Interviewer: Okay say um the second cutting of poke or of grass 330: Cutting Interviewer: The second cutting 330: Oh Interviewer: What do you call that old dead dry grass? 330: Uh the dead grass out in it Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Well I'd call it a just a dead grass. {X} A lot of grass dies earlier and it course this stuff some of it gets dies earlier than others. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: And I'd call it dead just you said after you cut it you done cut it once go to cut it the second time? Interviewer: Yeah. And then grass that's left over on the ground 330: Oh that's just dried up hay. Interviewer: Okay. 330: I call it. Interviewer: Um 330: Yeah. We always have a little of that, you know, that left on the ground scattered dry. Interviewer: Yeah. When you okay talking about wheat. Wheat is tied up into 330: Bundles. Interviewer: Okay. And then they're they're piled up into a 330: Shocks. Interviewer: Okay. Um what's done with oats to separate the grain from the rest of it? 330: well it's thrashed with a combine Interviewer: What's that? 330: We thrash it and then now they combine 'em, you know. Interviewer: What's that oat 330: It it's a it's a machine that that took place of thrasher, we used to set the thrasher to cut 'em and shocked 'em out there in the field like I said shock 'em and then uh we get a thrasher to come to us farm, and we'd sit and thrash 'em. But now they they combine this stuff. All of it. Barley, wheat oats. Rye and everything. Just combine it. That fix it and cuts it and thrashes all at the same time. Interviewer: So you say that oats thra- 330: They combine all of it. Interviewer: Okay. Um say if there was um some job that um we had to do today, you say just the two of us. Um you could say that we'll have to do it, or you could say talking to me, you'd say 330: We got to get that job done, now. Interviewer: Okay but talking to me. You might you might say we or you might say 330: I've got to get it done? Interviewer: Or me too, though, it'd be 330: Yeah. Interviewer: Would you say me and you, or how how'd you say that? 330: Well I I'd call your name, and say you know we've got that job to do, we just gotta get at it and get it done. Interviewer: Okay. 330: Yeah, that's the way. Interviewer: Okay. Um and talking about this would you ever say this job is for both of us, or this job is for all two of us, or 330: For both of us. Interviewer: Both of us? Okay. Um talking about how tall you are, you'd say, he's not as tall as 330: Not as tall as as I, or not Interviewer: Okay. Or I'm not as tall as 330: As you. Interviewer: Or 330: He. Interviewer: Okay. Um and you say he can do that better than 330: I can. Interviewer: Okay. If something belongs to me then you'd say it's {NS} 330: That's mine. Interviewer: Okay. Um or if it belongs to me then it's 330: You it's hers Interviewer: Okay or you- 330: Uh ours. Interviewer: Okay. Um if it belongs to you then it's 330: Uh mine. Interviewer: Okay. Or what about say it's yo- 330: Say what? Interviewer: That you would say if something belongs to me, then it's 330: Oh I see, that's well that's yours. Interviewer: Okay. Um and if it belongs to them then it's 330: Ours. Way I'd say it, the both of us. Two different parties would be you know man and wife {D: two} I guess is what you {X} too, thinking about Interviewer: Okay and if if you say it belongs to us then it's ours, if it belongs to them then it's 330: It's theirs. Interviewer: Okay. And if it belongs to him, then it's 330: It's his. Interviewer: Okay do you ever say his one? How does that sound? 330: Well I guess I guess it would be alright yeah. Interviewer: Did you ever say that? 330: No I never did. I guess it would be alright. Interviewer: Who says that? Does it sound familiar or 330: {D: I may} some of 'em does people that do it {NS} {NW} Interviewer: Um wait a minute say if um do you ever use the word y'all or you all? Talking to a group of people? 330: Sure have. Y'all. Interviewer: Do you use that for one person, or 330: For several. Interviewer: Several. 330: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Okay suppose there had been a group of people at your house and they were fixing to leave and you were asking them about their coats. You'd ask 'em, where are 330: Your things, you got your things? Interviewer: Okay but if you're talking to a group of people, would you say your things or 330: Your things Interviewer: Would you ever say you all's 330: Uh yeah {X} would say you all I guess. Interviewer: Okay um and asking about the people at a party say there had been a party and you hadn't been there um and you wanted to know the people that had gone you might ask, who 330: Had had gone to the party? Interviewer: Would you ever say who all? 330: I guess it would be uh I don't know exactly how to how to answer Interviewer: Does it sound familiar? That's all I 330: You all? Interviewer: Yeah or who all was there 330: Would be there? Interviewer: Yeah. Does that sound 330: Yeah I guess it would. It uh uh yeah all y'all would be there I guess it'd sound alright. Interviewer: Could you ask who all was there? 330: Mm-hmm, that's fine, who all was there And course then there there could be several of 'em, you know Interviewer: Yeah. 330: You'd ask who all were there? Last night or something like that. To the party. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Okay um and say there was a group of children playing somewhere and they obviously belonged to more than one family and you wanted to know, would you ask who who all's children are they? 330: Mm-hmm. Whose children were they, or what they doing, forgot to play with something or other yeah I'd ask who who who whose child was it if it got hurt or something playing just playing. Interviewer: And suppose there had been a speech that was made and you hadn't been able to hear it and you wanted to know what um you wanted to know the the content of it. Would you ask what all did he say, or just what did he say, or 330: Yeah I'd like to tell 'em well I'd like to hear it. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Would you recite it for me? {X} Let me hear it. Interviewer: Or would you ask someone though, what all did he say 330: #1 What all did he # Interviewer: #2 Does that sound # 330: Say #1 mm-hmm # Interviewer: #2 Huh? # 330: yeah. Interviewer: Okay 330: Yeah. Interviewer: Um you say if no one else will look out for 'em, you say they've gotta look out for 330: Themself Interviewer: Okay and you say if no one else will do it for him, then he better do it for him 330: He'd have to do it his self if nobody else could do it for him, I guess. Interviewer: Okay. And um tell me about some different kinds of of bread that you remember 330: Bread? Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Just uh eating bread, any kinda bread, cornbread or biscuits? Interviewer: Okay. What if it's if it's made baked in loaves what do you call 330: black bread Interviewer: Okay. 330: Loaf bread, they make uh we I don't know what you I'd call light bread some of 'em called it loaf bread. Interviewer: Yeah. What if it's made to rise with yeast? 330: That's uh that's just light bread loaf bread you call it. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Put yeast in it it rises Interviewer: Okay um what else is made out of flour? What other types of bread? 330: Well buns and uh cakes I guess pie crust, too. Could be made out of flour. Interviewer: What about things made out of corn meal? 330: Corn meal? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 330: Hoecakes and hoes and and uh I mean hoecakes and uh muffins {NW} corn sticks and uh just plain corn bread. Interviewer: How do you make hoecakes? 330: Just pour it out in a skillet or something like I was saying about that earlier {D: what my old man used to do} just cut it up and just pour it in there and leave it all in one one piece you know and you cook after it get cooked then you take a knife cut it up. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Small pieces to eat. I call that hoecake. Interviewer: What about something that you make like with shape it with your hands like this 330: Well that would that would uh uh I know I can't think of it what what what you call it, but uh I've seen it. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: I've seen c- shaped that way. Interviewer: What about something that you'd make with corn meal just using corn meal and salt and water? 330: Corn light bread. Interviewer: How do you make that? 330: They they they make it out of meal, and uh and uh and you say water and and I think don't use any milk. Believe that's the way it is. Interviewer: What about something that's um just corn meal and salt and water and it's 330: Plain bread. Interviewer: Yeah and you can no it's not a bread it's not really cooked that much 330: It ain't? Interviewer: Yeah. You ever heard of mu- 330: Heard of what? Interviewer: Mush? 330: Mush? Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Yeah I guess yeah I've heard of it. Mush. But I never I've never seen any fixed like that, I Interviewer: How 330: Never saw any fixed. Like that. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: But that's it's when you stir it up it becomes sorta like a mush Interviewer: Yeah. {NS} 330: You don't cook it much? You say? Interviewer: I I'm not sure. I don't think so. Do you 330: I just don't know. Interviewer: Did you ever have it? 330: Mm-mm. Never did {X} Interviewer: What about something made out of corn meal and um you might um might fry it in deep fat little balls 330: Oh. uh uh hush puppies. Interviewer: Okay. Um you ever heard of a corn dodge? 330: Corn what? Interviewer: Dodger? 330: Yeah. I sure have. That's them things like you said I guess you'd call it made I reckon I believe that's what the way they made 'em. Corn dodgers, it would be a little old thing to {D: pour it just a little} you know little thing on something like that Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 330: And to eat they're good, I've eaten 'em. I believe that's what they call 'em, corn dodgers. Interviewer: Yeah. What does the word pone mean? 330: Pone? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 330: That's just a loaf of bread pone pone or bread I'd call it kind of a like a loaf. Interviewer: So corn pone is the same as corn bread? 330: I I'd call that uh-huh same thing. Interviewer: Okay um you say there are two kinds of bread, homemade bread and and the kind that you buy at the store, called 330: Homemade bread you made home Interviewer: Homemade bread, and then there's the kind that you buy at the store. And you call that 330: Well you uh you talking about now the loaf bread? Uh Interviewer: Okay. Yeah. 330: Well you see then you you buy bread that's made down there, now you make 'em they used to buy yeast and make that light bread my mother used to and and then they bakers make it, that's what you talking about, ain't it? Interviewer: #1 Yeah when the baker # 330: #2 Called it loaf # We called it loaf bread. My mother did, when she made it. And they called it light bread you know Interviewer: Yeah. 330: when they buy it out of the store. Interviewer: I see. Um what this something that's fried in deep fat and it's got a hole in the center. 330: Fried in deep fat Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And it's got a hole in the center. 330: Mm you got me now. Fried in deep fat and got a hole in the center. Interviewer: Yeah you know. It's got a hole in the middle. It's round, like this and sort of more like a dessert than bread. 330: Sort of a pudding like? Interviewer: I'm thinking of donut. 330: Donut oh. Donut something like donuts you say? Cookies? Interviewer: Yeah well um I was thinking of donuts. Do you have any other um names for donuts or different types of donuts or anything? 330: Well they have they have a lot of different types, you know course chocolate co- lemon and uh I guess most any kinda different don't they flavor a whole bunch of different ones I I I just like a plain one really better than I do those others. {X} {X} I like 'em to eat drink coffee. When you drink some coffee, eat 'em with it. That's the way I like a donut. Interviewer: Yeah. Um this is something that you make up a big batter and you fry three or four of these at one time. And- 330: Flat cakes? Interviewer: Huh? 330: flat cakes Interviewer: Okay. What what do you call that flat 330: Yeah. Just put 'em in there and and and cook it in the skillet. flatter cakes what I'd call it. Interviewer: And you call those {D: flatter} 330: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: #1 Flatter cake. # 330: #2 Flatter cake. # Interviewer: #1 # 330: #2 # Interviewer: Okay any other names you ever heard for that? 330: No, I don't know that I've ever heard 'em called anything other than flatter cakes. Interviewer: Okay say um the inside part of the egg would be called the 330: Yellow. Interviewer: Okay. Um and if you cooked 'em in hot water, what would you call 'em? 330: Boil 'em. Interviewer: Boiled what? 330: Boiled eggs. Boiled egg. Interviewer: What if you crack 'em and let 'em fall out of the shells in hot water? 330: What if you do crack 'em? Interviewer: Yeah and let 'em fall out of the shells in hot water. 330: Well I guess it- it would uh it would cook. I don't know what you how you'd Interviewer: Do you have a name for that though? 330: Huh? Interviewer: Do you have a name for that? 330: Uh-uh, I never did see any done like that I don't know what you what you would call it Interviewer: You've never heard of poached eggs or porched eggs or 330: I've heard of it, but I never did I never eaten none, never Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Sick people I've heard people you know being sick said they fed 'em poached eggs but I never eaten any, never did see any that's what you call a poached egg would be when you break it in well I've heard of that, people sick people feeding sick folks poached egg, had to eat poached eggs, but I didn't I never eaten one in my life, never Interviewer: Yeah. And this is something that's kinda like a fruit pie only it's it's baked in a deep dish and it's got several layers of this fruit and dough 330: Fruitcakes? Interviewer: No I'm thinking of so you first of all you put a layer of dough then you put maybe a layer of apples and then another layer of dough then some more apples and keep going 330: Oh that would be I guess it'd be Interviewer: And it's baked in a deep dish. 330: Well I don't know how to- how to get it there. It just Interviewer: You ever heard of a cobbler or a 330: Cobblers? Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Yeah. Cobblers but I thought you just put them in and kinda roll 'em up and put 'em in a Interviewer: {NW} 330: bowl or something or other Interviewer: {NW} 330: bread you know roll it out put your fruit in there and I thought then just put it pull a little bread over it and bake 'em that a way. {X} Cook 'em. I thought that was a cobbler. Interviewer: Um say someone has a good appetite, you'd say he sure likes to put away his 330: {NW} put away his food. Interviewer: Okay. Do you ever use another word for food? 330: yeah vittles Interviewer: {X} What's the difference? In those words. 330: I don't know if it's anything at all but uh I've heard people call 'em vittles old people Interviewer: Yeah. 330: And it's this food they've ever eaten you know would be just a could be anything by putting it away, eating a lot of it. vittles we'd call I've heard my aunts over talk about it they got up in between these now and talk about {X} they didn't talk like we did, you know. They talked like oh they sure they sure put away them vittles {X} tickled me to death. I By the time one died well she lived near to ninety years old. She used to tickle me to death talking my mother died when she was just forty-seven. My daddy didn't live to be course almost eighty he married again Interviewer: Yeah. Um you might take some milk or cream and mix it with sugar and nutmeg and pour it over a pie what would you call that? 330: Sugar and uh milk mixed it up with milk and Interviewer: Yeah. 330: and pour it over a pie? Interviewer: Yeah. 330: I guess it uh would be a to make a cream like something put to pour over they would call it? Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Some kinda seasoning or dressing to it wouldn't it? Interviewer: Okay. Um food taken between regular meals, you'd call that a 330: Taken between regular meals? Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Well sn- uh had to have a snack I guess. Interviewer: Okay. Um you'd say this morning I what breakfast at seven o'clock. 330: I eat my breakfast at seven o'clock ate breakfast seven o'clock Interviewer: Okay. And you'd say yesterday at that time I'd already 330: Done eating. Interviewer: Okay. And you say um tomorrow I will 330: Try to try to eat earlier or Interviewer: Okay. Um how do you make coffee? 330: Just put it in water and boil it it it let it percolate so long I don't know how long when it comes to perk let it and then it'll quit I made it when I was young, and I made I have made some not too long ago. Just put it in there and let it come to that perk and when it quits perking it'll cut out. Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 330: #2 Yeah # I figure it's ready {NS} to drink then, or isn't it? Drink it. Interviewer: Okay. Um say if you were real thirsty you might go to the sink and pour yourself a 330: Glass of water. Interviewer: Okay. 330: Milk. One Interviewer: Um you say somebody that glass fell off the sink and 330: Broken. Interviewer: Huh? 330: Broke broke. Interviewer: Okay. Um you might say um somebody has what that glass. Somebody has 330: Knocked it off Interviewer: Okay and the glass has 330: Fell in something. Got into something or other. Interviewer: And has done what? It has 330: Uh {D: drank} something or stick it on something else cuz fell in it oh you mean it broke and fell in? Interviewer: Yeah. 330: And it's destroyed something Interviewer: Yeah. 330: I think. Interviewer: Okay you say but um I didn't mean to what that glass. I didn't mean to 330: Didn't mean to do to knock it over? Interviewer: And 330: Break it. Interviewer: Okay. Um say if if I ask you how much did you drink, you'd say I what a lot? Of water. I 330: So many glasses I'd say after all I drunk three glasses or Interviewer: Okay. 330: Four glasses or something like that Interviewer: And then you might ask me how much have you 330: Drank? Interviewer: Okay. Um or you might say you certainly do 330: Enjoy it. Drinking it. Interviewer: Okay. Um if dinner's on the table and the family's standing around the table, you know, waiting to begin what do you say to them? 330: Have seats. Interviewer: Okay. It's the same thing if you have company? You say 330: Yeah. Come on have sit down ready to eat. Interviewer: Okay. Um someone comes into the dining room and you tell 'em won't you 330: Have a seat Interviewer: Or won't you what? 330: Sit down, eat with us, or Interviewer: Okay. And you say so then he what down? Then he 330: He well he sit down and eaten with us. Interviewer: Okay. Um you say nobody else was standing up because they'd all what down? 330: All all have sat down. Interviewer: Okay. Um say there were some potatoes on the table and you wanted someone not to wait until the potatoes were passed to them. You'd say 330: Pass me the potatoes. Interviewer: Yeah or you tell someone just go ahead and 330: Help yourself. Interviewer: Okay. So you'd say um so he went ahead and 330: And what {D: help his self?} Interviewer: Okay. You say um I asked him to pass 'em over to me since he'd already what himself? 330: He he done he'd already had 'em or well wait on his self Interviewer: Or he'd already what himself #1 # 330: #2 # {NW} wait on himself first, I guess you'd say. Interviewer: Okay. Um or using the word help you'd say since he'd already 330: Helped himself. Interviewer: Okay. Um someone offers you some food and you decide you you don't want it, you'd say no thank 330: I don't care for any. Interviewer: Okay. Um and if food's been cooked and served a second time 330: warmed over Interviewer: Okay. Um you put food in your mouth and then you begin to 330: Chew it. Interviewer: Okay. Um let's see this is um the things that peas and carrots and beets and so forth you call those 330: What I call them? Interviewer: Yeah. 330: What you you mean there's three four different ones together and you call 'em something? Interviewer: Yeah I'm thinking of the word vegetables. 330: Oh yeah. Interviewer: #1 What- # 330: #2 Call it a # vegetable. Interviewer: Okay but what if they're grown? At home? 330: Where do you grow 'em at? Interviewer: Would you have a different name depending on whether you grew 'em yourself or whether you bought 'em? 330: No I wouldn't, I'd just well if I went to you know grow 'em myself I'd call 'em like I said beets or Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Or cucumbers or squash or okra or whatnot, and if I went to the store of course I'd ask for Interviewer: Yeah. 330: {X} Interviewer: I think you mentioned I don't think it's on the tape but I think you mentioned the word truck or something 330: A what? Interviewer: The word truck. Something like 330: Oh Interviewer: Or would you say 330: Yeah we have the truck farming Interviewer: What's what's that mean? 330: Well they raise our neighbors here they what he used to truck farm every year, he'd plants a little of everything carries it to market and sells it. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 330: {D: gadget} He plants corn tomatoes squash cucumbers, okra beans potatoes onions everything. And picks it and carries it I call that truck gardening. Interviewer: You call the stuff he grows trucks? 330: Uh-huh uh the vegetables. Call it vegetables. And truck garden. Interviewer: I see. Okay um this is something that's made from um people take ashes and get this lime and then take corn 330: Make hominy? Interviewer: Okay. Um and this is a starch that's you can eat it, it's from the grain and it takes a lot of water to grow its so they don't grow it much around here but they grow it further down south I think. Um and people in China and Japan eat it a lot. 330: Rice? Interviewer: Okay. Um and do you have any names for um alcohol that's cheap whiskey or homemade beer? 330: {D: never did have what} Interviewer: Johnny what do you call cheap whiskey? Or homemade beer? It's not legal, you know. 330: Oh. {NW} moonshine. Interviewer: Okay. Any other name? 330: Uh well {NW} white lightning, some of 'em calls it I've heard 'em call it, I Interviewer: Yeah. 330: I don't know. Moonshine, white lightning, whiskey. Interviewer: Do they have any of that around here? 330: Sour mash. I've heard 'em call it I never have seen it never have been yeah I heard of people making it one of 'em I lived with my father and our home burned up up there when the children was little the fellow made it wasn't too far from we could just almost taste it and people would would be coming by the road there all night keep us awake all night going in there and getting it. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: I had to do about much keep my boy from going out there they thought there was something going on you know and they want to call and let 'em go. And I got the fellow to move, I told him, I said these kids are raising sand about it #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Raising what? # 330: and if they ever go out there my children I said they won't go out there, say something going on. They want to see what it is I said now you better move it out Interviewer: Yeah 330: Cuz they they're gonna tell it in school. If there's something going on up there and I won't let 'em go out there and look at it. See about it. They want to go check on it and figure it out so one night they moved all night hauled it away. I don't know where they carried it. Didn't care. {D: just as long as it got away so} my children wouldn't go out there to see it. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Well you could just taste it, they'd make you know that stuff cool just that air be back in that vicinity and then well they just like we cooking it in our own yard. Interviewer: Yeah. You said your children were raising what about 330: They wanted to go out to see what it was Interviewer: Yeah how did you say that? They were raising 330: Huh Raising Cain, I said wanted to go out there and see what was going on. Interviewer: I see. Um what what about beer? What did you call that? 330: Well you can call it uh home brew, used to make it home brew brew. In the countries way back years ago when I was young they made it and they didn't have no iceboxes then and all and they'd store it in the ground in the cellar. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 330: Dig a hole and just put it down in the if it got too hot it'd blow. {D: up} {X} Called it brew. Home brew. Interviewer: Yeah. If something was cooking and made a good impression on your nostrils you'd tell someone just that just 330: delicious smell delicious Interviewer: Yeah or tell someone just smell it 330: Real good. Interviewer: Okay. Um okay you say this is a say if you have a belt and it's it's cow hide, it's got something on there to tell you that it's cow hide and not anything else 330: Genuine. Interviewer: Okay. 330: Horse hide. Interviewer: Okay. Um when sugar was weighed out of a barrel you'd say that it was sold 330: {D: getting low} Interviewer: Okay but but when they didn't package it first, when they just weigh it to you out of a barrel you'd say the sugar was sold 330: By by the pound Interviewer: Okay. Or sugar was sold in 330: In in in a small quantities Interviewer: Okay. Do you ever use the expression in bulk? 330: In bulk? Interviewer: Uh-huh. Or sugar was sold loose or 330: Well uh they bought it you know loose, we all bought it loose, five pound a time, or ten pounds you know they'd just put it in a sack they bought it in and they'd weigh it up and them don't come in like five pound ten pound nowadays they'd sack it you know. Take it out of a the container and weigh it up to it. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: And they bulk if it was a bulk when they bought it the hundred pound that you know Interviewer: Mm-hmm 330: {X} hundred pound sack Interviewer: Okay what do you call a something that you can make out of apples, or something like 330: Cider? Interviewer: Okay but something that you could spread. On toast or biscuits 330: Uh Interviewer: Not jam but something 330: Oh I I- sauce? Applesauce? Interviewer: Um No it's something real common in other women would make it and then put it in these special glasses and pour paraffin over it to seal it 330: Jelly? Interviewer: Okay. Um and what do you have on the table to season food with you have your 330: Salt. Interviewer: What else? 330: Pepper. Interviewer: Okay. Um say if there was a some apples and a child a bowl of apples and a child wanted one, you'd tell someone 330: He want the apple, give him an apple Interviewer: Okay. Or he'd say get 330: Yeah. {NW} I want the apple. Gimme a apple. Interviewer: Okay. Um if you're not if you don't have any money at all, you'd say you're 330: Broke. Interviewer: Or 330: Busted. Interviewer: You're not rich, you're 330: Poor. Interviewer: Okay. Um you say if a man has plenty of money he doesn't have anything to worry about but life is hard on a man 330: With money it would be. Everybody be {D: laying for him} I'd figure, you know people would be has a lot of money children they have to watch the children mighty close. {X} wealthy and the people steal 'em you know on a swipe 'em out on a {X} that's a myth of life I'd figure if you had a lot of money and and these gangsters knowing it Interviewer: Yeah. 330: You'd have to terrible time to keep your children {X} out there in the private school you know they do what meeting there this I've known a few {X} {D: Nelson Hill and R.G. Hill} they had children and they had to send theirs to private school and they had people that would steal 'em Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 330: Children you know and want big ransom money all that kinda stuff. {D: I don't I'd like to have plenty} to have something to eat, and {X} clothes enough to wear, but I wouldn't want a world of money, cuz {NW} somebody'd be {X} aggravating you all the time kill someone or do something to you. Interviewer: Say if you had a lot of peach trees you'd say you have a peach 330: Lot of fruit. Interviewer: Peach what? If you have a lot of these peach trees. 330: Peach trees Interviewer: Yeah. 330: I'd say well I have a lot of peaches? Interviewer: Yeah. You'd call that 330: Oh peach orchard. Interviewer: Okay. You might ask somebody if that's his orchard and he'd say no I'm just a neighbor and he'll point to somebody else and say he's the man 330: He's the man got a fine has a fine orchard Interviewer: Okay. Um you say when I was a child, my father was poor. But next door was a child {NS} 330: Next door what? Interviewer: Next door was a child 330: My father was uh Interviewer: When I was a child, my father was poor. But next door was a child 330: Had plenty. Interviewer: Okay but talking about you want to say that his father is rich 330: Rich Interviewer: You'd say when I was a child my father was poor, but next door was a child 330: Was they was wealthy I'd say. Interviewer: Okay. Um you'd say my mother's not a nurse but I have a friend 330: Is a nurse. Interviewer: Okay but not my friend I'm talking about my friend's mother you'd say my mother's not a nurse, but I have a friend 330: Is is a wouldn't be wouldn't be as a nurse? You say? Interviewer: Yeah. Um would you say I have a friend that her mother's a nurse or I have a friend whose mother's a nurse, or how how would you say that? 330: Well I'd say uh my- my mother has a friend that {X} friend that is a nurse you say that would be? Interviewer: Okay. Um what do you call the inside of a cherry? The part that you don't eat. 330: Seed? Interviewer: Okay. What about a peach? 330: Would be the same thing, peach seed. Interviewer: Okay. There you know there's one kind of peach where the the flesh is 330: Yeah clear. Clear seed? Interviewer: Okay. Is that easy to get off, or hard? 330: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Easy? 330: Yeah you just {X} peach off of it you know. Take the seed throw the seed away. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: And a plum peach is thicker the kind, we called it, I we used to have a red looks like a beet Indian peach we made a peach pickle out of it. Interviewer: Peach pickle? 330: Mm-hmm. I love them better than anything in the world And it'd be red as blood, that we called it the Indian peach. Interviewer: Is a a plum peach hard to get off the 330: Mm-hmm, had to cut it off. Interviewer: Okay. Um what do you call the part of the apple that you throw away? 330: Core. Interviewer: Okay. And when you um cut up apples and dry them you say you're making 330: Cider? Interviewer: When you cut up the apples and dry them 330: Dry oh uh uh what uh you could dry 'em for to make pies out of 'em. Interviewer: Okay. Um what kind of nuts do you have? {X} 330: Nuts. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 330: Walnuts and hickories Interviewer: Okay a walnut 330: Pecans Interviewer: Okay. On a walnut you know it's got two coverings on it. 330: Mm-hmm got a hull and a shell. Interviewer: Okay. The hull's the outside? Very outside? 330: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Okay um what about huh? 330: That that's one that if it's green if you have a ringworm with form on you anywhere or something you can take that walnut, that hull and and scratch it or burst it a little something or other and rub it on that ringworm it'll kill it dead {D: four o'clock} Interviewer: #1 Oh really? # 330: #2 But it hurts. # Interviewer: #1 It hurts to put that # 330: #2 Sure sure will. # I imagine it kills {X} too if it got on you. Rubbed it on. But it sure kill that ringworm. I didn't mean to interfere with you but I Interviewer: No no it isn't that's interesting. I never heard that before. 330: I've done it. Got 'em bruise 'em and then just rub it on it. {X} might have to apply maybe two or three times but it'll kill it. You know ringworm you ever you ever had ringworms on you? Interviewer: Uh-uh. 330: Itch they'll itch you come a little place {X} you just worried to death, you gotta do something about it. Interviewer: What if it gets up I've see I've heard of people getting it up in their head 330: I'm I mean it'd be terrible to get {X} if you got one had one on your head you might've had to cut the have your hair cut- Interviewer: #1 your hair cut around it # 330: #2 Yeah # #1 I guess # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # 330: I never did have any on my just on my arms and body. Interviewer: What about nuts that grow in the ground? What kinds of nuts are there? 330: Gr- uh that grows down in the ground? Well uh I guess uh {NS} {X} can't think right now of any would they grow in the woods, or just you plant 'em, or Interviewer: Yeah like they have they grow a lot of these in Georgia 330: They do? Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Peanuts is the only Interviewer: Okay. 330: Main thing only ones I #1 know of. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # That's what I was thinking of. Is there another name for peanuts? 330: Goobers. Interviewer: Okay. Um what about a nut that is long and sort of flat and sort of shaped like your eye and you might find around Christmas. 330: Uh uh that's a English nut or uh oh I know exactly what you're talking about, yeah. It's black Interviewer: No it's not black. 330: #1 It's not black? # Interviewer: #2 I'm thinking of # something else sort of a blonde shell 330: Blonde shell. Interviewer: I'm thinking of almonds or almonds 330: Almonds? Interviewer: Uh-huh. 330: Yeah I've seen I've I've eaten almonds. But I thought you was talking about that black walnut like it's {D: you've already said that} I don't know what you call it but it's a black nut huh? Interviewer: Brazil nuts? 330: Some kinda funny name I I I like the taste of 'em Interviewer: You ever heard of a another name for those? 330: Uh-uh, I don't guess I ever did. Interviewer: You ever heard of anything called niggertoes? 330: Yeah. Interviewer: What's that? 330: Well that that's a chocolate candy. What we called niggertoes. Interviewer: Oh really? 330: Yeah. Chocolate little chocolate {NW} balls candy Interviewer: Uh-huh 330: Call 'em, niggertoes that's what I would call nigger- #1 toe. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # I've heard kind of nut. 330: A nut? Interviewer: #1 Yeah # 330: #2 Niggertoe. # Interviewer: that kinda black black nut about I think the one you were talking about 330: It might be the one I'm talking about might be I don't know what that is. I haven't seen any of those in years and years. But I have seen 'em Interviewer: Yeah. 330: And they they're bigger on one end than they are the other. Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 330: #2 Kinda # that the kind you- what you're talking about? Interviewer: Yeah I think. 330: And they call 'em niggertoe? Interviewer: I I'd heard that. 330: Well I I I imagine Interviewer: #1 I don't know if they'd say it seriously but # 330: #2 probably. # I imagine that's what it was, cuz I don't know what they call 'em, I haven't seen any in years, but I used to like 'em. But hardly now we don't have pecans and English walnuts just about the only nuts we use {X} to Christmas to fix cakes with and this friend of mine in North Carolina used to bring me two gallon every fall when he came to go to working in tobacco bring two gallon every fall. they grow the big ones, too they really grow 'em out there in North Carolina. {D: and next time I'm gonna get me some} {X} I have some little ones but they're too little, they're too {X} said he's gonna bring me some {D: sprouts} but he never did. Never think about it. {D: 'til he get ready to leave} I think that that pecan they called it pecan pecan Interviewer: Yeah. 330: It's what they called it. That sounds funny to me, hear 'em call it I'd ask him, did you bring me any pecans? Yeah we brought some pecans you know we gonna bring you pecans well I didn't get 'em I come get me a great big sackful Interviewer: Yeah. 330: And they funny oh we we had didn't have to buy any for years and years. This last year first time he missed coming Interviewer: What's a kind of fruit about the size of an apple they grow down in Florida a lot 330: Uh grapefruit? Not grapefruit uh uh uh I'm {NS} say they grow they grow 'em all of 'em grows in Florida? Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Uh {X} Interviewer: You make juice out of it and drink for breakfast 330: Grapefruit? Interviewer: No smaller than grapefruit. 330: Grapefruit just it's- it's a small? Interviewer: It's about the size of an apple. 330: It just slipped my mind, I can't remember seeing anything like that. {X} Interviewer: What about or- 330: Huh? Interviewer: Oranges? 330: Oranges? Tangerines, tangerines yeah. Interviewer: I was thinking of the other one, or- 330: Huh? Interviewer: I was thinking of that other one. 330: Tangerine? Interviewer: No. 330: Oranges? Interviewer: Yeah. Suppose you had a a bowl of these standing somewhere and one day you went in to get one and there weren't any left you'd say the oranges are 330: Gone? Interviewer: Okay. Um and um 330: Tangerines I like tangerines, they they uh I really like them better than I do oranges. Interviewer: Yeah. They're 330: Good, I think. But the oranges that you eat that you pick ripe are hundred to one better than we buy here in our country. You know get 'em off trees ripe? Interviewer: Uh-huh 330: I've had people bring some come down there off the tree and they just a hundred to one better than what we have here that they we get it was picked green, you know, and let 'em ripen {X} bring this kinda sour Interviewer: Um you say um he couldn't eat that piece of meat because it got stuck in his throat and he couldn't 330: Couldn't eat the piece of meat? Interviewer: Yeah. Now he could chew it but he couldn't 330: Couldn't swallow it? Interviewer: Okay. Um and what do people smoke, made out of tobacco? 330: Cigarettes? Interviewer: Okay. What else? 330: Cigars. Interviewer: Okay. Um if someone offered to do you a favor you might say well I appreciate it but I don't wanna be 330: Get in the habit of it? Interviewer: Okay would you say I don't wanna be beholden or I don't want to be obligated 330: Obligated to Interviewer: Okay. Um someone asks you if you were able to do a certain thing, and you say sure, I do it. Sure, I 330: I yeah sure I can do it. Interviewer: Okay. Um uh or someone says can you and you say no I 330: Don't feel like it. Or don't don't don't care to try it or #1 something like that. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah or you'd say # Or I'd like to but I just 330: Not able to to do it. Interviewer: Or I just ca- 330: Ain't up to it. Interviewer: Okay they say can you? And you say no I 330: No I I just can't do it today. Interviewer: Okay. Um 330: Don't have time, I reckon in my time I don't have time to do a lot of stuff, I don't know. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: My wife says I can do what I want to, but I can't always have something to be done, I don't get it done, all of it. Interviewer: Yeah. You're kept pretty busy I guess. 330: Yeah gotta mow the yard, work the gardens truck patches {D: see to our} fences and cattle and only I don't get around to 'em all. See to it all, see to 'em every day. Interviewer: Yeah. What's truck truck patches? #1 What's that? # 330: #2 Mm-hmm, yeah. # 330: I plant you know beans and corn, pumpkins Interviewer: To sell? 330: I made now just to eat. We have peas, we have all kinda pea patches and we don't got a bunch planted and plant another bunch. and the next week parcel I don't know we'll have to get 'em planted and we'll have it 'til the freeze ca- come and gets 'em in Interviewer: Yeah. 330: That's the way I try to have 'em every year. All year I go to picking drying 'em put up sacks and shell 'em {X} to plant again another year. Just all do over again. Interviewer: Yeah. Okay you'd say in a dangerous situation he what to be careful, he 330: Say what? Interviewer: In a dangerous situation, a person what to be careful 330: He to not get hurt, I'd think Interviewer: Yeah. 330: If you don't be careful or mighty careful I would he's liable to get hurt seriously or something like that. Interviewer: So you say he he belongs to be careful, he ought to be careful 330: He oughta be careful or he'll get hurt himself. Interviewer: Okay. Um you say I'll dare you to go through the graveyard at night but I bet you what 330: I dare you but I bet you are scared to scared to Interviewer: Okay. You'd say I bet you {X} or I bet you daren't or don't dare or how would you say that? 330: Well I I'd say well uh I I would dare you to go through there Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 330: And uh and then he'd say well I will and you say well I don't believe it you're too scared to go. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: That's what I'd say. I believe that's the same thing. Would that be sufficient? Interviewer: Yeah. Um say if a boy got a whipping and you'd say well I bet he did something he 330: didn't have any business doing. Interviewer: Okay. Or using the word ought you'd say 330: Ought not have done. Interviewer: Okay. If someone asks you would you do that? And you say no no matter how many times you ask me to do that I just 330: I just can't do it. Interviewer: Or I just 330: Won't do it. Interviewer: Okay. Um say you'd been doing some hard work all by yourself and all the time a friend of yours was just standing around watching you without helping when you get through you might go up to him and say now you know instead of just standing there you know you might 330: Might might need help to do it Interviewer: Or would you say you might might have helped might how would you say that? 330: I don't {D: know if} I got the real meaning now Interviewer: Say you've been working, and it was hard work. And you could have used some help and then when you're through, you'd go up and say now instead of you just standing there 330: You could have helped me do it. Or do this job. Interviewer: Okay. Um if someone asked you if you're able to do something some work you say well I'm not sure but I might 330: I'll try. Interviewer: Okay would you say I might could? 330: Mm-hmm. Yeah. I guess you would. I I might could, I'll try Interviewer: Okay. Um let's see and the kind of bird that sees in the dark. What do you call that? 330: Owl. Interviewer: Okay. There are two kinds, aren't there? 330: Hoot owl and screech owl. Interviewer: Okay. Um what about the kind of bird that drills holes in trees? 330: Peckerwood. Interviewer: Okay. Um 330: Woodchuck some call it. Interviewer: Woodchuck? 330: Yeah some of 'em call it woodchuck but I call 'em peckerwood. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: They you know red headed Interviewer: Yeah. 330: Just stop and hit that tree like that and just {NS} Interviewer: Yeah 330: they get juice out of that. They run in our apple trees and sugar trees too. Interviewer: What's sugar trees? 330: These out here maples out there in my yard. Interviewer: #1 Front # 330: #2 Yeah # yard. They peck holes all in 'em. Interviewer: Do you ever use that word peckerwood talking about people? 330: Yeah I've heard it called that peckerwood Interviewer: What does it mean? 330: It it {NW} I think it means sorta some mischief he did, #1 or something or other. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # It's not really bad to call a person 330: No, it wouldn't be too bad, he's just done some little mischief and you say that peckerwood done so and so. Interviewer: Yeah. 330: I've heard it said quite a few times like that. Interviewer: Yeah. Wife: Can't you stay and have lunch with us today? Interviewer: Well if y'all are ready to eat Wife: We won't be but a few minutes {X} Interviewer: Okay we're just about through Wife: {X}