252: Well you store it. Interviewer: mm-hmm 252: Store it in the barn. Interviewer: Do you ever hear of a crib or? 252: Crib? Yes. #1 mm-hmm. # Interviewer: #2 crib # 252: Yeah. Interviewer: What does the crib look like? 252: Damn if I don't know I Interviewer: #1 never been a little a low-born. # 252: #2 You # Interviewer: You just heard the 252: #1 Just heard the word. # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh # Have you ever heard of a granary? or granary? 252: No Interviewer: And 252: And I wouldn't know what it was if I did. Interviewer: But I don't think they have those in this part of the country like um where would you Did people around here have cows? Any of them? 252: {NW} Out there in the woods yes but not down here on the island there's not a cow here. Interviewer: Uh-huh But someone did have cows um Do you know what sort of shelter they they'd have for them what they? Where they'd keep the cows? 252: No Interviewer: You'd What about horses? Did anyone have horses here? 252: {NW} Just for the pleasure of having a pony something like that. Interviewer: mm-hmm. What buildings would they have for the horse? 252: Well I had mine down there in what I call the barn. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Just a shed. {NS} Interviewer: And you'd turn them out to graze? in the 252: Yeah I usually went down there and fed that damn mule. {NS} too damn lazy to get out and eat. And there ain't nothing out here the graze on sand {NS} Interviewer: Uh-huh. Well uh when people who who have farms um Did they have a lot of cows they'd let the cows graze in the? 252: Field. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What did you call that? the the p- 252: Pasture. Interviewer: Uh-huh Did you ever hear of um having a fenced in place out in the pasture where you could leave the cows overnight milking 'em? 252: {NW} I don't know. I never milk no cow. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a cow pen or a milk calf? 252: Mm yeah. Interviewer: What did you 252: #1 A cow pen? # Interviewer: #2 What did you # Uh-huh 252: yeah about the milk guy but I don't know nothing bout that. Interviewer: mm-hmm. Did you ever see a cow pen? Do you know what it looks like? 252: No. Interviewer: And {NS} the fenced in place around the barn where the animals can walk around you call that the? 252: I don't know what you call well I'm telling you I'm not no farmer. Interviewer: Well that's okay. I'm I'm just interested in um which expressions you've heard of. You know? um Do you ever Your people talk about a stable a lot? or a cow lot 252: #1 or a barnyard # Interviewer: #2 Well we talk # 252: about the stable. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What do you think of a what do you associate a stable with? 252: The shed something you lock 'em up in. Interviewer: mm-hmm. Horses or cows? 252: Horses and cows. Interviewer: Uh-huh What about hogs? Where would you keep hogs? If a person did have a a place for hogs. 252: Keep 'em in a pen. Interviewer: mm-hmm 252: Most of 'em for years run wild around here. Interviewer: Oh they did? 252: Oh yeah. Interviewer: Where they dangerous? 252: No. They just just fed all over a hundred and thirty two thousand acres of that land {X}. Interviewer: mm-hmm 252: Eight or ten people had hog claims. and they'd just run wild. Interviewer: Had hog claims? 252: Yeah. Interviewer: What do you mean? 252: Well they Every man that owned hogs cuts his mark in his ear. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Each one of 'em his on record. Interviewer: mm-hmm 252: And When they were little pigs A month old they would cut their hog mark in their ear and turn 'em loose and they just fed wild. Interviewer: Hmm 252: But when they got ready to catch 'em they would take a couple dogs out there and bay 'em and you could catch 'em. Interviewer: mm-hmm {NS} 252: That went on for years and years. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Until another a company Georgia Pacific bought {X}. and give 'em six months to get their hogs out. And what they didn't get out They're wild game now. You kill them just like deer. Interviewer: Do people hunt them now? 252: Oh yes definitely. Interviewer: They're good to eat huh? 252: You ain't cu- they're just as good as any hog you'll ever eat. Interviewer: Hmm. 252: Yeah they're wild game. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Same as deer now. Interviewer: Oh You said you had chickens. Where would you keep them? 252: Keep 'em in a pen in a fence. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Sit there with gun to keep somebody from stealing. {NW} Interviewer: Did you ever have any little shelters for the chickens? 252: Uh-huh. {NS} That's what we call chicken pens. Interviewer: mm-hmm. What about uh a place for the mother hen and the little chicks? {NS} 252: And then what we call a chicken coop. Interviewer: Uh-huh. How's that built? 252: That's just a little shed forms {X} Interviewer: mm-hmm. Auxiliary: Excuse me a minute. You got a You got a five? 252: A five? Auxiliary: Uh-huh. 252: Yeah. You don't Did you say a five? Auxiliary: Yeah. 252: No I have a ten. Auxiliary: No that won't do any good. 252: Well I don't have a five. I might have Interviewer: #1 Got two fives? # Auxiliary: #2 No # Interviewer: #1 No # Auxiliary: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 One ten. # Auxiliary: #2 {NS} # 252: I've got five ones. Interviewer: No. Auxiliary: Well give her five Uh Give me five ones. and I'll give her the I know that's not right {NW} Give her five ones and that'll make ten. No 252: {X} Auxiliary: #1 Give # Interviewer: #2 Give # Auxiliary: #1 Nope # Interviewer: #2 Give him five ones. # Auxiliary: #1 Here that was my five. # Interviewer: #2 That's your five. # #1 Okay you can # Auxiliary: #2 But you still ain't gonna like it alright. # Interviewer: That won't work out right. 252: {NW} Auxiliary: Hmm Okay I'm still trying to get five dollars. {NS} Interviewer: If you wanted to make a hen start laying what could you put in her nest to fool her? 252: Just some straw in there is all I ever put in there. Interviewer: mm-hmm. Do you ever hear of the nest egg? 252: Yeah. Yeah I've had several nest eggs. Interviewer: Uh huh. What would that be made out of? 252: Damn if I know It's made out of some kinda plastic stuff Interviewer: Uh-huh. You said you had a real good set of dishes. Your dishes would be made out of? 252: Clay. {NW} Interviewer: Something that that breaks real easy. You'd be 252: Sure. Interviewer: What what are your best dishes? 252: {X} Interviewer: It'd be Ch- 252: China. Interviewer: Uh-huh. If you had an egg made out of that That'd be a? 252: Counter egg Interviewer: Uh-huh and A hen on a nest of eggs is called a 252: A Setting Interviewer: Hmm? 252: Just called setting on them Setting on them eggs. Interviewer: You call her a Setting hen then? 252: Yeah Interviewer: What about the You know when you're when you're eating chicken There's a bone that goes like this. 252: It's called a wishbone. Interviewer: Any stories about that? 252: Yeah You supposed to break it and the one who gets the shortest end supposed to make a wish. That's a whole bunch of bull. Interviewer: Did um 252: No it doesn't work. {NW} It's just some kinda bull somebody thought of two hundred years ago. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Um A place where they had a lot milk cows and they sell the milk and butter A place like that would be called a? 252: A dairy. Interviewer: Did you ever hear that word dairy used to mean anything else besides the big farm like that? 252: No Interviewer: Do you remember before they had refrigerators um where y'all used to keep milk and butter? To keep it from going bad. 252: In the ice-box. Interviewer: mm-hmm. Do y'all have an ice-box ever since you could remember? 252: Well mostly we had something for cooling systems. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 252: Yes. Interviewer: #1 Yes # Interviewer: #2 Did you ever? # 252: Did you wanna say something? Interviewer: No. 252: These uh coming around here might say feeding time. These around here they'll they already wanting to fly. Interviewer: What kind of birds are they? 252: There's the black birds martins sparrows Interviewer: Hmm that's interesting How long 252: They'll be right back. Interviewer: How long have you had 252: That? Interviewer: a bird feeder? 252: Oh about six months. Costs me more money to feed them than it does her to feed me. Interviewer: {NW} Did Do you ever hear about a way of storing potatoes or turnips here in the Winter? 252: No like I'm telling yeah I never did indulge in no farming. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: So therefore I don't know much about it. #1 The only way I # Interviewer: #2 You always had a garden? # 252: stored them was to eat them. Interviewer: {NW} Say if you planted sweet potatoes if you planted just a small area with just sweet potatoes you'd call that a sweet potato? 252: Bed. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And I know that um I know y'all never did any cotton raising or anything 252: #1 No. # Interviewer: #2 around here. # But did you ever hear um when people would spin the cotton out with the hoe? Did you ever hear of what um what they said they were doing? When they'd 252: #1 they'd go out there with the # Interviewer: #2 Uh-uh. # Did you ever hear the expression chopping or scraping cotton? 252: Um nope. Interviewer: If you were gonna plant a garden here what sort of grass would you have to watch out for? 252: sand spur Weeds. Interviewer: mm-hmm. Any special kinds of weeds? 252: Yeah every kind you can think of or ever heard of Interviewer: What are #1 I'm sorry # 252: #2 Grass # Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: and weeds. Interviewer: mm-hmm. sand spurs would be the biggest problem. 252: Yes. Out here especially. Interviewer: mm-hmm. Does anybody kill them? 252: If you dig them up by the roots. Interviewer: That Do you have any poison or anything for them? 252: Yeah you can get a spray that kills it. Interviewer: What different kinds of fences did people used to have around the property? 252: They had wire fences wood fences And log fences. Interviewer: What's a log fence? 252: Well you just make a fence out of rails Interviewer: The one to go in and out? #1 Like that? # 252: #2 mm-hmm. # Yep. Interviewer: What different kinds of um um wood fences did they have? 252: Well they would just slats Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Boards Sharpen the top point of 'em. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. You call that a? 252: That's a wood fence is all I know what it is. Interviewer: What about picket or pail? 252: Picket fences that's what they call it. Picket fence. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What about the kind of wire they use now the twisted wire that'll catch your clothes on it? 252: Barbed-wire Interviewer: Uh-huh. How would you go about setting up a barbed-wire fence? 252: By running it around your house or your yard in about three layers. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: About a foot apart. Two feet apart. Interviewer: What um first of all you have to dig holes for the? 252: Posts. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Then you'd take the wire and you'd? 252: Take and stretch it around your yard. Interviewer: For one 252: From one post to another. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Do you ever see a a fence or wall made out of loose stone or rock? 252: Yeah Interviewer: What was that called? 252: A rock fence. Interviewer: mm-hmm. Did they used to have those in this section or? 252: Not down here but down there in the woods where I've hunted I happened to see one of them. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: They're made completely out of rocks and stones. By hand. Interviewer: Well they just Did people try to trap them and smooth them or 252: Uh on some they did and others they just fit them in. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Um What did people used to use to carry water in? 252: Buckets pails washtubs jugs #1 Jars # Interviewer: #2 Is there a # 252: Pots Pans Interviewer: Is there a difference to you between a a bucket and a pail? 252: Yeah one is usually wooden and the other one's galvanized. Interviewer: Which is the wooden? 252: The pail. Interviewer: mm-hmm. And the bucket is? 252: Is galvanized. Interviewer: What about the thing you can use for carrying food out to the hogs in? 252: {NW} Interviewer: You call that a? 252: Hog trough? Interviewer: Or the thing you you the bucket or pail you would carry it out in? 252: Well you could use anything you got Interviewer: Uh-huh. Well did you ever hear of a slop bucket or swill pail? 252: Swill pail yeah. Interviewer: That's what you used to call it? 252: mm-hmm. Interviewer: And the thing that um people could use for frying eggs in would be a? 252: {NS} A frying pan. Interviewer: mm-hmm. Do you ever see a frying pan that had little legs on it? You could 252: Yeah Interviewer: Do you remember what that was called? 252: Yeah Frying pan. Interviewer: It didn't matter if it had legs on it or not? 252: It make no difference to me. Interviewer: Do you ever hear the expression the spider? 252: The spider? Yeah mm-hmm. Interviewer: For for a frying pan? 252: mm-hmm. Interviewer: What does the spider look like? 252: It was a smaller thing. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: Than the regular old big frying pan. Interviewer: Was it flat or did it have legs? 252: It had legs on it. {NS} How much longer you gonna interrogate me? Interviewer: Well 252: I'm getting hungry now. Interviewer: You wanna wait until this tape runs out? It should be about ten to fifteen minutes. 252: yeah I guess I can stand it #1 that much longer. # Interviewer: #2 Or I could # Stop it now I think. 252: No I can stand it fifteen more minutes Interviewer: Um if you cut some flowers and wanted to keep them in the house you'd put 'em in a? 252: {NS} In a vase. Interviewer: And 252: When I came up you didn't have no vase You had a jar you put 'em in. Interviewer: {NS} How A long time ago on Monday women would get all the dirty clothes together and go do the? 252: Washing. Interviewer: And on Tuesday? 252: They do the drying. Interviewer: And then they'd? 252: Ironing. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Nowadays um you can just send your clothes to a? 252: Laundry. Interviewer: Did people used to use the word laundry much or just say I have 252: When I was coming up honey they didn't have no such thing, you done your own laundry. #1 With a scrub board # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh # Uh-huh Which did people use the word though? Did they say I'm gonna do the laundry or did they say? 252: No I'm gonna do the washing. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: They ain't never heard of no laundry. Interviewer: What would you know the big black thing you had out in the yard for heating the water? 252: It was a wash pot. Interviewer: Uh-huh Any other name for that? 252: yeah the scalding pot. Interviewer: mm-hmm What about something that uh little thing you has a spout to it you could heat up water to make hot tea in? You call that a tea? 252: Teapot? Interviewer: Or something that you put on the stove that you heat up. 252: Oh the coffee pot. Interviewer: Or tea? yeah so looks like a black thing and it had a long spout to it and you heat the water in it you put it directly on the stove. 252: We didn't have none of that. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a kettle? #1 Or a kettle? # 252: #2 Oh a kettle # yeah Interviewer: Uh-huh 252: yeah Interviewer: Did you ever people call the wash pot a kettle? 252: Oh yeah Interviewer: And if you were setting the table or next to each plate for people to eat with you give everyone a? 252: Give 'em something to eat. Interviewer: Well for them to to eat with though. 252: A spoon and forks and knives. Interviewer: And So for someone to cut their food with you'd give 'em a? 252: You give 'em a knife Interviewer: And if the dishes were dirty you'd say I have to go? 252: If they were dirty I would get up and leave too. Interviewer: Well it's after supper. You have to? 252: Clean the dishes. Interviewer: Mm-kay So you you say you have to go what the dishes? 252: Wash the dishes. Interviewer: And after she washes the dishes then she? What them and clear water? 252: She rinses them. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And the cloth or rag you use when when you're washing them? You call that the? 252: Wash rag. Interviewer: And when you're drying them? 252: The dry rag. Interviewer: What about um to bathe your face with? You have a? The cloth or rag you use? 252: The wash cloth. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: We call it a wash rag. Interviewer: Uh-huh And to dry yourself off with? 252: A towel. Interviewer: And say if you were gonna pour something from a big enough container into something with a narrow mouth to keep it from spilling out you'd pour it through a? 252: Strainer. Interviewer: Or something that's shaped like this. You call that a? Do you ever hear of a tunnel or a funnel 252: mm-hmm. Interviewer: And something that um people make with sugar cane? 252: They call that syrup. Interviewer: mm-hmm. Any other name for that? 252: Sorghum. Interviewer: mm-hmm. What's the difference? 252: It's all syrup. Interviewer: Do you ever hear it called mol-? 252: Molasses? Interviewer: Uh-huh. Is that the same thing? 252: I don't know. I've never eaten any. Interviewer: Did you ever say you wanna work with sugar cane? 252: Oh yeah They grind sugar cane. Interviewer: To make the syrup? 252: Syrup. Sugar. Interviewer: You know when they uh grinding sugar cane. After they've ground the juice out the the trash of the sugar cane the fibery sort of stuff Do you ever hear a name for that? 252: #1 yeah # Interviewer: #2 Do you know the name? # 252: What is it? Interviewer: Do you ever hear the term bagasse? #1 Or bagasse? # 252: #2 No # {NS} No Interviewer: And um If you were going to buy molasses or syrup from the store what would it come in? 252: It'd come in bottles Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Jugs Interviewer: Do you ever hear of a stand of molasses? 252: Nah. Interviewer: Or a stand of lard? 252: Nah Interviewer: And something that flour used to come in? 252: Came in sacks. Interviewer: Made out of? 252: Cloth. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What about something that if you bought about a hundred pounds of flour come in a big wooden? 252: Barrels? Interviewer: Uh-huh And the thing that runs around the barrel to hold the wood in place? 252: Hoops. Interviewer: And something smaller than a barrel that nails used to come in? 252: Keg. Interviewer: And You know what a a beer keg or water keg 252: yeah I'm most familiar with that now we getting down to my Interviewer: {NW} The The thing you turn to get the 252: Spigot. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What about in your yard? What you can hook your hose up to? 252: Spigot. Interviewer: And at the sink? 252: Spigot. Interviewer: The spigot off the mm-kay. Ask If you were driving horses and wanted them to go faster you would hit them with the? 252: Anything you get your hands on {NW} Interviewer: Something that they have leather? 252: Whip Interviewer: Uh-huh. And nowadays if you bought some things at the store the grocer would put 'em in a? 252: A bag. Interviewer: Made out of? 252: Paper. Interviewer: Is a a bag and a sack the same th-? 252: Same thing yeah. Interviewer: What about the the thing that that Auxiliary: Oh lord. Interviewer: The rough brown material that um a bag or sack that that they used to come in? {NS} 252: We call that a croker sack. {NW} You better cut it off. Interviewer: {X} 252: Seventy-two spaces. Interviewer: Really? That's large. 252: yeah. I think we got more reservations for this Easter and this art festival than what we can afford to. #1 All we've # Interviewer: #2 Art # 252: Art festival is Easter Sunday and the next Saturday and Sunday is the art festival. twentieth and twenty-first. Interviewer: It's gonna be here on Cedar Teeth? 252: Oh yeah. That's the biggest thing we have here. Interviewer: Is It's an annual event? 252: Every year. yeah and my god they come from Last year There was so many people in this town. That it would take you thirty minutes to walk the length of the block if you could walk. Interviewer: Gosh. 252: They figured there was thirty five thousand people here and the population of this is seven-hundred. This town So can you imagine people parked down here at this bridge and had to walk to town. Interviewer: Hmm. And who participates in the art festival? Do people? 252: Local people. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 252: #2 Oh # No you mean uh brings the paintings? Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: Honey all over the damn country. State and out of the state. Interviewer: Gosh. 252: It's the damnedest sight you've ever seen. Auxiliary: Hmm. They went on around I guess they'll be back. 252: yeah they'll stop over there at the offices. Did have you turn the lights Auxiliary: #1 yeah # 252: #2 on? # Interviewer: Oh Did you mention the croker sack? Any other name for that? Did you ever hear of coke sack or gunny sack? 252: Gunny sack yeah. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: But the other one no. Interviewer: What about a if you were gonna carry some corn to the mill to be ground what would you call the amount you could take at one time? 252: I am telling you honey. I ain't never carried no corn to no mill. And I don't know nothing about Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: farming. Interviewer: Do you ever hear the expression of turn 252: #1 No. # Interviewer: #2 corn? # Or What if someone was carrying some wood had all the wood they could carry? 252: Then they'd have an armful. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 252: They had all they could carry. Interviewer: And on a wagon that didn't have a full load you said he just had a? What of wood? 252: Half load. Interviewer: Uh-huh. And if the lamp wasn't burning You have to screw in a new? nowadays you'd screw in a new? 252: Burner. Interviewer: Or a new if it's an electric? 252: Bulb. Interviewer: Okay. And to carry the wash out to hang on the lines you would carry it out in a clothes? 252: Basket. Interviewer: And if you open a bottle and wanted to shut it back up you would stick in a? Auxiliary: {D: Bird or Burt} 252: If you've done what? Interviewer: #1 If you open a bottle # Auxiliary: #2 {X} # Interviewer: #1 and wanted to close it back up # Auxiliary: #2 {X} # Interviewer: #1 You could stick in a? # Auxiliary: #2 I've been waiting on you. # 252: A stopper. Interviewer: Mm-kay. What would the stopper be made out? 252: Cork. Interviewer: And Say there was a log across the road. You'd say I tied a chain to it and I? 252: Drug it. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And you say we have what? 252: Moved it. Interviewer: Many logs out of this road. We have? 252: Cleared it. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Well using the word drag you say we have? 252: Drug it. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And If man had a load of wood on his wagon who's driving along You'd say he's {NS} doing what? {NS} 252: Do you have a load of wood on his wagon? Interviewer: Uh-huh. You say he's drawing wood or hauling wood? 252: He's hauling wood. Interviewer: And this is a musical instrument that you play like this. 252: It's a mouth ore Interviewer: mm-hmm. What about one that goes like this. 252: That's um Jew's harp Interviewer: mm-hmm. Do you ever play one of those? 252: Nah. Interviewer: You never played 252: #1 no I never # Interviewer: #2 anything else? # 252: had too much musical instinct. no. Interviewer: Oh. 252: {NW} Interviewer: Did you Did you ever say you have horses when you were little? 252: No. We had We had a horse out here that we bought for her granddaughter. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: For about three years. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: And we give her away to get rid of her. {NS} Interviewer: You really got 252: She was a nuisance. Interviewer: Uh-huh. You ever see a horse and a wagon? Pulling a wagon? 252: Oh yeah. Interviewer: You know if you have a wagon and two horses there's a long wooden piece that comes between 252: #1 yeah but # Interviewer: #2 the horses. # 252: I don't know what it is. Interviewer: Do you ever hear of a tongue or a pole or? 252: Tongue yeah. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What about with a buggy? Those wooden pieces on each side? 252: yeah I don't Interviewer: Do you ever hear shafts 252: #1 Shafts # Interviewer: #2 or bills? # 252: yes. Interviewer: And you know on a wagon wheel um starting with the inside you have the hub and the spokes come out and they fit into the? 252: To the wheel. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What part of the wheel touches the ground? 252: All of it. Interviewer: mm-hmm. Do you ever hear of a felly or rim of a? 252: No. Interviewer: And if you have a a horse hitched to a wagon barbed wood that the trace is fastened onto? 252: Tacked and No {X} You talking Greek to me now. Interviewer: {NW} Do you ever hear people talk about a swingletree or singletree? 252: Single tree yeah. Interviewer: What about double singletree or 252: #1 I don't know # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 252: nothing about that Interviewer: mm-hmm. When you have uh {X} on a car even the things that holds one wheel to the other is the? 252: It's an axle. Interviewer: And if you wanted break up the ground um for planting you'd break it up with a? 252: Plow. Interviewer: Are there different kinds of plows? or? 252: yeah they There's the horsing plow. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Now they have machinery that do us it. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Tractors. Interviewer: Do you ever see something that has a lot of teeth in it? That breaks up the ground finer than a plow does? 252: yeah. And I don't know what it's called either. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Do you ever hear of harrow or harrow? 252: Harrow yeah. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: mm-hmm they're harrowing the ground. Interviewer: What about if someone was gonna chop a log. Do you ever see people make an x-shaped frame like this to set the log in? 252: mm-hmm. It's called a seahorse. Interviewer: mm-hmm. What about the the A-shaped frame that carpenters use? that they It's like this and it has a piece on the top and they use two of these and set a board on them if they're gonna saw a board? 252: That's called a a horse too I think. #1 I'm not sure. # Interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 252: {D: stalk} a seahorse. Interviewer: Uh-huh. And I would straighten my hair using a comb and a? 252: Brush. Interviewer: And if I was gonna use that I would say I'd say I was gonna? 252: Brush my hair. Interviewer: And And Something that you'd put in a pistol would be a? 252: Bullet. Interviewer: Or another name for that? 252: Cartridge. Interviewer: And you'd sharpen a straight razor on a leather? 252: With a hone. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What about the leather? 252: Razor strap. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Do you remember when they had razors like? 252: Oh yeah. My daddy used to sharpen his razor all the time on the strap. The straight razor. Interviewer: Those were pretty dangerous aren't they? 252: Well if you know what you're doing and barbers still you use them you know? Interviewer: They do? 252: Oh yes. All your barbers use straight razors. Interviewer: mm-hmm. They shave closer? 252: Mm-hmm Well they can shave better and faster with them. Interviewer: mm-hmm. What about something you'd sharpen a small knife on? 252: That is called a hone. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Or a {D: whip draw.} Interviewer: mm-hmm. What about um larger tools like an ax? How would you sharpen them? 252: On a grind stone. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Or with a file. Most of them use a grind stone. Interviewer: That's a larger 252: #1 mm-hmm. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 252: That's something you ride like a bicycle. And turn that grind stone while you pedaling it. Interviewer: You've done that before. 252: I've seen it done. I've never done it. Interviewer: Uh-huh. For something that children play on that you take a board and fix it like this and it goes up and down. 252: Seahorse. Interviewer: Mm-kay. If you saw some children playing on that you'd say they were? 252: Riding. Interviewer: Okay. What about taking a board and fixing it down at both ends and children would jump up and down on the middle of it. Do you ever hear of doing that? 252: yeah. {NW} What's it called? Interviewer: Do you ever hear of a bouncing board? or a joggling board? 252: Bouncing board yeah. Interviewer: How would you build one of those? 252: {NW} What you do is you just most When we were kids lay it across the log Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: And you jump on one end and throw you up in the air and when you come back down it'd on the board it'd throw him up in the air. Interviewer: Sounds kind of dangerous? 252: {NW} yeah but when you were kids you don't see no danger. Interviewer: {NW} Do you ever uh say you want to take a board and fix it in the middle and spin around and around? 252: Nope. Interviewer: Sort of like a merry-go-round that you make at home. Did you ever? 252: {NW} Interviewer: What about tying a long rope to a tree limb and putting a seat on it. You'd make a? 252: Call it a swing. Interviewer: And something you'd use for carrying coal in? 252: Honey we don't know what coal is down here outside of just hearing about it. Interviewer: Uh-huh You say you had a a wood stove um. The thing that runs from the stove up to the chimney is the? 252: Smoke stack. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Um And if you wanted to move bricks or something heavy like that you'd move 'em with a? 252: Wheelbarrow. Interviewer: mm-hmm. Do you ever hear of another name for wheelbarrows? 252: No I don't think. Interviewer: Do you ever hear of Georgia buggy? 252: {NW} Interviewer: And the thing that people drive nowadays they call that a? 252: A car. Interviewer: Any other names for a car? 252: Jeeps Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Wagons Interviewer: And 252: Airplanes Interviewer: What about another name for car though? 252: A buggy. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um If something was squeaking to lubricate it you'd say you had to? 252: Oil it. Interviewer: Or you put the {X} 252: You grease it. Interviewer: Mm-kay. You say yesterday he? He did that to his car you say yesterday he? 252: He greased it. Interviewer: And if grease got all over your hands you'd say your hands were all? 252: Greasy Interviewer: And if your door hinge was squeaking you'd just? 252: Put a little oil on that. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What did people use to burn in lamps? 252: Kerosene Coal oil Interviewer: mm-hmm. Do you ever hear people um people making a lamp themselves using a rag and a bottle and some kerosene? 252: yeah Interviewer: How'd they make it? 252: By putting the kerosene in the bottle and putting the rag in the neck of it Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: and sticking fire to it. Interviewer: What would they call it? 252: {NW} They call 'em lamps. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: {NW} Interviewer: Do you ever hear of a flambeau 252: Yes ma'am I sure have. And they call that that. Interviewer: They called it? 252: Flambeau. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: The kind of flambeau I use is a different flambeau Interviewer: What kind do you use? 252: When I'm fishing at night Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: I rag wrap one of these croker bags around an iron rod Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Approximately a foot long Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: This croker bag and pour gas on it and set it a fire. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: And it scares them fish out of their wits at night. Interviewer: Uh-huh. You hold on to the end of the rod and? 252: No I stick it down in the little place I got in my boat. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: And it's it's about six feet long {D: it's up that high above on a scale.} Interviewer: The rod's about? 252: mm-hmm. Interviewer: Hmm. 252: And that fire's just a burning. I light up the whole area. And it scares them fish into screaming fits. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 252: Now that's what we call a flambeau Similar to the little bottle. Interviewer: That's pretty common around here. 252: Used to be. They'd about outlawed it now because of the gas ration. You use gasoline on that. Interviewer: What do people use now #1 to get them light? # 252: #2 Hit light. # It's not fit to run off a battery. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 252: That you got on your head and you just flash it out there with the water and scare those fish. Interviewer: You said people make noise too When they just to scare the fish? 252: Well they beat on their boats stomp on the seats in the boat This loud it will even scare you. #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Well I guess it would if you didn't know what was going on. 252: {NW} Interviewer: Um Inside the tire of a car you have the inner? 252: Inner tube Interviewer: And someone had just built a boat and they were gonna put it in the water for the first time you'd say they were gonna? 252: Oh you're gonna launch it. Interviewer: mm-hmm. What different kinds of boats are there around here? 252: There are bird dogs skip boats launches sailboats Interviewer: What do the launches look like? 252: They're a small boats around twenty twenty-four feet long with a little cabin on them. Interviewer: Are they pointed or flat? 252: Oh they're pointed definitely. Interviewer: At both ends?