Interviewer: Here we go now In the last part of the tape we were talking about uh Uh you were talking about water a glass of water Now if you take this glass and uh it fell off the sink what would it do 255: It'd break Interviewer: Mm-hmm and you'd say the glass fell and 255: Was broken? uh As the glass fell it was broken or broke The glass fell and broke to pieces #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm really # And Let's see And then you might say I didn't do it Or uh do you use that word we're talking about? 255: I didn't I didn't I did not break it Interviewer: Mm-hmm And someone has blank that glass 255: Someone has broken that glass Interviewer: Right Now let's see If I ask you how much you did you drink you would say I like a lot of it 255: How much did I drink Interviewer: Yeah and you say I #1 blank a lot of it # 255: #2 Yes I drank a # I drank a glass full Interviewer: and then you would say to me How mu- how much do- Have you 255: How much did you drink Interviewer: Right and how much have you 255: drank How much uh How much have you no if I was in a conversation with you and you were wondering and I asked you how much did you drink Interviewer: Mm-hmm 255: #1 Is that what you want? alright # Interviewer: #2 yeah okay # And uh then we say we sure do blank a lot of water 255: We sure We sure do drink a lot of water Interviewer: {NW} When dinner is on the table and the family is standing around waiting to begin Uh What do you say to them? #1 Like if you- if everybody is standing around and everybody is # 255: #2 I say I say please sit down # I say let's sit down Interviewer: Right and then uh right Interviewer: And Let's say um If some people come up to the dining room and you say And you If someone Somebody some person comes up to the dining room And you ask them won't you 255: Join us Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm # 255: #2 Won't you sit down # Interviewer: And then 255: Won't you eat with us Interviewer: So then he Blank and began to eat So he sat down and began to eat And nobody else was standing and they all 255: They all were sitting Interviewer: #1 Right # 255: #2 All were seated # Interviewer: If you want someone uh to wait until the potatoes have passed You say I mean if you want someone not to wait I mean you just say Sit down and you have these potatoes and you say You go up to them and you and you don't want 'em to wait #1 So you say # 255: #2 Oh # Uh help yourself and pass it before you pass it Interviewer: So he went ahead and blank himself 255: Helped himself Interviewer: Since he already Since uh Since he had already blanked himself I asked him to pass them over to me Since he had already #1 blank # 255: #2 Since he had already uh # Like uh {X} Talking about rice a bowl of rice Interviewer: #1 Yeah you were talking about # 255: #2 And he helped himself # Interviewer: #1 Right # 255: #2 After he helped himself he passed it to me # Interviewer: Right that's good If you decided to eat something You'd say I don't 255: If I decided #1 To eat or not to eat # Interviewer: #2 I mean not to eat something # #1 Like you say # 255: #2 I don't like it # Interviewer: Okay 255: I don't care for it Interviewer: If the food has been cooked and served a second time You say it has been 255: Well uh Lots of times you would say Do you want seconds Or are we having seconds or Interviewer: Or if if like a food that you ate last night #1 for last night's supper # 255: #2 Oh uh leftovers # We're having leftovers for supper tonight Interviewer: Alright And uh the action of uh Putting those leftovers on the stove would be 255: Heating them up Interviewer: Right {NW} If you put food in your mouth and then uh and then you begin to Like when you eat the food and then you put it in your mouth what do you do 255: You chew it Swallow it Chew it Interviewer: A dish made out of boiled Indian meat {NW} A dish made out of boiled Indian meal And some other kind of liquid What's a dish that's made out of uh boiled Indian meal and some other kind of uh liquid 255: Mush uh perhaps I don't know what you would call it Interviewer: Do you ever uh use any milk or water for it? 255: I eat uh I've eaten when I was young I would have hominy with uh sugar and milk on it all the time as a cereal and I'd later eat it as a vegetable with meat and with butter on it Interviewer: {NW} Uh What about uh Did you ever have salt on it and have it served? 255: Well as where salt is needed you put salt on it Interviewer: How is it served generally? 255: What? Interviewer: What did you say? I forgot 255: Hominy? Interviewer: Yeah 255: Hominy is made from corn and uh you can use it as a cereal with uh uh salt hominy with uh sugar and and cream or milk and then later you can eat it as with fish as a vegetable or meat with butter on it We eat it all the time that way Interviewer: And how is mush or hominy served? 255: Uh well hominy it's uh in uh in uh big bowl it's uh it's not stiff it's uh like a liquid, mushy like, not somewhat firm but not too firm Depends on how people like it, some people like it cooked rather stiff I don't Interviewer: mm-hmm Uh what do you call peas, beets, and the like? 255: Vegetables Interviewer: Mm-hmm and they grow in a what? 255: Garden Interviewer: A small plot near the house where you might have uh That well you've already mentioned that um what is uh this starch made from inside a grain raised in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas I think it is raised here in Florida too but not too much 255: What is starch you say Interviewer: Yeah the type that Chinese and Japanese eat all the time You can fry it you know and little white stuff And it's Japanese and Chinese eat it all the time too 255: Isn't it a vegetable Interviewer: Yeah And it grows it's a grain and it grows In a marsh type uh situation 255: Rice Interviewer: Mm-hmm 255: Oh yeah I love rice {NW} Interviewer: What are some names for Uh non-tax paid alcoholic beverages 255: What is some Would you #1 repeat that # Interviewer: #2 Some names for um # non-tax paid alcoholic beverages 255: You mean moonshine Interviewer: Yeah 255: {NW} Interviewer: You ever hear any other names for it? 255: white lightning There are all sorts of names for moonshine let's see Interviewer: Did you ever hear of the expression {X} 255: Nope Interviewer: When something's cooking and it makes a good expression in your nostrils And you just and you say to someone it just {X} Or just blank it 255: Smells good you say? Interviewer: Right or if you tell some guy to go up and 255: Sniff it Interviewer: Or you just used the word 255: Taste it Interviewer: No Did you sm- If you're uh 255: Smell it Interviewer: Mm-hmm Uh you crush cane and boil the juice and make what 255: Juice of what Interviewer: Uh we already went over that Okay uh That was molasses You might say molasses blank thick Like uh 255: Uh thick as molasses That's an expression Interviewer: Right 255: {X} Interviewer: What would you call the sweet sticky liquid you put On your flapjacks 255: Syrup Interviewer: Is there any imitation uh Let's say let's say this isn't Imitation syrup it's 255: Corn syrup Interviewer: Or if it's the real thing it's 255: It's cane cane syrup also can be Of course it could be other types of syrup Interviewer: Yeah but if some guy says that tastes like imitation I say that's not imitation That comes from the real uh stuff that's uh 255: That's uh that's uh um Cane syrup that's the that's the real stuff #1 as far as I am concerned # Interviewer: #2 Okay let's talk about uh # Maple syrup 255: Maple syrup good #1 But you don't have maple syrup down this way you have that in Vermont # Interviewer: #2 Right # And let's say if I had some stuff Some real maple syrup from Vermont and some guy tastes it and he says Well that tastes like imitation and I say that isn't imitation that cost me ten dollars a gallon And that stuff is 255: Well The real stuff or or Or real maple syrup I don't know I would not know the expression That stuff is is real Interviewer: Or it is an imitation it's gen- 255: Genuine Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm # 255: #2 Genuine maple syrup # {X} Interviewer: Um Sugar is sold Okay all right Oh yeah right Sugar is sold Retail already in packages and wholesale it's sold in 255: Brown sugar You you don't you don't usually have sugar in a In a sack I don't think I mean a A a crocker sack like You It's it's a I believe it's in a barrel Interviewer: Mm-hmm and if it's all broken up what would you call it? 255: If sugar is all broken up Interviewer: Uh-huh 255: Sugar is all broken up Interviewer: Yeah and it's like in little individual packs and all 255: Crystals Interviewer: Alright let's say if I had a dog tied up And I took off his chain and #1 Let him # 255: #2 Unleashed him # Interviewer: #1 Yeah # 255: #2 Or released him # Or unleashed him took him off the leash or Interviewer: Or he's all tied up and ready to go and I 255: Let him go Interviewer: Right and there's other a couple other words Or if I had uh If I had A bunch of bundles you know of uh sticks together and they were all tied together and I Snipped 'em And they all fell apart they were 255: Can't think Interviewer: Okay um Now I don't know if you have heard of this you probably did you were into banking Uh Are you into stocks 255: Yeah Interviewer: Okay uh If you buy a whole bunch of stocks sometimes you buy 'em in a A hundred a unit What is that what do you call that? #1 Buying a # 255: #2 Share # Interviewer: #1 Yeah # 255: #2 Share of stocks # Interviewer: And then there's a large amount that you buy them in 255: Well no you buy shares of stocks that's all you buy #1 That's all you # Interviewer: #2 Right # And then sometimes as I understand you have to buy a Like some Companies will not let you buy one share they let you buy 255: A hundred shares or ten shares Interviewer: Right and then the hundred shares you buy what is that called? 255: Block Block of stock Is that what you're looking for Interviewer: #1 Something like that # 255: #2 Yeah yeah # Interviewer: Uh 255: I want a block of this stock That usually the man would say that to be two-three hundred shares Interviewer: Mm-hmm okay when sugar Uh Before it comes to a retail store and it's all in this individual packs and it's in a bunch of big boxes And they ship it to the store what do they call that? You know that they that they all put together in big boxes before it's Taken out 255: Well I think some of them come in a hogshead Myself or a barrel see but uh I don't know what other name you could Call it Some technical name I guess you're thinking of Interviewer: Mm-hmm Okay what do you call the sweet Uh spread that you would Make by boiling sugar and Um What would you call the sweet spread that you make by boiling sugar and the juice of either apples, peaches Or strawberries 255: Jelly Interviewer: Okay Uh #1 Okay what would you do okay if you put it up okay that's right # 255: #2 Jam jellies or jam # Interviewer: Uh what would you have Uh On the table to season food with Two different things 255: Salt and pepper Interviewer: Okay Uh If there are some apples And a child wants one he says Blank the apple 255: Pass the apples Interviewer: Or if he demands it he says 255: Give me an apple Or I want an apple Interviewer: And uh if somebody offers you a peach you say no give me 255: An orange Interviewer: Or if you wanted the last thing that we were talking about 255: Apple No give me an apple Interviewer: Okay Interviewer: And then if you're talking about uh A group of boys and you say no It wasn't these boys it must have been 255: Doing something bad Interviewer: It must have been 255: Another gang or Interviewer: If you're pointing at it wasn't These boys it was 255: #1 Those boys # Interviewer: #2 Right # Or suppose you're identifying a certain group you said It wasn't these boys it was well we already said that Or if you say if if you Talking about a particular Person and you say No it must have been one of 255: Them Interviewer: Alright Interviewer: If you are pointing to a tree Uh a ways off You might say It's 255: It's a mile away or it's a It's a long ways It's a long way away Interviewer: Mm-hmm They used to have a song during the second world war they used to say uh 255: blow some pines Interviewer: No it was um 255: Oh Interviewer: #1 When they when they'd point and they'd say # 255: #2 Oh oh yeah uh # {NW} It's a long long way to Tipperary I think {X} Interviewer: How about the one over there 255: Yes over there that's true Over there that's over there that's why you gotta get to that It's over there in that direction Interviewer: And then if you say to someone you uh don't do it That way do it 255: This way Interviewer: Uh-huh When someone speaks to you and you don't hear what he says Uh you say What did you say? Yeah and Uh like 255: #1 Uh I didn't hear you # Interviewer: #2 Or you would say uh # {NW} Right no it was good If a man has plenty of money and doesn't have anything to worry about But life is hard on the man Uh He what would you call him 255: He had plenty of money and life was hard on him Interviewer: If a man has plenty of money and he doesn't have anything to worry about But life is hard on the man You call uh 255: Rich man Interviewer: Or you'd say that's a Let's say life if the guy had a lot of money Or that well sort of uh 255: He could be a philanthropist because he may not give it away even if he holding it Interviewer: Yeah 255: Maybe uh uh Uh Interviewer: Okay if you have a lotta uh a lot of peach trees you have Like in a in a group 255: Yes alright yeah well uh Course you have an orange grove and a peach Peach 255: Looks like we get served something here Auxiliary: Y'all need to drink something y'all sounded pretty dry Interviewer: So we're talking about uh Right And you had said an orange grove and Up North they usually call them 255: Peach orchard Interviewer: Mm-hmm okay Uh when a When I was a boy my father was poor but the next boy was 255: The next boy Interviewer: Mm-hmm 255: When I was young my father was poor Interviewer: But next door the boy was 255: Oh the next door Uh was uh Rich or wealthy Interviewer: Mm-hmm 255: Do you need a nickname for him or something Interviewer: See what it says here when I was a boy my father was poor but next door Was a boy 255: Who had everything Who Interviewer: #1 Or if you're talking about # 255: #2 Was rich # Interviewer: Or about his father you'd say Next door Was a boy And you 255: And his father was wealthy Interviewer: Right Uh Interviewer: Uh inside a cherry uh There is a part that you don't eat 255: Pit Interviewer: Mm-hmm Inside a peach what do you call that 255: Peach stone Stone I swallowed one time And I came very dying And somebody came up and saved my life I was Black in the face and He stood me up and pounded me in the back and the peach seed went about 20 feet Straight out of my throat Seed peach seed Interviewer: Mm-hmm Uh The kind of peach where the flesh is tight against the stone You ever hear that? 255: Uh yes it's uh freestone peaches and cling clingstone peaches {NW} Interviewer: Right And what's uh what would you call a freestone peach 255: Bit of the flesh It uh pulls away from the seed Interviewer: Mm-hmm What do you call a uh The part of the apple that you throw away 255: Core Interviewer: Right uh When you cut up apples and peaches and dry them You're making 255: Course you know you gotta dry apples you can buy dry apples cut up slices of dry apples Interviewer: Do you ever call them snits? 255: No Interviewer: #1 Okay # 255: #2 Nothing # Interviewer: What kind of nuts do you pull out of the gourd and roast 255: Uh chestnuts Interviewer: Mm-hmm #1 They have a few up in Georgia there # 255: #2 Yeah I know they do # Key is in old swampland you find a chestnut tree I went down there frequently Interviewer: What about uh the president of the united states was known for being a farmer of 255: Peanuts Interviewer: Right You ever hear them called any other name 255: Goobers Interviewer: Mm-hmm what other kinds of nuts you were talking about you were talking about different types 255: Chestnuts pecan nuts Interviewer: Mm-hmm what about that hard covering on the walnut what would you call that 255: Shell Interviewer: When a walnut falls off a tree there's a soft covering around it what would you call that 255: They don't have walnuts down here No I'm not familiar with that I've never seen a walnut except in a store Interviewer: Hmm uh and other kind of nuts that grown down south long and flat shaped uh that with a thin and porous shell 255: Peanuts Interviewer: Mm-hmm that's one but is there sort of thin and sort of long and round and comes to a point at each end and it's sort of harder than a peanut 255: Nut Interviewer: Uh-huh it almost had like a woody top on it okay 255: {X} Interviewer: I think you mentioned it earlier anyways 255: Chestnut Interviewer: Or the flat oval shaped nut with perforated shells that you would buy at Christmas time 255: Oh there's uh {NW} A white yellow covering like uh Uh Oh I can't almond almond nut Interviewer: Yeah mm-hmm 255: Oh Interviewer: Um let's see the kind of fruit about as big as you know what you already mentioned that let's see uh if there was bowl of oranges standing somewhere and one day you go out to get one and there aren't any left you'd say the oranges are all 255: Gone Interviewer: Right and uh alright that's funny um the red vegetables that are peppery little red vegetables little peppery hot things 255: Datil peppers Interviewer: No they grow in the ground and little red vegetables that are dark like they look like a turnip but there's a lot small 255: Radish Interviewer: Right uh the red the round red things that grow on leafy plants staked up in the garden the Italians like them a lot too you use them in the workings 255: not rice Interviewer: Mm-hmm 255: Yeah something Interviewer: Another another one we're talking about now 255: Uh not turnips no {NS} Interviewer: No they're they're mushy and a lot of them as I understand they come from Italy and they grow on these stakes and you have them around here a lot too uh they they put Italians use them for putting in their pastes you know and you have it on spaghetti and you have it in sauce it's red 255: It's not a pepper Interviewer: No it's not peppery it's sort of bland 255: I don't know Interviewer: And it's got a mushy skin and you find it it's a common thing in a produce market you put it in salads too 255: {X} Interviewer: What do you usually eat 255: Onions no Interviewer: No what do you usually eat in a salad 255: Lettuce {NS} Salad dressing {X} Cucumbers {NS} Some radish Interviewer: Mm-hmm but there's something that's sort of mushy 255: There's sweet peppers No I can't figure it out Interviewer: Uh they're small red veg- they're kind of a red vegetable grown a bush also on a bush you slice them and then you eat them with lettuce 255: {NW} Interviewer: And you make ketchup out of them 255: Right Tomatoes Interviewer: Mm-hmm 255: {X} {NW} That's {NW} {X} {X} Thing as something as grow in the ground {X} Tomatoes myself about twice {X} Interviewer: Yeah we have a bit down here that's true {NW} Uh okay what would you call the little small tomatoes no bigger than 255: There's a there's a name for them cherry Cherry tomatoes Interviewer: Uh along with your meat you might have baked we were talking about that uh but you talked about the different types of potatoes what about the ones with the yellow meat 255: Sweet potatoes Interviewer: Mm-hmm and uh you ever hear of any other names 255: Yams We used to grow yams Interviewer: Okay we were talking about onions and the little fresh ones that you eat you know what you call those 255: It's uh {X} I can't just call the name right now Uh scallions Interviewer: Yeah mm-hmm what are some of the vegetables you would use for a good soup 255: Soup Interviewer: Yeah for a good soup 255: Oh well we put oh we put all sorts of vegetables in soup potatoes {NW} Peas {X} And English peas butter beans Corn Interviewer: Mm-hmm 255: cooks the best tomatoes Interviewer: What about uh gumbo 255: Gumbo you put okra And the main thing would be okra and gumbo Interviewer: What would you what if you have an apple or a plum around it see well if you have an apple or a plum around it it will dry out and 255: Apples will {X} Sink and eventually rot Interviewer: Mm-hmm and if you take an apple and if you say put it above your stove and it just #1 Slicks # 255: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Right and it gets all wrinkly what do you call that 255: Well you why would you want to do anything like that with an apple {NW} Interviewer: Maybe by mistake or 255: Yeah I see well it would sink and and dry out dry out Interviewer: Mm-hmm uh if you wanted to get the beans out of the pod by hand you'd say you'd have to 255: Shuck them or peel them Interviewer: Mm-hmm the large yellowish flat beans the shells but not the pod what do you call those 255: Large yellow beans Interviewer: Yeah yellowish black beans the shells not the pods 255: The shells not the pod Oh I see The peas themselves you mean Interviewer: Uh-huh right 255: Butter beans Interviewer: Right 255: Yeah Interviewer: The kind of beans that you eat pod and all 255: Oh that's coffees Interviewer: Yeah but they are sometimes the color of this rug too they call them that too 255: Well green beans Interviewer: Right 255: English peas green beans Green beans even more actually. Interviewer: And uh you take the top of turnips and you cook them and make a mess of 255: {NW} Turnip uh turnip greens Interviewer: Mm-hmm what other greens do you use besides turnip tops 255: I use collard type collards Texas colored people love collard greens I never eat them Interviewer: What other types of what other is there any does it make any difference in the size or the color of the butter bean you know is there a name that they call it 255: Well they they they call uh the butter beans uh small uh they've got a name for them and some are small some are large {X} {NW} Better than the other you put butter on them Cook them well I don't know the names of Interviewer: {NW} If you're telling if a friend of yours is going out and you want him to buy you some lettuce you'd say please buy me blank of lettuce 255: Head of lettuce Interviewer: Uh-huh and if you say please buy me three blank of lettuce 255: Three heads of lettuce Interviewer: Mm-hmm if you have two boys and three girls you have 255: You have five children. We only had four. {NW} Interviewer: Um do you ever speak of them as so many heads or something like that 255: {NW} Yeah yeah that's I don't do that but that's a common phrase I've got six heads of children I've got six heads Interviewer: Of course 255: How many children you got six heads I'd say that just a common expression I wouldn't say that though Interviewer: If he had seven boys and seven girls you might say he had a blank of children 255: You could say say a bunch {NW} Interviewer: Did you ever use the word passel 255: What Interviewer: Passel or passel I think it's called {C: pronunciation} 255: Yeah well P-A -assel Uh yes but that would be a An unusual expression somebody Would be sort of kidding when they say that I imagine I don't believe that {NS} {X} I don't know when they'd want to use He has a passel of children Interviewer: Outside of uh what is the outside of the airport 255: classic Interviewer: Uh-huh what is the kind of corn that you would eat on the cob 255: Uh I like that white corn most people eat yellow corn {NW} Yellow corn's more easy to get but I like white corn Interviewer: And the kind of corn that is tender enough to eat off the cob is 255: Is uh green corn {X} Interviewer: Right um what do you call the top of the corn stalk 255: Tassel Interviewer: The stringy stuff that comes out of the end of the corn shucks and that you have to brush off the ear when you take the shucks off 255: I used to smoke that when I was young dry {NS} I can't think of the name of it now Interviewer: You ever call it {D: tossel} or 255: No Interviewer: Silk 255: Silk Interviewer: Corn bread 255: Called it silk called it silk Interviewer: Corn button 255: Called it silk Interviewer: Uh-huh a large round fruit that grows on the ground that you make out of pie out of Thanksgiving 255: Pumpkin Interviewer: Right the kind of small yellow cooked {D: necked} vegetable yellow crooked necked vegetable right 255: Squash Interviewer: Right or any names for it when you dry it 255: Well you Course you could You can have uh you can grow gourds But I don't think that's squash {X} Dried it {X} Used as a water dipper Used as a dipper or gourd Or as a place for {X} birds {NS} Interviewer: Mm-hmm 255: {X} {NS} Interviewer: Right um uh what kind of uh melons would you raise 255: Watermelons mush melons Interviewer: Uh the kind of melon with the yellow meat 255: That's that's a cantaloupe Uh what strings up what springs up in the woods and fields after a rain there's little white {X} Interviewer: No they're little white {D: umbrella} uh things 255: Oh Interviewer: Yeah they come up and they're sort of they're a fungus 255: Yes They grow in my yard here too I don't know I don't eat them though {NW} Oh dear what is the name for them goodness {NS} well spores {NS} I entirely can't think Interviewer: Well it sounds like the thing that we were talking about 255: Mushrooms Interviewer: Mm-hmm right if you think if uh I don't know if you mentioned p {X} but when we were talking about melons when they're large and they're green and people sometimes pickle the rind 255: {X} {NW} Interviewer: Uh what different kinds do you have of these 255: What different kinds Interviewer: Yeah 255: Oh my goodness there's definitely watermelon No question of watermelon {X} Interviewer: Why why did they call it those 255: They call them different names and they know what they are they have a The different shapes you know a lot of them A lot of them are round a lot of them are like eggs a lot of them are {NS} like sausage {NS} A lot of them have stripes on them Running {X} circles {NW} Interviewer: I was wondering you were talking about the mushrooms out here in your front yard uh 255: Toad stools we call them {NW} Interviewer: What was that you called them 255: Frog stools {NS} Interviewer: Um if a man had a store a sore throat so the inside of {X} You already said that okay um what do people usually smoke 255: Cigarettes cigars pipe Interviewer: Mm-hmm um there was a lot of let's say there were a lot of people at a party having a good time they're standing around the piano and they were standing around the piano what were they doing 255: Singing Interviewer: Mm-hmm and if a funny story had been told they would all be 255: Laughing Interviewer: Mm-hmm and if you let's say somebody offers to you a favor you would say I appreciate it but I don't want to be 255: In debt to you I don't want to That's the thing you're looking for I don't want to be under obligation Interviewer: Right anybody asks about you see somebody asks about you doing a certain job and you'd say sure I blank do it 255: I will do it or I might do it it depends Interviewer: Mm-hmm and if you're able you say I 255: I will do it if I'm able or I will do it if I have time Interviewer: Mm-hmm if somebody asks you about uh say if somebody asks you mm-hmm if somebody asks you {D: about sundown} to do some work and you say I got up to work before sun up and I blank all I'm going to do today 255: You're up before sunrise and Interviewer: I blank all I all I'm going to do today like you said 255: I've done you could say but I {NS} Interviewer: Right 255: I've done all I'm going to do today I got up before sunrise {X} {NS} I've done all I'm going to do today Interviewer: If you're already talking about the fact that so few of your old friends are still alive you might say I spent all week looking for my high school classmates and it seems they're 255: All gone Interviewer: Yeah that's a terrible question that's not nice I don't know why that put that in there uh in such a situation in such a situation he blank to be careful 255: In such a situation I better be careful Interviewer: Or he blank be careful 255: He better be careful Interviewer: Mm-hmm okay or or speaking of the fact that corn seems short you might say all this year it blank taller 255: Said all what #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Corn is really short and you say well all this year it blank taller you know it's such really short this year and you say all this year it blank taller A favorite expression by an old uncle of mine {X} when he had a failure of a corn crop he would say that gophers could eat the tassels off of my corn {NW} Oh that's a good one let's see uh uh you say all let's say when you were a kid you probably may have said this I dare you to go through the graveyard at night but I'll bet you 255: Bet you'll you'll whistle Interviewer: Mm-hmm but like if I'm going to go up you 255: Might still be running Interviewer: Or like when you were younger and another kid came up to you and said I dare you I really dare you if you go through that graveyard at night I bet but I'll bet you let's see I dare you that if you go through that graveyard at night I'll bet you like Like if you don't think or if you went up to another kid and you just told him that and you said I dare you to go through that graveyard and 255: I bet I bet you won't do it or I bet you'll {X} If you do it you'll run or what Interviewer: The negative of dare you 255: I bet you Interviewer: Okay 255: {X} {NW} Interviewer: You knew uh you know when you first agreed let's see you know when you first agreed to go that you blank to tell your mother 255: You do or you first to #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Well yeah like # If like 255: You planned to tell your mother #1 You forgot # Interviewer: #2 Right # 255: to tell your mother Interviewer: No it's like playing 255: Yeah Interviewer: Uh if you just go up to her and you know you're obligated to tell your mother so you say that you should whatever okay 255: You'd ask your mother's permission Interviewer: Right a boy got a whip and you say let's say a boy got a whipping and you say I bet he did something he shou- 255: {NW} Shouldn't have done Interviewer: Right 255: {NW} Interviewer: Um 255: {NW} Interviewer: And then someone might go up to you and say will you dare do it and then you say no I like if I go up to like someone going up to you will you dare do that and then you say no I 255: No I won't but uh Interviewer: Right 255: Be one expression Interviewer: Uh when you get something done that was hard work all by yourself and your friend was standing around without helping you'd say you like you know if you were working all the time and you're doing a lot of jobs and working this friend was watching you and you say well you 255: {X} He's lazy for one thing Interviewer: Right and if he could have helped you then you would say you 255: Uh You're not much of a helper Interviewer: Right 255: You're lazy Interviewer: Uh suggesting the possibility of being able to do something you'd say I'm not sure but I 255: I might {NS} Interviewer: {X} 255: I might I'm not sure but I might do it Interviewer: Or you might say if it if it quits raining let's see yeah if you {X} it quits raining by Thursday I 255: I'll go with you I'll Work with you I'll do whatever it {X} Interviewer: Or if you were talking about doing it I blank over the yard work get all the yard work finished I 255: I'll uh I'll go with you if I complete my work or if I #1 Finish what I'm doing # Interviewer: #2 Or # I blank get all the yard work finished 255: I Course if I get all the yard work finished Interviewer: Mm-hmm the kind of bird that can see in the dark 255: Owl Interviewer: Uh-huh ever hear any other words for them where they're kind of birds you know and that seem like scary in the graveyard or in the barn or anything like that any different types of them 255: Well I imagine other birds can see at night besides owls but I don't know Uh {X} Hawk Interviewer: Okay the bird which hoots at night 255: Well that's an owl of course Interviewer: Mm-hmm is there any 255: Hoot owl Interviewer: Beg your pardon 255: A hoot owl Interviewer: Hoot owl 255: Different {X} Interviewer: What does that look like 255: What an owl Interviewer: Yeah that one 255: It has a it has a beak like a hawk and his great big eyes blink {NW} Interviewer: What kind of bird what other kind of birds that drill holes in trees 255: Uh Uh they really can drill a hole too Uh jay birds jay birds Yeah jay birds will live in the hole make a nest in the tree Interviewer: Yes and what about the window it usually has a red head and it 255: Wood woodpecker Interviewer: Mm-hmm 255: Yeah Interviewer: You ever hear it called peckerwood 255: Peckerwood {NW} Of course there's {X} to get this full of {X} peckerwood {X} {X} Interviewer: Mm-hmm um what about the kind of black and white animal with a powerful smell 255: Skunk Interviewer: Mm-hmm any other names for it 255: Yeah other names they have uh Oh dear Interviewer: What kind of animals come and raid hen houses {X} 255: Weasel will do it or coons They'll take the eggs Interviewer: Any names for uh that take care of them all 255: You mean it'll kill {X} {X} Uh I know what you mean to say but {X} Uh Uh can't think of the name Now there is a name that covers them all Interviewer: Yeah and you might say I'm going to get me a gun and some traps and shoot those okay you ever heard the word varmin 255: Surely yes Interviewer: Okay 255: Varmints that will cover them all right {NW} Interviewer: What about the bushy tailed animal in the tree tops and the city streets 255: Squirrels Interviewer: What color are they 255: Gray squirrel {X} Interviewer: Whether they're uh yeah and what about uh wait how do these uh different colors different squirrels compare in size 255: {NW} Well a flying squirrel is not very large. A gray squirrel is a pretty good size squirrel {X} and yeah but uh {NW} They they're small I've seen a small flying squirrel Interviewer: What about a red colored squirrel 255: Well I don't know particularly and I I imagine it would be larger Interviewer: Any sort of animal that's like a squirrel but doesn't climb trees 255: Any sort of animal like a squirrel that doesn't climb trees Interviewer: Uh-huh you mentioned 255: Oh there's gopher Interviewer: Mm-hmm 255: The gopher I was talking about was a land turtle We call a land turtle a gopher here Interviewer: Really 255: We {X} that's a real part of our food {NW} Eat la- land turtles which are gophers we call them gophers {NW} Gopher stew is I think you'll find a a menu in there for a gopher stew in that book I think that was a big {NW} delicacy for {X} people Interviewer: Hmm that's interesting and these are in freshwater and salt water 255: What Interviewer: Land these type turtles 255: {X}