know parents Because it was tough back then.
interviewer:  Yeah. Uh what did your uh mother's mother father do for a living do you know?
888:  What'd they do for My mother's father do for a living?
interviewer:  Yes.
888:  Well they picked cotton and stuff I guess.
interviewer:  {X} Okay. {NS} Did her mother do anything?
888:  Uh She All I know that she used to stay home and cook, and help help him out in the field sometime when they wanted
interviewer:  Okay
888:  to pick vegetables or stuff like that.
interviewer:  Pick what
888:  Pick vegetables. Vegetables.
interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Did they own a farm or did they work on somebody else's land?
888:  No they they owned their own farm in Rockdale. {NS} They had you know different stuff. {NS}
interviewer:  Um do you {D: ever think} about where they came from before that?
888:  No I sure don't
interviewer:  Okay.
888:  I couldn't tell you about it.
interviewer:  Okay your your father's parents uh where are they from?
888:  My father's parents? They're from New Orleans. {NS}
interviewer:  Okay um You know anything about their education?
888:  I sure no I don't.
interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Um you know what they did for a living?
888:  Uh no uh only thing I know they say is because most of the day, you know helped out in car washes and stuff like that I don't really know what they really did for a living but
interviewer:  Okay. Did his mother work?
888:  Did his mother work? Yes. She did. I don't know what it was
interviewer:  Mm-hmm
888:  but she worked.
interviewer:  Uh do you know where they came from before they were in New Orleans?
888:  Well the only thing I can say is Where did they come from?
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Well what I heard they would say in Louisiana That's where My mother you know got met met my father He came down.
interviewer:  So so lower part of Louisiana? Like
888:  New Orleans, Louisiana.
interviewer:  Yeah okay. {NS} Okay. And I assume you're not married?
888:  No I'm single.
interviewer:  {C: Laughs} Okay. {NW}
888:  {D: Still on the bachelor side.}
interviewer:  Yeah. Alright we can scratch all that stuff. Um have you all lived in the same house since you were born or have you moved around or what?
888:  Yeah we've been moving around place to place but you know right now we kinda find a nice place to stay right now.
interviewer:  Mm-hmm
888:  And we still we still looking right now.
interviewer:  Uh huh uh huh. What's the first house you remember?
888:  The first house I remember is when I was just a I was just born on Holland Street and All I know that when we moved it wasn't nothing but a vacant lot. {NW}
interviewer:  Is that right?
888:  Yeah.
interviewer:  Yeah. Well do you remember what the inside looked like?
888:  Yes I can It looked like you know way back in them days where the chair and the table wasn't the same And it's a lot of memories back in them days I can remember you know Some of the things we used to do on the outside and play I remember when {X} time like that way back then and it'd just be fun back in them days if I could relive them I'd do them right now
interviewer:  Yeah. Yeah you know when {X}
888:  #1 Yeah that's just how #
interviewer:  #2 {X} #
888:  I saw I life that's what
interviewer:  It scared me I did not {X}
888:  {NW}
interviewer:  {X}
888:  Yeah I know what you mean
interviewer:  I always associated something to do with the drag with dragons.
888:  Dragons
interviewer:  It had something to do with dragons. {C: laughs}
888:  Al- that's what my father always liked when every time it came on he'd say {NW} Here come the dragon now buddy hurry up it's coming on
interviewer:  {NW}
888:  And we had something on the stove cooking you know my mother would be cooking We'd have we'd go in there and sit down and eat at the table we just she says every time we would look at TV she said hurry up and get through eating you know because {NS} food gonna get cold so we'd just sit there and look at TV.
interviewer:  Yeah. Uh huh same old story. Yeah. Well um I tell you what {X} I could get you to draw me a floor plan like if you took the top off just the roof off and looked straight down into the house. Could you draw me a floor plan of the earliest house that you remember?
888:  Yeah.
interviewer:  Okay maybe you just draw it on the back of the
888:  Right on the paper now.
interviewer:  Yeah. {NS} {NW} {NS}
888:  I'm not too good at drawing, ma'am.
interviewer:  Try. I {D: could give you an advance}. {NS} You know it's really not too bad {X}.
888:  Yeah, it's real cool.
interviewer:  Uh-huh. {X}
888:  You don't have air conditioning
interviewer:  Hmm?
888:  You don't have air #1 Conditioning #
interviewer:  #2 Yeah I do, but # Yeah I do but you know it takes {X} halfway across town before it starts to work. {X} {NS}
888:  Oh and that tree was a big China berry tree. {NS}
interviewer:  Okay can up above there can you show me What where where the rooms were in relation to each other?
888:  Where the rooms were?
interviewer:  Yeah mm-hmm. {NS}
888:  My bed was right here. You want me to just point it out to you?
interviewer:  Yeah. {X} Draw in there to so I can tell {X}.
888:  Okay.
interviewer:  But uh {X}. {NS} Do you have brothers and sisters?
888:  Yes I have five brothers and three sisters.
interviewer:  {X} You've got a lot {X}. Where where are you? Are you in the mid
888:  I'm the I'm the baby but my sister I'm the baby boy but I'm not the baby in the family, my sister is.
interviewer:  Uh huh so one sister is younger?
888:  Yeah.
interviewer:  Uh huh. {NS}
888:  And we used to have a bedroom back here. {NS}
interviewer:  How many rooms were were in the house?
888:  It was a pretty big house because That's what I like about it because you know everybody almost you know we didn't have a bedroom by ourself but If we could get around in the house you know that if had two doors on it And we could go into one side door with you know without bo- you know bothering everyone else in the house
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  If you come in late {NS} That's all I can say
interviewer:  Okay alright now tell me how things look.
888:  Well my bedroom was over here by this window here.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  And when you come inside the door you could just walk right in the bed in my bedroom right here.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  And the living room was
interviewer:  Was anybody else in there with you?
888:  Yeah I had a little my brother he's in on there right now and he used to sleep with me.
interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  And {NS} He used to come inside and my mother's bed was over here And my sister and brother's bed was over here.
interviewer:  Okay {D: were those} in different rooms?
888:  Yeah they was in different rooms.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  And Right here the dining the kitchen was right here back in the back back corner.
interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  And {NS} Dining room we had a little little dining room where you could go in and sit down and talk.
interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
888:  #2 When we had # Company
interviewer:  In the dining room?
888:  Yeah.
interviewer:  Uh-huh
888:  And we'd sit down and {X} {NS} And Around here it was a place where we could you know Where you can Sort of a closet it was a little closet back over here That's all I can remember.
interviewer:  Uh huh was that off the bedroom or {X} was?
888:  It was in the bedroom. I can remember a closet and then we had a big Cadillac it was one of the real old-timey Cadillacs.
interviewer:  Yeah. Did it have fins on it?
888:  Yeah. It used to be parked right out on the front of the yard.
interviewer:  Uh huh. {NS} {X} Cadillac.
888:  {NW}
interviewer:  {D: You did good on the Cadillac huh?} {NW}
888:  Yeah. Used to be parked right out there in front of this China berry tree right here. #1 Used to be a big #
interviewer:  #2 A what type tree? #
888:  China berry tree.
interviewer:  Yeah mm-hmm
888:  It used to be right there and every time they would bloom we would go outside and get the China berries off and
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Eat them.
interviewer:  So you ate them? I didn't know you could eat them.
888:  I mean pomegranates I'm sorry.
interviewer:  Oh! I didn't know you could eat china berries.
888:  {NW} I'm sorry about that.
interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Pomegranates I mean.
interviewer:  Oh I love pomegranate #1 That sounds good #
888:  #2 Yeah. # We used to eat them every time it would get ripe.
interviewer:  They're nice
888:  My mother wouldn't let us eat them sometimes because you know she'd think we'd get sick cause they were {NW} Sometimes my brother or sister would pick them off green and stuff like
interviewer:  No that's not too good. Anyway they're sour when they're green.
888:  Yeah I know.
interviewer:  I don't like them that way. Well um okay let's see. Um uh where was the bathroom? {NS}
888:  Oh I forgot to put the bathroom. {NS} The bathroom was straight straight back here.
interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  Here's the little room back over here where the dining room was
interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Did you have a
888:  {X}
interviewer:  Did you have a hallway that went back here?
888:  Yeah there was a little hall. There was a little hall that'd go straight back.
interviewer:  Uh huh and did rooms open off either side of that?
888:  Yes.
interviewer:  Yeah
888:  You'd go off in the hall but sometimes you know our lights wouldn't be working and we had to use candles.
interviewer:  Uh huh oh yeah. When did that happen like what it'd rain or
888:  Well uh we paid our bill it was bad wiring really and my mom wouldn't trust us with because one time our house it got caught on fire and it was because of the wiring in the house and so we didn't hardly use it too much because it was still you know still short somewhere in the sockets where it'd shoot little fires.
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  She just told us to use candles you know most of the time.
interviewer:  Ooh yeah.
888:  And we told the man to come out and fix it but he didn't pay no attention to us.
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Yeah we paid our rent on time And you know you know paid our bill on time but they would never come out and fix it that was one of the reasons we moved.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  Cause they wouldn't fix nothing. And then I went to the west side Lived on the west side for about three or four years Then we moved back to the north side.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  We lived by there right now {X} About ten ten years about ten years. #1 {D: Then we came back down here.} #
interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # Uh huh. This this house was on north side?
888:  Yeah do you know where the H-E-B at right now on Hildebrand?
interviewer:  #1 Uh-uh. #
888:  #2 {X} # On Hildebrand and McCullough
interviewer:  #1 Yeah #
888:  #2 And # And it's H-E-B right sitting right in the front of it. {NS} We were living there since H-E-B was built when they were building H-E-B that's how long we been living there.
interviewer:  {X}
888:  What? Oh it's a food market it's a food market.
interviewer:  Okay I get it okay. You're gonna have to tell me stuff like this {X} I don't know any of the names of stuff {X}.
888:  Oh okay. Well that's a food market and when we used to live we used to live right by it and this man used to bring the Trucks up there and deliver stuff in the morning and he'd need some help So we used to go up there and do part time work.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  And truck used to come right out there on the front.
interviewer:  Yes.
888:  {X} H-E-B is back here It was out in the front but Trucks used to come up there in the front. And load stuff and they didn't have no help.
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  We used to give him a couple of hands. And he'd give us some you know free to take home or Stuff like that.
interviewer:  Yeah did he did he pay ya did he ever pay you in money? Or was it mostly like in food?
888:  Well It was mostly in food.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  And We was happy to get that #1 Anyway because #
interviewer:  #2 Yeah that'd be #
888:  Used to take it home and My mother used to be happy about it wasn't much but it was something you know to eat.
interviewer:  Well yeah it was right here and you had some store to get it at right there Um oh what's that?
888:  Uh we had a chimney on top of the house right there.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  It was we used to have a little Oh I forgot to tell you we used to have a wooden stove. We didn't have gas.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  And Every time we'd burn the smoke would just come you know right out in the front of the house like that and everybody would see it next door because they'd think the house was on fire but it which it wasn't it was just smoke coming out the chimney. The big chimney and every time Christmas came we'd talk about Santa Claus was gonna come down the chimney and stuff like that my little brothers and sisters
interviewer:  Yeah. Well did she did she cook on the wood stove?
888:  Uh
interviewer:  Or was that for heat for the house?
888:  That was heat for the house and but we had a stove back there where you could cook on it's a little gas It was a {D: coil top} stove really We had a little {D: coil top} stove where we could cook on this Little lamp where you'd turn it up {D: coil top} stove.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  It wasn't until we used to go out and get wood but then wood went up one time and then My parents you know the man he went up on the wood because he said it was getting hard to get.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  So we'd start paying we started going to a different place then {NS} Start paying for more {X} But that's when the lumber yard got caught on fire down here way back then.
interviewer:  Oh. What what caused the fire?
888:  What caused the fire? Uh somebody say that this man he used to live right there sometime you know he had a wooden stove too.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  And Something got caught on fire. He used to be kinda drunk all the time he used to drink a lot. And he didn't you know care too much about himself and one day I guess one night he was sleeping and was real cold and whole place got caught on fire.
interviewer:  Ooh.
888:  #1 It was all over the news. #
interviewer:  #2 What happened to him? #
888:  He burned up.
interviewer:  Ooh. Yuck.
888:  And after that we had to buy supply from somewhere else then.
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  But then summer came and we was okay.
interviewer:  Yeah. And then didn't you move {X}?
888:  Yes we moved to the west side which We didn't have nobody to move us and nothing like that because we didn't have a truck and nothing like that so we had these neighbors come as many people down the street and they had a big big truck {NS} And my after my dad that's when my daddy died When we was living in the house.
interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  And We had a big They had a big truck down there so we asked them could they move us so they said yeah And my mother said that she would give them this car right here this Cadillac car.
interviewer:  Hmm.
888:  Which they wanted, too. And so When they moved us we gave them that car
interviewer:  Mm-hmm
888:  and I don't know what they did with it. But it was it was a good car. It runs you know It was a late model but it really ran. Cause my daddy used to take me everywhere you know where we wanted to go.
interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  And We moved to the west side over there on river street The house was real small cause we didn't have a charge to move because we were gonna move because The place you know they didn't want {X} and which {NS} uh We couldn't get you know satisfactory on it so my mother just moved. Moved to the west side and then we stayed on red woods about Stayed about three years because it was getting kind of small because It was you know it didn't have it had about I'd say about 2 bedrooms and
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  And we had to {X} in them two bedrooms. We had to make a a living room out of a bedroom.
interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm
888:  And {NS} That's how it was so small. So we moved off of red woods and we moved on Roberts. It was still on the west side.
interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  That's when I was I'd say around Eight years old {NS}
interviewer:  {X}
888:  And uh We moved over there on Roberts street right by the creek which we didn't like because whenever it'd flood The creek would over rise and you know it'd come from {X} lake yeah you know Come way down and it'd come up that high some people would you know Get washed you know their clothes and stuff would get washed away.
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  And Some houses would get over flooded and people that didn't have help they had to go down to the salvation army and get help from them and stay down there.
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  So
interviewer:  How old were you when your father died?
888:  I was very small I That's when I was living on Holland. In this house right here.
interviewer:  Uh huh. You were about what?
888:  Seven or Six or six to eight years old. I was real small but I remember the things he used to do.
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  That's one thing I used to remember.
interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. How how did y'all used to make a fire in the in the wood stove?
888:  How did we used to make a fire?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  Well We didn't we didn't we didn't have gas but one thing we used to do is put the wood inside the stove first and sometimes We'd have some coal away from the stove we'd put a little coal all off in the stove.
interviewer:  Yes.
888:  And then make it burn like that. But we would never we would never fool with it. My mother she'd tell us not to mess with it because we'd get the house caught on fire.
interviewer:  Mm-hmm
888:  And my father used to do the same thing.
interviewer:  {X} names of that uh kinda small wood, the {D: stir fry wood} Did you ever have small kinda wood that
888:  Kindlings kindling
interviewer:  Yeah okay. Um Let's see. Um what do you call that place right in front of the Tell me about this one thing. Was it a was it a stove like with iron? Or was it a fireplace or what was it?
888:  It was just a plain uh regular fire stove where you can just put inside it was small it wasn't too big you know. And the pipes would go up where the smoke would come outside to the chimney.
interviewer:  Oh what do you call that kind of just a pipe? Or you call it anything else?
888:  I call it a Just call it a Smoke pipe.
interviewer:  The what?
888:  Smoke pipe.
interviewer:  Okay okay. What do you call that black stuff that gets stuck in the pipes? And the The smoke leaves?
888:  What do I call it?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  Uh
interviewer:  You run your finger up in there and you get black all over your finger?
888:  {X} {NS} Black {X}
interviewer:  Okay. Uh You know when the fire burns down and you have to rake that stuff out? Or shovel that stuff out? What do you call that?
888:  Ashes.
interviewer:  Um Have you ever seen um On a fireplace And sometimes the little shelf-like thing that sticks out from the wood burn stove It's the area in front of the stove or in front of the fireplace that's just flat you know the bricks
888:  It sticks out?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  I just call it a The front Front burning bar
interviewer:  Okay. Have you ever heard it called a hearth {C: pronounced hair-th} or a hearth?
888:  No I haven't.
interviewer:  Okay. Um In a fireplace You know sometimes there's an iron sort of thing that you put the wood on? Do you have a name for that?
888:  What you put the wood on?
interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  No. #1 I don't. #
interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Um Oh up above the fireplace sometimes there's a {D: you know} I'm just talking about a regular fireplace set in the wall, now Not talking about a stove. There's a there's a thing where you can put {X} glasses, pictures, and vases and stuff like that on there. Decorating things.
888:  A wood {D: nock} shelf.
interviewer:  A what?
888:  A wood {D: nock} shelf is that what you're talking about?
interviewer:  Yeah yeah. Well yeah.
888:  Where you can put different things that you want to put on it?
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  That's what I call a wood {D: nock} shelf.
interviewer:  Okay. Um Sometimes people When they use a A fireplace or stove for heat They put a great big log in the back and it'd be green sometimes and You know it's like bigger than the rest of it and it reflects heat back out into the room So it'd be warm like when you got up the next {D: minute}. Do you have a uh name for that log?
888:  {NW} Green wood.
interviewer:  Okay. {NS} In some places where they have pine trees but I don't know Do y'all have pine trees down here?
888:  Yeah. Pine that's on most of the pine trees I see are Near when Christmas comes and
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  They have some we'd get a big pine tree.
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  But you don't hardly see them around mostly It's they're around but I don't never hardly see 'em no more because Only time I see 'em is when Christmas comes I like the smell of them you know.
interviewer:  Yeah. They smell good.
888:  #1 Yeah #
interviewer:  #2 Have you ever heard anybody # splitting one open You know that they just cut down and they get the wood out of the middle cause it's already kinda soft? And they can just make a fire right from that?
888:  No.
interviewer:  Okay. Um {NS} In In the dining room. You know um You have a table and what?
888:  We had a table and a few chairs And
interviewer:  Okay.
888:  A few other things like dishes and stuff like that.
interviewer:  Okay okay. Okay What do you call that uh long piece of furniture that you have maybe in the living room that 3 or 4 people can sit on?
888:  Couch.
interviewer:  Okay. Any other names for it?
888:  Uh Sofa
interviewer:  Uh huh. Is there a difference between a couch and a sofa?
888:  Well I wouldn't say difference I say the same.
interviewer:  Okay um What do you call the piece of furniture in the bedroom That has drawers in it and you put your clothes in the drawers?
888:  Dresser.
interviewer:  Okay. Anything else?
888:  Uh chifforobe
interviewer:  Okay. Is there a difference between a dresser and a {X}?
888:  Yeah. {X} A chifforobe well You can put you know different clothes and stuff in. {NS} And I don't know you can put things in it that You really wanna put in it that you don't wanna get misplaced.
interviewer:  Yeah uh {X} case have drawers or Does it have a place to hang things does it have both or
888:  No, a chifforobe has drawers.
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  And the way you put your things in like sheets or rags or something like that you know Towels and A dresser is you know Where you keep your things in that you wanna put in and stuff like that you Get ready to put on or something like that.
interviewer:  Uh huh uh huh. Which one's bigger?
888:  Which one's bigger?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  I'd say the chifforobe is the biggest.
interviewer:  Uh huh. Okay. Um {NS} Okay tables and chairs and sofa and all that stuff you'd call
888:  Uh some things I'd call antiques Sofa like some chairs was antique and sofa I call it you know just sofa chair #1 things like that. #
interviewer:  #2 Okay. # If you wanted to buy some of that stuff what kind of store would you go to?
888:  Uh {X} furniture I guess.
interviewer:  Okay. Um. You know those things At the window that you pull down that shut out the light that are on rollers?
888:  Uh shades I mean #1 Shades #
interviewer:  #2 What? # Okay. Okay uh {NS} What'd you call little A little room off the bedroom it's hardly big enough to call it a room really. Where you hang your clothes.
888:  Uh closet? A little closet where you can put stuff in or A little attic or something like that.
interviewer:  Okay. Um If you didn't have a Built-in closet like that You might have one that Was movable you know that you can move around? A piece of furniture of some sort?
888:  Uh-huh
interviewer:  What would you call that?
888:  One you can move around something that you can move around that you have your stuff in?
interviewer:  Uh huh. That you hang things in.
888:  Uh I would call that a taly. A taly.
interviewer:  A what?
888:  A taly.
interviewer:  How do you spell that?
888:  T-A-L-Y I guess. Taly.
interviewer:  Huh what does it what does it look like exactly?
888:  Well there's a little thing where you can push push around and you got things where you can hang your suits up in like that And take it to room Room to room stuff like that.
interviewer:  Uh huh uh huh. Okay. Um {NS} What do you call the room at the top of the house that's just underneath the roof?
888:  The room at the top of the house that's up under the roof?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  The attic.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. And Uh A little room off of the kitchen that you might store stuff canned goods And extra dishes Stuff like that?
888:  Uh {NS} Canned goods shelf or The shelf.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Okay what if it was a whole little Little room thing? What What would you call it?
888:  Little room thing?
interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  I'd say the storeroom or the closet.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Uh what would you a {X} work with things that you're about to put away?
888:  Right now you know just throw away?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  Old bicycle rims and Things in the house or you want me to talk about things on the outside?
interviewer:  Yeah just {X} have a name for. All that stuff.
888:  For all the junk I just call it junk.
interviewer:  Okay. Um What would you call a room That's used that's used To store odds and ends?
888:  Storeroom.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. And {NS} Um Speaking of daily housework, you'd say a woman does what every morning?
888:  Clean up and cook and make up the beds and A little of everything around the house.
interviewer:  Okay. What do you call a thing you sweep with?
888:  A broom.
interviewer:  Okay. And You call this thing here {D: That} you open you'd call that a
888:  Door.
interviewer:  Okay. Now. If if that was open, and there was a broom This door was open you know And there was a broom right here You'd say the broom was what {D: on} the door?
888:  The broom was blocking the door.
interviewer:  Uh No it's really like it The door's already open, you know? The door I mean the broom is There. So you'd say "Go get that broom, it's" What the door?
888:  It's right at the door.
interviewer:  Okay. Or um You probably couldn't see it cause the door was open in front of it
888:  Um {X} Watch out for that broom in the back door.
interviewer:  Okay. Whoops.
888:  #1 It's blocking the door. #
interviewer:  #2 But where # But if you were if you were gonna try and tell somebody {D: and} you simply couldn't see it, you know? And you wanted somebody to get it and you They didn't know where it was and you were trying to #1 tell them #
888:  #2 Oh # Go look in the back of the door for the broom.
interviewer:  Okay. Um Okay if all your clothes are dirty, In order to get them ready to wear you're probably gonna have to do the what?
888:  Washing machine or the wash.
interviewer:  Okay. And After you wash 'em, you're gonna have to do what {D: to 'em}?
888:  After I wash 'em, I dry 'em.
interviewer:  Uh huh and then, if they're all wrinkled up, you'll have to
888:  Iron them.
interviewer:  Okay. And The the washing and ironing together you'd probably call the
888:  The washing and ironing together?
interviewer:  Uh huh. There's one word for those three things?
888:  Clean.
interviewer:  Okay. Um What do you call the the place where a bachelor might take his shirts to be done? On You know, the
888:  Will you repeat that?
interviewer:  Well, since a bachelor doesn't have, uh, anybody to To wash and iron his shirts for him, he'd probably take 'em
888:  Oh, to the cleaners.
interviewer:  Okay. Um {NS} If he had a two-story house, how--what would you call the thing that you get from the First story to the second story on?
888:  Stairs, elevator or escalator.
interviewer:  Okay. Um {NS} Okay uh You said stairs first. Now, what would you call these things we're sitting on?
888:  Steps.
interviewer:  Okay. Um Have you ever seen Like {NS} Things like this that go up the outside of the building
888:  #1 Yes. #
interviewer:  #2 to the second story? #
888:  Yes.
interviewer:  Kay which would you call those? Would you call those steps or stairs?
888:  Stairs.
interviewer:  Okay.
888:  On the outside.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Um {NS} What what do you call that little thing that's usually built just outside of the door of the house that you walk on to get {X}?
888:  Oh the step mat? A mat?
interviewer:  Um Well, the whole thing, really. This this really isn't one. But it's a concrete slab, usually, that takes a good step up to to get into the house. And sometimes it's got a little roof and {NS} You'd call it
888:  A shed.
interviewer:  Um
888:  Somewhere over the roof? {NS}
interviewer:  {D: Oh} sometimes Okay it's attached to the outside of the house and sometimes They're screened in.
888:  Uh huh.
interviewer:  And sometimes they're not and they call it a screened-in what?
888:  Door?
interviewer:  Um {X} People still do sit outside when it's hot at night and evening, you know
888:  Oh, when you sit on the outside?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  What do you call that?
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Uh I just say it's sitting on the outside to get some air. {NS} Uh #1 Sitting on the #
interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
888:  patio.
interviewer:  Okay. Now, could you explain to me what exactly 'patio' is?
888:  Patio is a place where you get to go out and sit down and give a little party or something like that or something that's just real concrete, just concrete
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  And, you know there's not no mud or nothing around cause it'd be you know just plain concrete.
interviewer:  Yes. Well, does a patio have a roof, or not?
888:  Uh no. A patio has no roof.
interviewer:  Okay. What if it was something like that but it had a roof, Then what would you call it?
888:  I said uh Shed-in patio.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. What uh what's a porch? What would you call a porch?
888:  A porch is something that you can sit on in the outside and stay out of the rain and stuff like that. You can sit outside and chat talk to other people and your neighbors or something like that
interviewer:  Uh huh. Um Would you call it anything different if it goes like all the way across the front of the house, And all the way down one side, anything like that?
888:  No, I would just say porch.
interviewer:  Okay. Um {NS} Okay, if the door is open, and you don't want it that way, You might tell somebody to get up and what the door?
888:  Close the door.
interviewer:  Okay. Or
888:  Shut the door.
interviewer:  Okay. Um Okay, have you ever seen {X} on the outside of the house? I'm looking for some I don't see any I can't tell if that house is that way or not. I can't see it well. But, like, the boards are You know, they kinda overlap each other like this, The top overlaps the next board down, like that Do you have a name for that?
888:  Uh, grooves. I'd say grooves.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Anything else?
888:  Uh No.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Um You might say, {NS} "Every day I take my car and" what into town?
888:  Drive into town.
interviewer:  Okay. And "yesterday I took my car and"
888:  Drove into town.
interviewer:  Okay. And "every day, for months, I had" what into town?
888:  Repeat, will you will you repeat that please?
interviewer:  Okay. {D: You'd just} use the same word "Every day, for months, I had taken my car and" what into town?
888:  Drove.
interviewer:  Okay. Um What do you call the part of the house that covers the top?
888:  Roof.
interviewer:  Okay. And What do you call little things along the edge of the roof that that carry water off?
888:  Shingles.
interviewer:  Okay. These are Uh These are not over the whole roof they're just {X} I'm looking for some I don't see 'em
888:  What are you talking bout roof pipes?
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Where the water comes on the side?
interviewer:  Yeah. Okay.
888:  What do I really call them?
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I just call 'em
interviewer:  #1 What you say #
888:  #2 Water # You know, water drainers.
interviewer:  Okay. Alright what'd you call it the first time, roof pipes?
888:  Yeah.
interviewer:  Okay. Um {NS} Have you ever seen a You know what a {D: ale} is on a house?
888:  A L?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  Yeah.
interviewer:  Okay. It's it's like You know part of the house that sticks out?
888:  The front of it, like the roof, or just shaped like an L.
interviewer:  Okay yeah. Right, okay, well when the house part and the ale come together, sometimes they both have a Peaked roof and there's a There's a low place like this. Where the where they join. What do you call that?
888:  {NS} Where they the low piece where they join?
interviewer:  Uh huh. A low just place in the roof. You have a name for that?
888:  Square.
interviewer:  What?
888:  It's a square.
interviewer:  Well, it's more like a v-shape.
888:  Triangle?
interviewer:  Yeah sort of like that.
888:  And it and it joins to the other part of the house?
interviewer:  Yeah mm-hmm.
888:  And what do I call it?
interviewer:  Yeah. You may not have a name for it I don't know. {NS}
888:  Uh I don't think I could call it nothing less, you know I understand it.
interviewer:  Okay. Alright {D: listen} Um I don't have a name for that either. I mean, I just don't spend much of my time talking about that kind of thing, you know?
888:  Yeah, I understand, yeah.
interviewer:  Um Okay, if you have a little building outside your house, Where you kept gardening tools and stuff like that, what would you call it?
888:  I call it a shed room or a store room in the back.
interviewer:  Okay. If it's a Okay that thing that we just talked about Would it be attached to the house, or or not attached?
888:  Uh if it wasn't attached to the house, it would be a garage. {NS} #1 And if it #
interviewer:  #2 If it was # or was not?
888:  If if if it is not No say if it is not attached to the house, It's a garage.
interviewer:  Okay.
888:  And If it is attached to the house,
interviewer:  Mm.
888:  That's a storeroom.
interviewer:  Mm-kay alright. What if it's something like a storeroom, but it's smaller than a garage?
888:  Smaller than a garage?
interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  Uh {NS} I'd say tool tool shed.
interviewer:  Okay. Um What would you call Now, what would you call an outdoor toilet?
888:  Outdoor outdoor toilet? I would just call it a {NS} An outdoor toilet.
interviewer:  Okay. Okay, do you know the joking name story?
888:  Shit house shit house uh
interviewer:  Okay. Anything else?
888:  Uh, that's the only thing I know outdoor toilet {X} I know.
interviewer:  Okay okay Um What kind of buildings would you have on farms?
888:  What kind of buildings?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  Uh farm house
interviewer:  What was that last thing?
888:  The farmhouse.
interviewer:  Okay.
888:  And {NS} Goat pen, cow pen. Stuff like that.
interviewer:  Okay. Um let's see. {NS} Where would you keep the horses and cows and stuff like that?
888:  In the shed.
interviewer:  Okay. Is there a {D: the} bigger building? Where you might keep 'em or you might keep hay in it too and stuff like that? What'd you call that building?
888:  I call it a barn where you keep the hay and stuff in.
interviewer:  Okay. Um Have you ever heard of a Separate building where you might store corn?
888:  Where I would store corn at? A separate building? I'd call it a the mill
interviewer:  Okay. Okay, uh Have you ever heard of a building, or a part of a building, Where you store grain? {NS}
888:  A hen house.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Uh {D: You ever hear it called} a granary {C: pronounced gran-ery} or granary {C: pronounced grain-ery}?
888:  Grain
interviewer:  What?
888:  Grain.
interviewer:  Okay. Um{NS} The upper part of the barn you'd call the what?
888:  The upper the upper part of the barn? {NS} The windmill, I guess.
interviewer:  Where where they put hay, usually.
888:  What do they put it in? #1 On top #
interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh #
888:  {X} On top of the attic {X} Something like the attic but {X}
interviewer:  Okay, okay. Um {NS} Let's see. Okay, usually there are there is one Like you said, there's one farmhouse, But sometimes there might be two, in which case You'd say there are two what?
888:  Farmhouses.
interviewer:  What?
888:  There are two farmhouses.
interviewer:  Okay. Um {NS} Okay, you might pile hay up outside the barn in a What?
888:  Stack.
interviewer:  Okay. Um Have you ever seen Uh, hay Covered with, like the got four poles and And they kind of slide in grooves And they cover haystacks with {X}. Have you ever seen anything like that?
888:  No, I haven't.
interviewer:  Okay. Um When they first cut the hay, They used to Kinda rake it up in small piles. And do you know what they called the little piles? {NS}
888:  All I know they used to call it uh Dip piles I guess. Dip piles.
interviewer:  What?
888:  Dip dip piles.
interviewer:  How how do you spell that?
888:  D-I-P-P-A
interviewer:  What does that mean?
888:  You know, this would be a There would be a dip on the ground or something and they rake it up. #1 It's part of the dip-piles. #
interviewer:  #2 Um # Okay, okay. And you've heard people say that {X}?
888:  I heard people say it once Oh but I don't ever hear it too much often.
interviewer:  Mm-kay, okay. Um Have you ever heard of {NS} Oh, here lemme ask you this first. What all kinda animals would you have on the farm? {NS}
888:  Goats. Hogs. Chickens. And, um, horses. Dogs. And That's everything. That you know. {X}
interviewer:  Okay what would you get milk from?
888:  A cow.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Um Sometimes, beside the barn, They have a special shelter for the cows to get under when it's raining. Have you ever heard anything like that?
888:  Uh No
interviewer:  Okay, uh What would you call a place where you keep the A place where you keep the horses? {NW}
888:  The barn house.
interviewer:  Okay. Um {NS} Where where where would they milk the cows?
888:  Where would they milk them at?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  They would milk them inside the barn house.
interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 Inside the barn #
interviewer:  Okay. Uh have you ever of anybody milking them outside the barn? {C: car tires screeching}
888:  Yes, I have. I've heard somebody do that.
interviewer:  Okay. Um I just asked you if uh {X} had ever milked the cows outside, right?
888:  Yes. They do milk 'em on the outside, too.
interviewer:  Okay, do you know of a special place Where they might just rub off, to Milk the cows, Have you ever heard of a special place like that?
888:  On the cow?
interviewer:  Um Usually just outside the barn. A kinda makeshift sorta place
888:  No, I don't I don't know.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Um Okay, you said they had hogs?
888:  Pigs, cows, chickens
interviewer:  Okay. Okay what's the difference between a hog and a pig?
888:  What's the difference from them?
interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  Well uh from a pig you can get bacon and from a hog you can't get bacon.
interviewer:  Oh. How come?
888:  How come?
interviewer:  Uh huh. I didn't know that.
888:  Well, uh, All I know that A pig has bacon and a hog has like this other kind of meat like That Rib- ribby kinda meat.
interviewer:  What?
888:  It's ribs Called that's called call the meat called ribs meat That's all I know. That's all.
interviewer:  Okay. Um Have you ever of a ever heard of a shoat?
888:  A shoat?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  No, I haven't.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Um Where would you where would you keep the hogs and pigs? Did you tell me?
888:  Uh, the hogs and the pi- #1 Pigs? #
interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # Yes.
888:  Well, I would keep 'em in a pen. Or in the shelter.
interviewer:  Okay what kind of a pen
888:  A pen where they can't get out and you know, run run all over the place.
interviewer:  Mm-hmm
888:  Stuff like that. Keep 'em boxed in.
interviewer:  Okay. Um It used to be when people, before they had refrigerators and stuff, They'd take their milk and their butter and they'd put it Um, like, In a can and put it down in a stream, and keep it cool, you know? You have a word for something like that?
888:  To keep it cool from melting I guess
interviewer:  Yeah. Yeah, you don't you have a word, for something like that?
888:  No, I don't.
interviewer:  Okay. What, um, What would you call The milk company here in town? I mean, other than the name of it. What would you call it?
888:  The Borton's company?
interviewer:  Yeah. Uh huh, other than the name, What would you call it?
888:  Milk company, I guess.
interviewer:  Uh huh. Okay, you might call it a creamery, Or you might call it a
888:  Dairy.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Okay, um Sometimes there's a place around the barn where you might Look at cows and the mules and other animals, Just walk around, you know it's a fairly Small place that would be fenced in. What would you call that place?
888:  I'd say The running running room. #1 exercise room #
interviewer:  #2 Okay. Okay. # Okay And then where would What would you call {X} What would you call a larger place, That had grass and stuff, Where you might let them out to graze?
888:  What would I call it?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  I'd say Grazing Grazing field.
interviewer:  Okay. Would you ever call it a pasture or a lot or a range?
888:  I'd call it a pasture.
interviewer:  Okay. Um You know when they used to raise cotton? They had to, uh They had to make it grow better, They had to go through and kinda thin it out. You know like, Take up every other plant, or something like that. Do you know what that's called?
888:  Picking up all the plants. I just say Fertilize it and Make it
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Okay. Sometimes they had to cut certain plants out {X}
888:  Weeds.
interviewer:  Okay. Okay, um {NS} Uh, cotton and corn You'd probably say grow in a what?
888:  Garden.
interviewer:  Okay. Or, if it was bigger
888:  Field.
interviewer:  What?
888:  Field.
interviewer:  Okay. Uh, and tobacco is grown in, uh,
888:  Field
interviewer:  Mm-kay and What kinds of things would you say are grown in a patch?
888:  Cotton. Stuff like that and Tomatoes #1 onions #
interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Okay. Uh, what's the difference between field and patch?
888:  A field and a patch?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  Well, the definition of a field is is you know, You can see a field but you can't hardly see a patch because it'd be A field you can see because it's not too thick. And a patch is kinda cruddy. {NS}
interviewer:  Uh okay, okay. Um is there any difference in the size?
888:  No, I wouldn't say different on the size but the way it looks is different From the way it looks the field and the and the patch.
interviewer:  Okay. Tell me some more, I don't quite understand.
888:  Well a field you can see, you know, The things on the field which are growing and a patch, you know, {NW} Like it's cabbage, you can't hardly see it because it's so close together. And it'd be a lot of stuff so close together that'd be growing. You can't hardly see what you got.
interviewer:  Okay. Okay, I get it. Okay. What all kinds of fences are there? Around here?
888:  Uh they got lawn fences, and they got brick fences, they got wooden fences they got
interviewer:  Yeah. Okay, what kinds of what would you call There's a kind of wooden fence that has Usually, they're painted white. And they have, uh, {X}. And, uh, {X}. The they're pointed at the top end of the fence {X} or something.
888:  Picket fence?
interviewer:  Okay. Okay, um {NS} Okay what other kinds of fences are there?
888:  Other kinds of fences?
interviewer:  Yes.
888:  Well, they got Wooden fences, they got, you know, iron fences, they got The barbed wire fences
interviewer:  What? What kinda fence?
888:  Barbed wire.
interviewer:  Okay. Yeah.
888:  And you know They got Say, aluminum fences.
interviewer:  Uh huh. What do you have different names for aluminum fences?
888:  Steel #1 steel fences. #
interviewer:  #2 Okay. # What about the kind of fence that's usually {X} it's woven, And it has, you know, um, holes in it about this big About 3 inches or 4 inches across
888:  What kinda fence would I call it
interviewer:  Yeah. Uh-huh.
888:  Well I'd say I wouldn't call it I'd just say I've seen brick fences like that. But, you know,
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  That's all I know. Brick fences I don't have a name for them but I just call it a brick fence.
interviewer:  Okay. Brick fence. Uh, you know You know the kind that has a The the wires like that, And there's a pole at the top and the the wire sticks up And if you try and climb it
888:  Oh, barbed wire fence?
interviewer:  Well No, {X}. It's like barbed wire and that it sticks up and it'll #1 Scratch you. #
888:  #2 Oh thorns? # Thorns? There's thorns on the edge of the fence?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  This one like this? {NW} There's one around and it goes up like This way and another piece going that way.
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I call it the thorns. On the end of the fence.
interviewer:  Thorns? #1 On the end of the fence? #
888:  #2 Yeah. #
interviewer:  But you don't have a name for the whole fence?
888:  No.
interviewer:  Okay okay. Um Let's see. {NS} Have you ever seen a kind of fence that's made out of, uh, Split rails? And the the fence {D: and that stuff is laid kinda} zig-zag fashion, Like this? You ever seen a fence like that?
888:  Zig-zag fashion?
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  You said going like that and then going up and going up
interviewer:  Yeah, well, like, You're looking straight down on it. From the air. You know how it goes ch-ch-ch-ch-ch like that.
888:  Yes, I seen a fence like that before.
interviewer:  What would you call it?
888:  I'd call it a Horizontal fence.
interviewer:  Okay. Um Okay, when you have a barbed wire fence, Uh, You go dig holes for the
888:  Poles. #1 For the holes and #
interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
888:  Poles
interviewer:  Okay, what's another Word for poles?
888:  Another word for poles?
interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  Well, uh The only word I can say is I just say poles. {NS}
interviewer:  Okay. Uh {X}
888:  Yeah a storm is drizzling now.
interviewer:  Are you saying what P-O-L, Is that what
888:  P-O-L-E.
interviewer:  Yeah, okay. Um Oh, okay. I think I don't know what what you think, But I think of a pole as being some tall, like, Telephone pole? You know? And And then I think of something short, As being called, well it also starts with a P, But it's I call it something else. {D: Have} you have another name for that?
888:  Do I have another name for it?
interviewer:  Yeah, instead of pole?
888:  A stump.
interviewer:  Okay. Okay.
888:  {NW}
interviewer:  {X} Oh yeah. What would you call A fence, or a wall, That's made of loose stone or rock that you might remove from a field?
888:  Loose stone gravel. {NS} Gravel.
interviewer:  Okay Uh the what would you call the s-- the wall, Or the fence that you'd make out of this stuff?
888:  What'd I call it?
interviewer:  Mm.
888:  Cement.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Um What what word would you use to describe your best dishes? Your most best dishes?
888:  China dishes.
interviewer:  Okay. So if you had a egg made out of that, you'd call it
888:  An egg made out of it?
interviewer:  Uh huh. You got china dishes, And then you got {D: Something egg}
888:  Egg egg dishes yes.
interviewer:  No no they're not dishes, They're made out of the same stuff but The china
888:  Dishes?
interviewer:  What? Not dishes, egg. {C: children playing in background}
888:  Oh, china egg.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Alright. {NS} Um {NS} {C: Laughs} Uh What would you use to carry water in?
888:  A pail.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Would it be made out of wood or metal?
888:  Uh wood. {X}
interviewer:  {X}
888:  Hey will y'all
interviewer:  Y'all keep the door closed now, okay? {C: addressing screaming/playing children}
888:  I don't know.
interviewer:  {NW} {NW}
888:  {X}
interviewer:  Okay. What would you Um Did I ask you if it would be made out of wood or metal?
888:  Yeah and I told you wood.
interviewer:  Okay. Um Would you call it something else if it was made out of metal?
888:  Uh {NW: Child screaming in background}. Wooden pail. #1 I mean #
interviewer:  #2 Okay. # {X} metal.
888:  Metal? I would say {NW} No I wouldn't call it anything else.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. What if it was made out of plastic?
888:  Plastic? I'd I'd call it {NW} {C: Children in background} Plastic pail.
interviewer:  Okay.
888:  Hey keep the door closed.
interviewer:  {X} Um Okay, do you ever heard of a Of a, a pail, or bucket, Or something like that, Like, that you might keep in the kitchen, Where you throw scraps that you can use for the pigs?
888:  Hey, you don't have to pay me a-- {C: Addressing other person(s)}
interviewer:  Okay. What what would you What would you call {NW} {C: Screaming children} A kind of bucket that or {X} That you might that you might keep in the kitchen And throw scraps in For the pigs.
888:  I call it a Slop slop can.
interviewer:  Okay. Okay, um What all kinds of cooking utensils are there?
888:  {NS} Cooking utensils? Um {NS} {C: Child interrupting}
interviewer:  Keep the door closed.
888:  Hey, get out, shut that door closed and get outta here boy. {NS} {X} {NW} Cooking pans
interviewer:  Okay.
888:  Cooking pots. Electric skillets. And Just about everything that you can
interviewer:  Okay, what would you fry eggs in? {NW}
888:  A frying pan.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. What's it made out of?
888:  What's it made out of? {X} It's made out of, uh, Just a plain skillet That's round, and {NW} It's black.
interviewer:  Okay is there any difference between a frying pan and a skillet?
888:  No, it's the same.
interviewer:  Okay. Um What are {D: they} made out of? Of a heavy iron or is it made out of a wooden {X} or what?
888:  It'll be, just Uh, thin, It'll be made out of, uh, Aluminum steel {X} Some parts is made out of Steel.
interviewer:  Okay. Um What would you call something that's big and black That you have out in the backyard that you might use to heat up water?
888:  A big steel steel pot. Steel.
interviewer:  Okay and uh another word for pot?
888:  Uh Another word for pot?
interviewer:  Yep.
888:  Uh Can.
interviewer:  Okay. And if it was If you were gonna fix tea, You might call it a tea
888:  Teapot.
interviewer:  Okay or a tea what? {X} Anything else?
888:  Tea can.
interviewer:  What?
888:  Tea can.
interviewer:  Okay. Um What would you call The container that you might put cut flowers in in the house?
888:  What kind of container I would call it
interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Uh I'd call it a Flower can, or Something that I could store, you know, Different stuff in like that.
interviewer:  Okay. {C: blank audio} I'm talking about the kind of thing that would be, uh, Um A nice kinda thing, you know, glass Usually Or pottery and it would be shaped kinda like this And you put flowers in it
888:  A mold?
interviewer:  A what?
888:  I'd call it a mold. A vase. {NW} {C: Children playing} A vase, a mold.
interviewer:  Uh, what was the last thing you said?
888:  A vase, uh, a mold.
interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 Mold. #
interviewer:  How do you spell that?
888:  Uh, M-O {X} S-E I guess.
interviewer:  Oh
888:  #1 {D: M-O-R-S-E-S.} #
interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Okay. And how do you spell the the other thing you said?
888:  Vase?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  V-A-S-E.
interviewer:  Okay. Um What all {NS} Okay, what would you call The stuff that you you set the table with, For supper, that you put beside the plate?
888:  What would I call it?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  Uh Napkin. #1 Forks #
interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh #
888:  Spoons.
interviewer:  Yeah what else?
888:  And plates.
interviewer:  Okay. Forks, spoon, and
888:  Plate.
interviewer:  Okay. If If you had Steak, that wasn't very tender you'd have to put out steak
888:  Sauce.
interviewer:  Okay, or To cut it, You'd have to put out steak
888:  {NS} {C: Children playing} {NS} Knife steak knife. #1 Steak knife. #
interviewer:  #2 What? # Okay. And if you had to put out more than one you'd have to have steak If you
888:  Steak more than one?
interviewer:  Yeah, just more than one.
888:  Steak steak knives.
interviewer:  Okay. Um Let's see After somebody washes the dishes, You might say, after she washes the dishes, then she what them in in cold water in hot water?
888:  Uh, rinses the dishes.
interviewer:  Okay. Um What do you call the cloth or the rag that you use {D: in} washing {C: background noise // unintelligible speaking} Okay, what do you call the cloth or the rag that you use in washing dishes?
888:  Dish rag
interviewer:  Okay. And what do you call the cloth or the rag that you use in drying dishes?
888:  The uh Kitchen cloth.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. And what would you call the small square of terry cloth that you use to bathe your face?
888:  I call it Just a regular Rag or a cloth.
interviewer:  Okay. Uh After taking a bath, You dry yourself off with a
888:  Towel.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. And If you go in the kitchen and turn on the water, You turn the water on at the
888:  Faucet.
interviewer:  Okay. And if it's outside where you hook up the hose, You have to turn on the
888:  Faucet.
interviewer:  Okay. And, um, {NS} {X} {NW} Uh, let's see It used to be when they bought {X} Uh, flour, In real big quantities, They'd buy them in these big, round, wooden things that you'd call a bid, wooden
888:  Barrel.
interviewer:  Okay. And, um, Something that's like a barrel, but that You They they have, uh, That beer comes in, sometimes, {D: now} you'd call a beer what?
888:  A keg.
interviewer:  Okay. Now. If you've got a keg, It has a little {X} that you can turn on To get the beer out. What would you call that little thing on it?
888:  Uh Stopper. Plug, or
interviewer:  Okay, this is to get it out with.
888:  To get it out?
interviewer:  Uh huh.
888:  The faucet.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Alright. Um You might say, It was so cold last night that our water pipes
888:  Busted.
interviewer:  Okay. And Uh I hope they won't what again tonight?
888:  Freeze.
interviewer:  Okay. Or using busted
888:  Bust. Um break
interviewer:  Use it use the same word.
888:  Busted.
interviewer:  Okay. You but tonight I hope they won't
888:  Burst.
interviewer:  Okay. Um If you were just gonna use Okay go on back to busted.
888:  #1 Burst #
interviewer:  #2 {X} # Okay if you were gonna use that same word, you might say Uh Tonight, I hope they won't
888:  Freeze to death #1 Freeze. #
interviewer:  #2 {X} # If you were gonna use busted.
888:  Oh, bust.
interviewer:  Okay. Alright. And, then you might say, uh, They have What many times before?
888:  Bust before.
interviewer:  Mm-kay. Um {NS} Used to be you could buy glasses in pretty large quantities, And do you a name that they could uh, The thing that they came in, that the molasses came in?
888:  Uh, barrel.
interviewer:  Okay. Have you ever heard it called a stand?
888:  No.
interviewer:  Okay. Um {NS} Say you had a salt box or something That didn't have a spout. And you'd have to Uh Get something to pour it into something smaller, {D: And you might now} Let me see. Okay. You'd have to get something That was shaped like If I could get it to do it Yeah. Like that. And there and pour the salt in like this to get it to come out Down here and the {X} over there. What would you call this thing?
888:  I would call it a spout. Sifter.
interviewer:  Oh Okay. Or Would you ever call it a funnel or a tunnel?
888:  I'd call it a funnel.
interviewer:  Okay. Um {NS} {C: Scream/shout in background} What would You use to Urge horses to go faster if you're riding in a buggy? {NS}