303: {D: Floor} belonged to {X} To make {X} on the hill. Take it up on a wheelbarrow And I found this old book had been laying there for a year. But it's pretty good bucket I put the snake in it. And uh. It fill that long tin bucket up and {X} bucket is about that high. {D: Look around} and he fill that long tin bucket up. And when I- when he got I wrapped him down in there. And I tied a string on that side of his neck and one on this side. I tied it to the {X} bucket to that hand. Tied it. And go down there and try to wash my hands. {X} {D: looped it.} Then I drawed it up just like I wanted and cut old {X} tied him to here that bucket. Got me a stick then. And uh put him on my back and went on to town with him. Interviewer: {NW} 303: And that's all I wants to talk about. But now {NW} I done that and and the white people {D: stay 'til} there's plenty of 'em married and living {D: another day knows.} Seen him. Interviewer: {X} 303: But some of 'em said uh they wouldn't have done it for nothing but I didn't know better at that time. And {D: now is there anything else?} Interviewer: Um. Yeah wha- what did you call the container that you use to carry food to the pigs in? 303: I call it a slop bucket. {NW} Interviewer: Okay. And um. Let's say if you went out and decide if you decide to plant some flowers inside the house what would you plant 'em in? You'd call that a? 303: Call that a A cr- a crop bowl. Or bowl of a stone. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: {X} I know why {X} around here and all I did have Been {X} And and uh uh what's churning. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: My mama used to churn. We had a calf. She made butter and she had a cedar dasher. Went in this churn churn it's out there and right out there and had that shop just about that high. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And uh. She put it in this churn. And uh sometimes we had a cedar churn. And we had a stone churn. Now the stone churns out that and uh. the dash is out there somewhere I seen it. And uh. The men are trying to buy it from me I won't sell it at all. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And that's called a what'd I call it? Interviewer: A churn? 303: A churn. It's called a churn. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And what would you call something that might have out in your backyard to to heat up water to boil the clothes in? 303: Well You can have a thing you call a pot or a kettle. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Either one {D: could answer.} Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um. What if you you cut some flowers and wanted to keep them inside of the house. You'd put that in a? 303: Put that in a bowl. Crop crop bowl. Interviewer: Okay but another name for it. 303: Uh? Interviewer: Va- Vase or vase or- {C: pronunciation} 303: A vase. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: Or- or- or either bowl of pu- put it in a vase. And uh. Interviewer: Okay and if you were gonna um you sat the table you put out a plate and then you'd um give everyone a? 303: Uh. Fork and a knife. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What if they then had coffee they need to stir that? 303: You give everyone sit everyone cup and a saucer. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 303: #2 to the plate. # Interviewer: And to to um. Get the sugar out you'd use a? 303: Sugar bowl. Interviewer: Okay but you wouldn't use a fork you'd use a? 303: Spoon. Interviewer: Okay. And say. Say if you were had three people leading you. Had three forks on the table and three? 303: Oh. Three people? Interviewer: Yeah. Three three forks and three spoons and three? 303: Well you'd want you'd want uh three knives. Interviewer: #1 Mm-kay. # 303: #2 And three spoons. # Interviewer: Okay. And if the- the dishes were all dirty you'd say oh I have to go what the dishes? 303: #1 Mm. # Interviewer: #2 I have to go? # 303: Well. You say well we're done the dishes got to be washed and put away. Interviewer: Okay. So you say I have to go wa- have to go? 303: I don't know the answer to that. Interviewer: Okay. Um. You say after she washes the dishes then she? 303: #1 Dry. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 303: Dries the dishes. Interviewer: Okay but when she's got soap on them then she what them in clear water then she? 303: Wash 'em. Interviewer: Okay. What about when she runs clear water over that you'd say over the soapy dishes you'd say she? 303: She's rinsing 'em. Interviewer: Okay. Um. What do you call the cloth or rag you use when you're washing dishes? 303: Ta- ta- {D: another} towel {X} {D: kip-} no. I call it a {X} Napkin. No I think. No it ain't napkin. Interviewer: When you're washing dishes though. 303: Well you wash 'em with a dish rag. Interviewer: Okay. 303: {D: We call it.} Interviewer: Then to dry them? 303: {NW} You dry 'em with a hand towel. Interviewer: Okay. You ever hear that called anything else? 303: {NW} Interviewer: Ever hear of cup cup towel? 303: Yeah I've heard of a cup towel. Interviewer: What's that? 303: That's to dry dishes with. Cup towel. Interviewer: And um. What do you call the thing the cloth that you use to bathe your face with? 303: Well you call that {NS} a face towel {NS} or- Interviewer: To wash your face with. 303: Wash pan. Interviewer: Yeah but the cloth you'd use. 303: Oh. {NS} Towel. Interviewer: Okay. You ever hear of wash rag or wash cloth or face cloth? 303: Yes I've heard of them. Interviewer: What what did you call that? 303: Oh. Wash cloth uh. It's a cloth that you wash after you're done using it. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um. And if you wanted to pour yourself a glass of water you'd go up to the sink and you'd turn on the? 303: Faucet. Interviewer: Okay. What would you call something similar to that that you might have outside to hook a hose up to? 303: Why. Faucet? Interviewer: Okay. Um. You say it was so cold last night that our water pipes? 303: M- uh. Burst. Interviewer: Okay. And you say um if it gets much colder the water pipes might? 303: Might burst. Interviewer: Okay. Um. This is something that people used to buy flour in big container and you might have to roll it off the wagon using a couple of logs or boards. 303: It's called a a barrel. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 303: #2 A barrel. # Interviewer: And. What about something smaller than that that- 303: #1 Keg. # Interviewer: #2 {D: got a tap} # Huh? 303: Keg. Interviewer: Keg okay. And what did say fifty pounds of molasses or or fifty pounds of lard used to come in? You'd call that a? 303: #1 Well. # Interviewer: #2 Say- # fifty pounds of lard? 303: Fifty po- Uh I don't understand that. Interviewer: What say if you bought um say fifty pounds of lard. 303: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Would you have a special name for that? 303: Let's see. Uh you could call it I bought fifty pounds of grease. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Would you call it a stand of lard? 303: Uh I'd call it a stand of lard. Interviewer: You heard that word around here? 303: Yes ma'am Interviewer: Okay um. And if you were gonna pour something from a container from a big container into a container with a narrow mouth to keep it from spilling you'd use a? 303: Funnel. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And if you were driving horses and wanted them to go faster you'd hit 'em with a? 303: Whip. Interviewer: Okay. And if you bought some things at the store the grocer might put them in a? {NS} 303: In a s- sack or in a pan. Interviewer: Okay. 303: O- Interviewer: What would the sack be made out of? 303: Paper. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um. What what about flour? What would that come in? 303: Flour? Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: It'd come in a uh b- b- b- bag. I'd call it. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And what about feed for cattle? 303: Feed for cattle. Interviewer: Uh-huh that rough rough material? 303: Uh you talking about hay? Or you talking about- Interviewer: The bag or sack. 303: Bag. Uh sack. We used to call it a bag. Or either you could call it a sack of feed or either one of 'em. Interviewer: Okay. You mentioned tow sack earlier. 303: A tow s- {NS} Interviewer: Is that that real rough cloth? 303: Yes ma'am. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And say you took corn to the mill to be ground. Um. You might take one bushel or two bushels or whatever you know. You'd call that a? How much you'd call that a? What? 303: Well. I don't exactly get that. Interviewer: Do you ever hear the expression a turn of corn? 303: Yeah a turn. Yeah. Interviewer: What what does that mean? 303: That means um uh sack or half a sack. {NS} Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Or turn of corn. Interviewer: Is that how much you take at one time or? 303: Yes if uh uh didn't ha- have pretty good turn that morning. Bags or sack. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: {X} And that would call it a bag of flour bag of corn or whatever it is. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And. What would you call the amount of wood that you can carry with both your arms? 303: {D: Stole of wood.} Interviewer: Okay but The if you're taking it so holding all the wood you can hold in both your arms you'd call that you'd say you had a? What of wood? 303: {NW} I had a armful. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And when the light burns out in an electric lamp now you'd have to screw in a new? 303: Another bulb. Interviewer: What kind of bulb? 303: Elec- electric bulb. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And if you want to carry the wash out to hang it up on the line you'd carry it out in a? 303: In a in a dish pan. Interviewer: Okay or a clothes 303: dish- dish pan. Interviewer: Or clothes ba- something they might have now. 303: Uh. Interviewer: A clothes? {NS} ba- 303: Uh I don't understand it like #1 that. # Interviewer: #2 What about # basket? 303: A basket yeah. Interviewer: Okay um. Now what runs around the barrel to hold the wood in place? 303: Runs around the barrel and holds the wood in place? Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: {D: A hoops} Interviewer: Okay. And suppose you open a bottle and you didn't want the liquid to spill out you might stick in a? 303: A stopper. Interviewer: Okay. What would that be made out of? 303: Made out of cork. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Now this is a musical instrument. That you blow on like and go like this. 303: Mm-hmm. Uh. {D: Calling it} a harp. Interviewer: Okay. A harp? 303: Yes ma'am. Interviewer: What's Okay um. What about something that you'd go like um hold between your teeth and go like this? 303: {NW} Uh I don't know a comb I reckon. Uh uh uh. Um. Used to when I had good teeth put the comb up there and piece of paper and I'd blow it it'd make a terrible racket Interviewer: {NW} 303: {X} ringing everywhere. Interviewer: Yeah. Okay this harp that you mentioned what did you call that? That had another name? Do you call it French harp or mouth harp? 303: A French harp. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 303: #2 or a # mouth mouth harp either one. Interviewer: They're the same thing? 303: Mm no. {NW} A little different. French harp. Mouth harp. Well I don't know uh any different. don't know what they {X} {NS} Interviewer: What about something that you'd put in between your teeth and hold between your teeth and 303: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 and you # twang it? 303: It's a Jew's harp. Interviewer: Okay. And the thing that you pound nails with you call that the? 303: You have to explain that again. Interviewer: A- what tools might you have around the house? 303: Oh well. {X} pick shovel anything like that. Hammer. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Now suppose you had a wagon and two horses. What do you call the long wooden piece that comes between the horses? 303: Uh. Tongue. Interviewer: Okay. And if you have a horse pulling a buggy before you hitch him up you have to back him between the? 303: Shaft. Interviewer: Okay. And. Now talk about parts of a wagon wheel. Now the very inside would be called the hub. 303: Yeah. Interviewer: And the spokes come out and what do they fit into? 303: They fit into the hub. Interviewer: Okay but coming out though they fit into the? 303: Wheel. The rim. Interviewer: Okay. And if what is there something that goes over the rim? 303: Piece of iron. Interviewer: Okay. What part what do you call that? 303: You call that the rimming. Interviewer: The what? 303: Wheel rim. Interviewer: Okay. Is that the part that touches the ground? 303: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: The rim touches the ground? 303: No. No. The rim don't touch the ground it's the I forgot what they call it. It's Interviewer: Call it t- 303: Tar. The the tar. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Do you ever hear of felly or feller? Part of the wagon wheel? 303: Yeah. The f- feller feller. Yes uh. I know what to tell but I can't call it. Interviewer: Is it something the spokes go into? 303: The feller? Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: No I- I'm I'm stalled up on that. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Now suppose you have a horse hitched up to a wagon. What do you call the thing that the the traces hook onto? 303: Single tree. Interviewer: Okay. And suppose you have two horses. 303: Then you'd have to have two single trees. Interviewer: Okay. And they- they'd be hooked onto the? 303: Wagon. Interviewer: Okay. You ever would that be called a double? 303: It's called a double tree. Double str- sing- uh double trees. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Suppose there was a log across the road you'd say I tied a chain to it and I what it out of the way? And I? 303: Moved it out of the way. Interviewer: Okay or another word you might use? And I? 303: I drug it out of the way. Interviewer: Okay. You say. We have what many logs out of this road? 303: Many rocks. Interviewer: Many logs we have- 303: Oh. Well I don't know the answer. Interviewer: Okay but using that same word you'd say we have what? many logs out of the 303: #1 Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 road. # With these chains we have 303: {D: many} A logs has been moved out. Interviewer: Okay or have been? 303: Moved. Interviewer: Okay or another word? 303: Out of the way. Interviewer: Okay. {NS} What do you use to break up the ground with in the spring? 303: Plough. Interviewer: Are there different kinds of ploughs? 303: Yeah there there's uh different {NW} there's {D: shovels} Interviewer: There's a what? 303: {D: A shovels plough} and a {D: Chattanooga} and uh there's another one too but I can't think {X} Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 303: #2 or like # that. Interviewer: What about s- something that breaks up the ground even finer than that? 303: Uh. Not a turning plow but a garden tiller. Interviewer: Okay um. Have you ever heard of a dis- {D: something disc-}? 303: {D: Disc} Interviewer: Yeah. But you ever heard of a 303: Mm-hmm. It's- Interviewer: Something that um is not a plough it's something a little bit different. 303: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: And it breaks up the ground real fine. 303: That's what you call {D: distin} {D: bob disc.} Interviewer: You ever heard of a harrow or harrow? {C: pronunciation} 303: Yeah. A harrow Interviewer: What's that like? 303: That's a something you run over the ground to to make it loose. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And break up the clots. Interviewer: Okay um. And what do you call the things that the wheels of the wagon fit into? 303: The hub. Interviewer: Okay but. Each wheel that fits into the thing that goes across. 303: Uh that's the felloe. {NS} Interviewer: Okay. 303: The rim or either the felloe some of 'em call it. Interviewer: Okay what about ax- axle? A- 303: Axel. Axel. Interviewer: Okay um. If you were gonna chop wood you might put it on this X-shaped frame. What would you call that? 303: A chopping block. Interviewer: Okay but a frame that you might make out of boards. 303: Frame. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Shaped like a X you know? 303: Yeah. Interviewer: And you put one end of the log down in that- 303: Oh that's a glut or a wedge. Either one. Interviewer: That's called a what? 303: Glut. Interviewer: Glut? 303: Glut or a wedge. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: Glut or a wedge. Interviewer: What does that look like exactly? 303: This wedge {X} head up there square head. And uh that you stick it in the log and tap it with a steel hammer. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: And then bust this out. And you take two of 'em bust 'em out straight like you wanted to {X} good straight wood. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: Or in a wedge is is made just like a steel uh the wedge is uh just made like the steel uh wedge. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: Only it's made by hand. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And that's what you call a glut. Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 303: #2 And uh. # The other one is a wedge it's uh made of steel and it's about that long. And you bust wood with it or start your shingles with it go in back yonder when they made boards. They had 'em in there they've got that uh on the board {X} that what they call it made it. Like a L it's got a blade on it and sits out thataway. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: And you took you hit that bust them boards with it. That's the blade's about that long. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And you bust the {X} with it or you bust more wide with it. Interviewer: Okay um. Okay. Um. You'd fix your hair using a comb and a? 303: Well you'd use some kind of liquid or water on it Interviewer: Okay. But a woman would use a comb and then something else would be called a? 303: A {NW} Interviewer: Comb and a bru- 303: Comb. Uh I forgot what they call it. I can't call it. Interviewer: Okay um. You'd sharpen a straight razor using a leather? 303: Yeah. Interviewer: Leather what? 303: Leather strop. Interviewer: Okay. And what do you put in a pistol? 303: Cartridges Interviewer: Mm-kay. And. This is something that children play on it's a board that rests on a trestle and it goes up and down. 303: A seesaw. Interviewer: Okay. And if you saw some children playing on these you'd say that they were? 303: Seesawing. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Did you ever call that any other word when you were growing up? 303: I don't believe we did. Interviewer: Okay. What about something that would go around and around? 303: Around. It's a wheel I reckon. Interviewer: Okay but something that is be a board rested on a trestle then it turn around. 303: It's what you call uh Uh. I know what it is but I can't call it. Uh. Kite not a kite but a {NW} sorta made like a fan mill. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Wind turned it around and around. Interviewer: No I'm not thinking of that something that that children play on they sit on it #1 and then it # 303: #2 Oh. # Mm. Oh uh it's a Uh. It ain't a seesaw. Uh. It's a r- it's a a carnival it's a uh going around and around I forgot what they call that. #1 Crash wheel. # Interviewer: #2 You ever- # Now it's it's going not going around like that. 303: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Have you ever heard of a flying Jenny or a riding horse or? 303: Mm Interviewer: Anything like that? 303: No. #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Sort of a # merry-go-round that you make yourself. 303: N- no I I forgot what they call it I've heard it called too but I can't I can't call it now to save my life. Interviewer: Okay. Um. You might tie a long rope to a tree limb and put a sw- seat on it and you'd make a- 303: Swing. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And what do you carry coal in? 303: Coal bucket. Interviewer: Okay. And. On a stove what do you have that carries the smoke out? 303: Uh. Pipe. Interviewer: What kind of pipe? 303: Tin pipe. Interviewer: Okay and then the pipe fits into the? 303: Joint of the stove. Interviewer: Okay. What's the flue? 303: Flue is a is for the smoke is for the flue to come through to go out. It it lets escape the smoke. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: {NW} Protects the house. Interviewer: So the pipe fits into the flue? 303: Yes ma'am. Interviewer: Okay um. This is something you might use to carry bricks or something heavy {X} It's got a little wheel in front and two handles. 303: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 303: hand barrow. I mean wheel barrow. {C: pronunciation} Interviewer: Okay. Um. And what might you use to sharpen your tools on? 303: A grindstone. Interviewer: Okay. What about something smaller than that? 303: F- file. Interviewer: Okay you every heard of a whet? 303: Whet rock Interviewer: What's that? 303: That's to sharpen your knives with if you want to {D: it's small.} Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um. 303: {X} summertime. cut 'em up in wintertime. Interviewer: Did your wife handle all that? 303: Uh yeah. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 303: #2 Yes ma'am # Oh she {X} around thirty forty {D: hens} {D: bins and things} make my way {D: to get her so she} {X} Interviewer: {X} 303: And that's- people come {D: I'd be in there} Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And I'd give 'em a can from the {X} Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: {NW} Interviewer: Did you always have a garden? 303: Yes ma'am. Always had a garden ever since I come in. {D: Up until now.} Interviewer: You got one now though don't you? 303: {D: Pardon?} Interviewer: You's you have one now? 303: Yeah. Done got it planted. {NS} Interviewer: Is it not as big as- 303: No the {X} like a {X} down the road and cool rain. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Water standing in part of it. Hit the ground {X} I don't {X} twice. This {X} twice. Cuz I have it tied up on account of rain {D: packed up} and got it's hard {D: when you come up there} go in there plough it out again. Plant it over. Interviewer: Mm. What'd you say you had planted in there? 303: Uh. Corn. {D: Roasting their} corn. Beans. Cabbage. {X} potatoes. A few years of pumpkin. {X} okra and uh. A bunch of peas sowed down there {D: for the} great {X} I had put up for {X} nothing but never need to raise none and never did {X} Interviewer: You had {D: put up} for work? 303: {X} Uh. Uh. Uh. Dinner used to have 'em and I run of the trees. To plant and and I guess some {X} white lady saw them out down there. And uh then they never did come never did start out. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: And I guess they must've been dead when I set 'em out. The already been all {D: over} that place down there but now they {X} if it'd lived Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Okay um. 303: {NW} Interviewer: You say you're it fits your {X} using a comb and what? 303: How's that? Interviewer: If. If a woman wanted to fix her hair she'd use a comb 303: #1 Yeah # Interviewer: #2 and a? # What else? 303: Mm. A {X} or oil or something. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What about a a something that has 303: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 bristles? # 303: Or- Interviewer: Or 303: Brush. Interviewer: Okay. 303: Brush. Interviewer: And she was gonna use that you'd say she was gonna? 303: {D: When it} I don't understand it. Interviewer: If she was gonna use this brush you'd say she was gonna? 303: Brush her hair. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Okay um. The thing that that you drive around nowadays? 303: It's called a car or a truck. Interviewer: Okay. And if something was leaking and you were gonna lubricate it you'd put- 303: Mm. Interviewer: put that hard solid stuff on it. 303: That's uh uh {X} {X} not hard but it's uh. Uh. I forgot what they call it. Interviewer: What about gre- 303: Huh? Grease. Interviewer: Okay. {X} You say um the car is squeaking so I'm going to? 303: Grease it. Interviewer: Okay. And so you say yesterday he what the car? Yesterday he? 303: {X} I didn't quite understand. Interviewer: Okay say the car was squeaking yesterday so he? 303: Yeah. Well he greased it and it stopped. Interviewer: Okay. And if grease got all over your hands you say your hands were all? 303: Dirty. Interviewer: Okay or all gre- 303: Greasy. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 303: #2 Or greasy. # Interviewer: Um. What do you call the stuff that you used to burn in lamps? 303: Kerosene. Interviewer: Okay. Any other name for it? 303: The lamp oil. Interviewer: Okay. 303: Or like uh Interviewer: Okay. Do you ever um. Have you ever heard of making when you when you were growing up did you ever um do remember ever making a lamp? 303: Yes. I remember {D: nana} making a grease lamp. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: Uh. Put the grease in the pan. And uh wrap it. Uh. In rags. Uh. Yarn rags if you got 'em, {D: Which seep} better than cotton rag. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: And grease it right and bring it in there and lay a piece of the {D: lard} on it. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: {D: It did the pan} then set the fire and burn all day all night. Long as there was grease in the pan. Interviewer: And you call that a grease lamp? 303: Call that a grease lamp. Interviewer: Okay. Um. Inside the tire of a car you have the? Inner- What? 303: Inside. Interviewer: Yeah of the tire. Of the car. 303: Uh. I'd call it the wheel. Interviewer: Okay but inside the tire. 303: #1 The inner tube. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Okay. And. Now suppose someone had just built a boat. And they were gonna put it in the water for the first time. 303: Uh-huh. Interviewer: You'd say that they were going to? 303: Uh. {D: Go on there} put it on the water. Interviewer: Okay. Would you use another word for that? Would you say going to {X}? 303: How's that? Interviewer: Would you use another word for that? 303: Uh. Interviewer: Let's say they got a launch the boat. 303: {X} Go on and wash the boat off. Interviewer: Okay. What kind of boats um might you have like? Boat you might have to go fishing in or something like that? 303: Why. I'd forgot what they call them boats but. It's a- Uh. I got {D: just down on} {X} can't think of what it is. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um. Say that a child was just learning to dress himself. 303: Mm. Interviewer: The mother would bring in the clothes and tell him here- your clothes here 303: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: What i- what would you say? 303: You say well oh I brought your clothes in and uh for you to put on. Interviewer: Okay. Or you might just tell him that here? 303: Here is your clothes. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And um. If a woman wanted to buy a dress of a certain color she'd take along a little square of cloth to use as a? 303: Take along the color uh uh a little piece. to to iden- identify the dress she wanna buy. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What would you call that little piece? 303: Uh. A {X} {X} like that I don't know exactly what they- Interviewer: Yeah would call it {X} {X} 303: {D: Set a sample} Yes that's what they they call it a sample. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And she saw a dress that she liked very much she might say that dress is very? 303: Th- the that's {NW} dresses. There {X} {X} {D: buy enough}. Interviewer: Okay. And if she sees a dress that is very becoming on her she might say that that that's a very- 303: That's the very dress that I would like to choose. Interviewer: Okay. And. She might say the dress is beautiful or she might just use another word she might say the dress is pre- 303: Pretty. Interviewer: Okay. And a little girl might tell her mother Well Susie's dress was pretty but mine is even? 303: Well. I'm stalling right there. Interviewer: Okay that. What might a women wear over her dress in the kitchen? 303: Apron. Interviewer: Okay. And to sign your name in ink you'd use a? 303: Ink pen. Interviewer: Okay. And to hold a baby's diaper in place you'd use a? 303: Safety pin. Interviewer: Okay. And um. Soup that you buy usually comes in a? 303: A what'd you say? Interviewer: Soup that you buy. 303: Soup comes in a can. Interviewer: What kind of can? 303: Uh comes in a tin can. Interviewer: Okay. And a dime is worth? 303: Ten cents. Interviewer: Okay. If it was real cold outside before you went out you might put on a? 303: A coat. Interviewer: Okay. And men sometimes wear they put on a shirt and then they before they put on their coat they put on a? 303: Undershirt. Interviewer: Okay but over the shirt. Okay. Something sleeveless? 303: Is it a. They put on a. Interviewer: Say if they were wearing a a suit. 303: Um. Interviewer: To go somewhere like. 303: Well they Interviewer: We were dressing up. 303: Then they'd put on a their underwear. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Um. 303: #1 {D: First} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Uh-huh what about Um. I'm thinking of um you have on you have on a shirt. And. Then before they put on their coat they put on this little sleeveless thing. That buttons down the front. 303: That's called a a jacket. Or either. It's called something else. {X} It ain't called a scarf I don't think. Interviewer: What about vest? 303: A vest. Yeah that's what it is a vest. Interviewer: Okay. Is one of those words more old-fashioned than another? 303: Well. The old one the fashion word is a is a jacket. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Okay so you say that a suit consists of a coat a jacket and then what else? 303: S- suit. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 303: Uh the. Uh the suit's put over the jacket. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Um. So you have the the coat and the vest and then this would be? What do you wear over your legs? What's it called? 303: Uh stockings. Interviewer: Okay but a man. Um um do you say pants or trousers or? 303: P- pants. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: Or either trousers. Interviewer: Okay um. And. What you're wearing now. 303: Uh. Overalls. Interviewer: Okay. And um. Say you go outdoors in the winter without your coat. Um. You might ask someone to to go back inside and what me my coat? Go back inside and {X} 303: {X} Interviewer: Okay {X} 303: {X} Interviewer: Okay but {X} you say he went inside the house and he what me my coat? 303: {X} Interviewer: {X} 303: Bring. {X} Bring me my coat. Interviewer: Okay. So you say so then he went back inside the house and he what me my coat? He? 303: Maybe didn't find it. Interviewer: Okay but if he did find it. Then he He said he. He found it and he what it to me he? 303: I brought it to you. Interviewer: Okay. And you say here I had what you your coat here I 303: Well. You stumped me again right there. {X} Interviewer: You say here I brought you your coat here I brung you Your coat or what? 303: Um. Bring me your coat. Or. That's the nearest I know to it. Interviewer: #1 Okay it's # 303: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Huh? 303: That's the nearest I know to that answer. Interviewer: Okay. Um. You say that coat won't fit this year. but last year it what perfectly? Last year it- 303: It fit perfectly last year but {X} and it's too small. Interviewer: Okay. And. You say if you'd just bought a suit it wouldn't be an old one it would be a? 303: Newer. Interviewer: Or a new what? A new s- 303: New new suit. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And if you stuck a lot of things in your pockets it makes them 303: Uh. {X} It dresses it off. Interviewer: It what? 303: Dresses it off. If I stuck a lot of things in my pocket Interviewer: Uh-huh 303: {D: Pocketbook} knife something like that {X} Interviewer: Yeah. Okay or it makes your pockets? What out? It makes 'em. 303: It makes 'em flatten out. Interviewer: Okay what about bu- 303: {D: Bulks.} Or Interviewer: Do you say bulge out or bulge out or {C: pronunciation}? 303: Yeah bulged out. Bulged out. Interviewer: Okay. Um. You'd say well that that shirt used to fit me fine but. I washed it and it? 303: It's drawed up Interviewer: Okay or it. Another word for that it? 303: {D: Has shrinked.} Interviewer: Okay. And you say say every shirt I've washed recently has? 303: {NW} {D: Shrunk up} {X} right there Interviewer: Okay but the same word. Say it seems that every shirt I've washed recently has 303: Sh- shrunk. Interviewer: Okay. And you say I hope this new shirt won't 303: Shrink. Interviewer: Okay. If a woman likes to put on good clothes and spends a lot of time in front of the mirror making herself look pretty you say that she likes to? 303: Primp. Interviewer: Okay. Any other words for that? 303: Uh. No more that I can think. Interviewer: Okay would would you say that a man likes to primp? 303: Yes. Yeah. Some men likes to primp. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um. This is something a little {X} container that's got a little clasp on it. And. You can carry coins in. 303: Mm. It's a pocketbook. Interviewer: Okay. What about um another name for that? 303: Purse. Interviewer: Huh? 303: My let's see. I forgot the other name. Interviewer: What about something that a woman would carry over her arm? 303: That's a that's a pocketbook. Interviewer: Okay. Can you think of another name? 303: No I can't. But there is another name. But I can't think- Interviewer: #1 What about # 303: #2 of it. # Interviewer: Pur- 303: Uh Purse. Interviewer: Okay. Um. What is this is a piece of jewelry that a woman might wear around her wrist. 303: {NW} You'd call that a bracelet. Interviewer: Okay. And. This is something that's a lot of little things strung up together. And. {X} {X} 303: {X} {D: But I can't think of it} {X} Interviewer: {X} {X} {X} {X} Okay would you say string of beads or 303: String of beads. {X} string of beads. Interviewer: {X} Okay. And this is something that men used to wear to hold up their trousers. 303: Galluses. Interviewer: Okay. And if it was raining outside you might carry a? 303: Umbrella. Interviewer: A what? 303: Umbrella Interviewer: Okay. Um. And what's the last thing that you put on a bed? You know the fancy top cover. 303: Counterpane. Interviewer: Okay. And um. At the end of the day you put your head on a? 303: Pillow. Interviewer: Okay. What about something about twice as long as a pillow? 303: Bolster. Interviewer: Okay. You say how about far across did the bolster 303: #1 It # Interviewer: #2 go # 303: goes straight across from here. Interviewer: Oh I see. Do you remember having those? 303: Huh? Interviewer: Do you remember having those? 303: Yes ma'am. I remember using that. Interviewer: Okay and uh this is something that women might piece together to put on a bed for warmth. 303: Piece together. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: A spread. Interviewer: Okay what was that like? 303: Huh? Interviewer: What was the spread like? 303: Well I guess it's more like a quilt. {X} {D: That's called a spread.} Interviewer: {X} {X} {X} um material? 303: {D: Cloth.} Interviewer: What kind? {X} 303: {X} {X} Interviewer: Okay. Um. But has a fancy um design on it? Like a quilt? 303: Ye- yeah sort of yes ma'am. and it's got pretty flowers on it. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay say. Um. Say you have a lot of company over you didn't have enough beds you might make a little thing on the floor for children. 303: Yes. Pallet. Interviewer: Okay. Um. {NS} And you say um. We expect a a big crop from that field this year because the soil is very? 303: Wet. Interviewer: Okay. Or. You want to say the soil is very rich. 303: #1 Oh- okay # Interviewer: #2 You say. # The soil is very- 303: Dry. Interviewer: Okay what about very fer-? 303: Huh? Interviewer: What about the word fertile? 303: Fertilize. Interviewer: Huh? 303: W- w- w- you need fertilizer. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay um. What do you call land that's lies along a stream? And that's um overflowed in the spring. 303: Well that's what they call low low place. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 303: And a field or in a s- side of a creek. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. What's bottom land? 303: It's Interviewer: a box 303: bottom land that's uh ten fifteen twenty acres long side down in the level Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh. # 303: #2 like this floor. # So many acres in it. It's called a bottom land. Interviewer: Is it {X}