Interviewer: {NS} Mrs. Alma {B}, tape seven. {NW} Um, the lone star state is? 370: Texas. Interviewer: And Tulsa is in? 370: Oklahoma. Interviewer: Uh, Boston is in? 370: Massachusetts. Interviewer: And all those states up in the Northeast? 370: The New England states. Interviewer: Ah, the biggest city in Maryland? 370: It'd be Baltimore. Interviewer: And the capital of our country? 370: Washington, D.C. Interviewer: And the, uh, city that has the blues named after it? 370: St. Louis. Interviewer: Mm-kay, the old seaport in South Carolina? 370: Charleston. Interviewer: Big mining center in Alabama? 370: Birmingham. Interviewer: And, biggest city in, uh, Illinois? 370: Uh, Chicago. Interviewer: Um, capital of Alabama? 370: Montgomery. Interviewer: And, uh, smaller city in Alabama that's on the Gulf Coast? 370: Uh, Mobile. Interviewer: {NW} Um, the main, uh, city in a particular county is 370: #1 called? # Interviewer: #2 Is called a # 370: county seat. Interviewer: County seat. You pay your taxes to the federal? 370: To the federal government, uh-huh. Interviewer: Um, the police in town are supposed to maintain? 370: Uh, order, and, uh, law and order. Interviewer: Uh, what was the war between the North and the South called? 370: The war between the states, and the Civil War. Interviewer: Mm-kay, if a person, uh, is a murderer, before we had the electric chair, what'd they do to him? 370: They hung him. {X}, I was about to say electrocute, but they didn't, they hung him. Interviewer: Um, Albany is the capital of? 370: Uh, New York state. Interviewer: And Baltimore is 370: #1 in? # Interviewer: #2 Is Maryland. # Uh, Richmond is the capital of? 370: Virginia. Interviewer: And, um, uh, state known for growing, um, tobacco? 370: Well, uh, North Carolina. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Right below that? 370: Is South Carolina. Interviewer: And where I live 370: #1 is? # Interviewer: #2 Is in # 370: Georgia. Interviewer: Where my mother lives? 370: Florida. Interviewer: And you live in? 370: Alabama. Interviewer: Um, Baton Rouge is the capital of? 370: Louisiana. Interviewer: And the bluegrass state? 370: Is Kentucky. Interviewer: Uh, 370: We've been there, they have beautiful horses. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 370: Noted for its horses. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Right below there is what? 370: Uh, Tennessee. Interviewer: And then on the, 370: #1 over on the river? # Interviewer: #2 Miss-, Miss-, # 370: Missouri. Interviewer: And the other river? 370: I've been there too. Uh, Interviewer: Better at the big river? 370: Mississippi. Interviewer: Mississippi. Uh, the lone star state? 370: Texas. Interviewer: Right next to that? 370: Uh, Oklahoma, is that right? Interviewer: Uh-huh. And, the, the state where the Pilgrims landed, what's that 370: #1 called? # Interviewer: #2 Massachusetts. # Okay, and all of 'em together? 370: All of what, now? Interviewer: All the North- 370: #1 eastern- # Interviewer: #2 Oh, # 370: this, uh, New England states, all of 'em Interviewer: #1 together. # 370: #2 Mm-kay. # Interviewer: Uh, the resort city that's in North Carolina, what's that called? 370: Uh, the resort, uh, place is in Asheville. Interviewer: Asheville. Uh, the city up in the mountains, in North Carolina? 370: Chattanooga, uh, it-, no, Chattanooga's in Interviewer: #1 Tennessee, isn't it? # 370: #2 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: What's another one in Tennessee? 370: Uh, Knoxville. Interviewer: Uh, biggest city in West Tennessee? 370: Memphis. Interviewer: And, uh, see, where Elvis Presley's from? 370: Uh, Nashville. Interviewer: Capital of Georgia? 370: Atlanta. Interviewer: And the seacoast city? 370: Savannah. Interviewer: Uh, where Fort Benning is, in Georgia, the name of that city? 370: Uh, is it Columbus? Interviewer: Uh-huh. And the one right, uh, north of Warner Robbins, what's the name of that city? 370: That's Macon. Interviewer: Macon. Uh, biggest city in Louisiana? 370: New Orleans. Interviewer: And the capital of Louisiana? 370: Baton Rouge. Interviewer: Uh, what's the biggest city in southern Ohio? 370: Uh, Cincinnati, I believe is the biggest city. Interviewer: Okay. And, uh, the city that, uh, Kentucky is noted for? 370: Louisville. Interviewer: Where the Derby is. Um, somebody asks you to go with them, and you're not sure you wanna go, you say, I don't know? 370: For sure, if I want to go, or if I can go. Interviewer: Okay. Uh, if you have a very sick friend and he's not likely to get any better, if somebody asks you how he's coming along, you'd say, well, it seems? 370: That he's, uh, about like he's, he's been, or he's not getting any better. Oh, I don't know that I'd say he's not getting any better, because he may be there, but I'd say, about the same. Interviewer: Okay. If you were asked to go somewhere without your wife, if you were a {D:married} man, you'd say, I won't go? 370: Unless I can carry my wife. Interviewer: If your daughter didn't help you with the dishes, you'd say, she went off playing? 370: Instead of helping with the dishes. Interviewer: If a man is funny, and you like him, you say, I like him? 370: Uh, because he's so funny. Interviewer: Unless he's not funny. Uh, the largest denomination in the South of the Christian church is? 370: Well, I guess it's the Baptists. {NS} It seems like there's more Baptist churches, everywhere you turn, there's a Baptist church. Interviewer: It seems that way. If two people become members, you'd say they? 370: Joined the church. Interviewer: Okay, in church, you pray to? 370: Pray to God, or the Father. Interviewer: Um, the preacher preaches a? 370: Sermon. Interviewer: And the choir and the organist provide the? 370: The music. Interviewer: And if it's real, real good that Sunday, you'd say, oh, that music is? 370: Beautiful. Interviewer: I thought I had time, but I got caught in traffic, and the post office was closed? 370: When I got there. Interviewer: Uh, the enemy and the opposite of God is called? 370: The Devil. Interviewer: Anything else? 370: Satan. Interviewer: Uh, what do people think they see at night, that frighten them? 370: Ghosts, uh, spirits, and different things. Interviewer: If ghosts or spirits live in a house, what do they say it is? 370: It's haunted. Interviewer: Uh, if it's getting kind of chilly outside, you say, you better put on a sweater, it's getting? 370: Cooler. Interviewer: Or, you might say it's 370: #1 get- # Interviewer: #2 Getting cold. # Or? 370: Kinda, or sorta cold. Interviewer: Okay, uh, I'd go, if you insist, but I'd? 370: Rather not. Interviewer: Oh, what do you say to a friend you haven't seen for a long time, and you're real happy to see 'em? 370: Oh, I'm mighty glad to see you. Interviewer: Uh, if he owns five hundred acres, how much land would that be? 370: Well, that's a good deal of land. It's a lot of land, I know. I've tried to look over five acres, five-hundred acres this last week, and it was a job. Interviewer: Uh, if you wanna say something stronger, more enthusiastic than just yes, if I asked you a question, and I said, could I have a piece of cake, you'd say? 370: Why, certainly. Help yourself. {NW} Interviewer: Uh, if I said, uh, can you really do that? You know, like stand on your head or something, you'd say? 370: #1 Uh, you # Interviewer: #2 Well, # think you can do that, you'd say? 370: I'm sure I can. Interviewer: Uh, if you wanted to be very polite to somebody, you'd say? Not just yes, but? 370: Yes, sir. Interviewer: What if it was a lady? 370: Yes, ma'am. Interviewer: Do you use it, in particular, for particular people? 370: Well, no, I don't think so, generally, if they're older than you are, Interviewer: #1 you'd # 370: #2 Uh-huh. # put the sir and the ma'am. Interviewer: Okay. 370: Otherwise, you'd say yes, and be just as polite, but, it's just the way you say yes, Interviewer: #1 you know. # 370: #2 Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: Um, if somebody intensely disliked to go somewhere, you'd say, he? 370: He hated to go. Interviewer: Uh, it wasn't just a little cold this morning, it was? 370: Really cold. Interviewer: Uh, if you slammed your finger in the refrigerator door, what do you say? 370: Uh, I'd say, oh, by gosh, I hurt my finger. Interviewer: Anything else? 370: Uh, I said, you might say, oh Lordy, have mercy. {NW} Interviewer: Uh, if you were a little angry at yourself for doing something, what might you say? If you were impatient with yourself? 370: Oh, sometimes I hate myself. Interviewer: Any other kind of exclamation you might make? 370: Well, you could say, shucks, aw shucks, why did I do that? Interviewer: Okay. When something is shocking, that you're really shocked about, and you hear about it, you, and somebody said something about you that wasn't true, you'd say, why? 370: Uh, where, why, why'd they get the idea, what caused it? I don't understand. Interviewer: When you meet someone, what do you say by way of greeting, about asking how they are? 370: Well, you could just say, hello, how are you? Interviewer: Mm-kay, when you're introduced to a strange person, what is it that you'd say? 370: Uh, I'm glad to know you. Or, how do you do? Interviewer: Uh, if you've enjoyed somebody's visit, and you want 'em to come back, you say? 370: Oh, I'm, um, really glad you came, and, come again. Interviewer: Uh, what greeting do you use at Christmastime? 370: Merry Christmas. Interviewer: And New Years? 370: Happy New Year. Interviewer: Uh, anything you might what, say, to, uh, say that you appreciate something, besides thank you? 370: Uh, I'm much obliged. {NS} That's kinda old-timey. Much obliged, you seem like- {NW} Interviewer: You, what would you say instead of much obliged? 370: Well, I'd say, thank you. Interviewer: #1 Thank you. Anything else? # 370: #2 Mm-hmm. # I appreciate it, Interviewer: Mm-kay. 370: instead of much obliged. Interviewer: #1 Uh, I just don't care for that. Uh-huh. # 370: #2 That sounds a little old-fashioned? # Interviewer: Uh, if you're not sure whether you'll have time or not, you say, I? 370: Uh, think I'll have time. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 370: I'll try to. Interviewer: {X} if you, uh, have to go downtown to do some- 370: Par-, particular shopping? Interviewer: #1 Or, # 370: #2 Mm-kay. # some shopping? Interviewer: You make a purchase, and the storekeeper takes a piece of paper, and he? 370: Wraps it. Interviewer: And then you get home, and you? 370: Unwrap it. Interviewer: Okay. If you sell for less than you paid for it, you'd say, I had to sell it? 370: Below cost. Interviewer: Uh, if you admire something, but you don't have enough money to buy it, you say, I like it, but it's? 370: It's too high, or I can't afford it. Interviewer: Uh, time to pay the bill, you say, this bill is? 370: Past, oh, it's due. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 370: When it's time to pay it, it's due. Interviewer: If you belong to a club, you have to pay the? 370: Dues. Interviewer: If you haven't any money, you go to a friend, and you try to? 370: Borrow some? Interviewer: When the banker is refusing a loan, he says, I'm sorry, but the money is? 370: Short. Or, scarce, now. Interviewer: Uh, when {D:Sheila} does, uh, her tricks in the swimming pool, she stands on the, um, springboard, and she goes in headfirst. What do you call that? 370: Dive. Interviewer: If she did it yesterday, she? 370: Dove? That, that doesn't sound right. I think that's right, though. Interviewer: Okay. Uh, if, uh, when you go in the water, and you land on your stomach, instead of going in headfirst, what do you call that? 370: Uh, they seem to me like it wa- it's a belly-something, but I've forgotten what they call it. Uh, belly flop. Interviewer: Uh, when you turn your, put your head down on the ground and turn over and over? 370: Somersault. Interviewer: Uh, if he wanted to cross the river, he dives in, and he? 370: Swims. Interviewer: If they, uh, if they did it before, they have? 370: They have swum, and they swam yesterday. Interviewer: Mm-kay. When you buy something and pay your bill, some stores will give you a little present, and they say it's for? 370: Just a little bonus, to show their appreciation. Interviewer: Uh, someone who got caught in a whirlpool and didn't get out of it, you'd say, he was? 370: Drowned. Interviewer: Uh, after he went down for the third time, you'd say, he? 370: Drow-, uh, drowned? Interviewer: Uh-huh. I wasn't there, I didn't see him? 370: Drown. Interviewer: When, uh, what does a baby do, before it craw-, before it walks? 370: Crawls. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh, you saw something up a tree, you wanted to take a closer look at it, so you went over to the tree, and you? 370: Climbed, the tree. Interviewer: It'll be hard, uh, it'd be a hard mountain to? 370: Climb. Interviewer: My neighbor? 370: #1 If she did it last year, she? # Interviewer: #2 Uh, # 370: climbed. Interviewer: But I have never? 370: Well, I guess you say clomb, but that just sounds terrible, doesn't it? Interviewer: A lot of people do- 370: Climb, climbed, clomb. Interviewer: Uh, if a man wants to, hide behind a low hedge, he has to? 370: Stoop, or bend. Stoop, I guess you'd say. Interviewer: Uh, she walked up to the altar, and she? 370: Knelt. Interviewer: Knelt. Uh, if she did, if she's doing it right now, what'd she do? 370: Kneeling. Interviewer: Mm-kay. You're tired, you say, I'm going to? 370: If you're tired, I'm going to rest. Interviewer: Okay, and 370: #1 what do you do when you rest? # Interviewer: #2 See, that's what you should say. # 370: You, uh, lie down, you're supposed to, well, I mean, that's better for you to get your feet up, that's the way I have to do. Interviewer: Uh, if he didn't get up all morning, he? 370: Stayed in bed. Interviewer: Talking about something you saw in your sleep, you'd say, this is what I? 370: Dreamed. Interviewer: Okay, you say, I dreamed so-and-so, and all the sudden, I? 370: Woke up. Interviewer: If you bring your foot down heavy on the floor, like this, you say, you're doing what? 370: Stomping. Interviewer: Um, if a man meets a girl at a dance, and he wants to go home with her, he says to her, may I? 370: Take you home? Interviewer: Uh, to get a boat up on land, you tie a rope to the bow of the boat, and? 370: Pull. Interviewer: When your car was stuck in the mud or snow, you'd ask somebody to get his car behind you give you a? 370: Push. Interviewer: Anything else you might say? 370: Shove, you could say, but I'd rather say push, because shove might tear car up. Interviewer: If you carried a very heavy suitcase a long distance, instead of saying, I carried it, you'd probably say, I? 370: Lugged it. Interviewer: If some of your children came into the house, and they were playing with something that was really important, what would you tell 'em to do? 370: I'd say, now, you be careful. Some mothers would say, don't touch that! But I, I don't know, I just don't think I could. Interviewer: If you need a hammer, you'd tell me to? 370: Bring the hammer. Interviewer: Okay. In playing tag, when the, uh, the kids have one place that's a safe place to be, you can't get tagged, what do they 370: #1 call that? # Interviewer: #2 They call that the base. # Mm-kay. 370: Home base, I think they call it. Interviewer: You throw a ball, and you ask somebody to? 370: Catch. Interviewer: I threw the ball, and he? 370: Caught. Interviewer: I've been fishing for {D:trout}, but I haven't? 370: Caught, any. Interviewer: Uh, let's meet in town, if I get there first, I'll? 370: Wait for you. Interviewer: Uh, after you've, uh, told a child he's gonna get a spanking, and he doesn't want one, he says, please? 370: Give me another chance. Interviewer: If a man is in a very good mood, you say, he's in a good? 370: Humor. Interviewer: Uh, if you hired a man who keeps on loafing all the time, you might decide to let him go, and, uh, you'd say to a friend of yours, I think I'm going to? 370: Fire him. Or get rid of him. Interviewer: He didn't know what was going on, but he? 370: I imagine, uh, he had a suspicion. He acted kinda like he knew what we were saying. Interviewer: Okay. If someone stole your pencil, what's a slang word you might use? 370: Uh, he swiped my pencil. Interviewer: Okay. 370: Uh, who swiped it? Interviewer: Uh, I'd forgotten about that, but now I? 370: Remember. Interviewer: Okay. You might say to me, well, you must have a better memory than I do, because I sure don't? 370: Remember. Interviewer: You say, I have just, if you're gonna send somebody a letter, I have just? 370: Written. Interviewer: Yesterday, he? 370: Wrote. Interviewer: And tomorrow? 370: I will write. Interviewer: Uh, if you ask a question, you expect? 370: An answer. Interviewer: You put the letter in the envelope, and then you take your pen, and what do you put on the outside of the envelope? 370: The address. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And when you're doing that, you say, I'm writing your? 370: Address? Interviewer: I want to write to so-and-so. Do you know what his? 370: Address is? Interviewer: If a little boy has learned something new, for instance, he, he's just learned to whistle, and you wanna know where he learned that, you'd say, who? 370: Taught you? Interviewer: When you were going to Mi-, when are you going to Miami? Right now, we're? 370: Leaving. Interviewer: Anything else you might 370: #1 say? # Interviewer: #2 Or, you could say, # 370: starting, to leave. Interviewer: Anything else? 370: Uh, fixing to leave. Interviewer: Uh, if a little boy has done something naughty, and a little girl saw him him do it, the boy might say, now, don't you go to mother and? 370: Tell. Interviewer: Anything else you call that? 370: Tattle-tale. Don't be a tattle-tale. Interviewer: If you want a bouquet for the dinner table, you go out in the garden, and? 370: Pick. Interviewer: Uh, something a child plays with, is? 370: Toy. Interviewer: Anything else you'd call it? 370: Well, play toys, still, toy. Interviewer: If something happened that you expected to happen, you might say? 370: I told you so, I knew it was gonna be that way. Interviewer: Okay. Uh, if I'm gonna give some-, um, present something to you, you say, that's the book you? 370: Uh, Interviewer: If I've done it in the past. 370: #1 That's the book you? # Interviewer: #2 Oh. # 370: That's the book you gave me. Interviewer: Mm-kay. I will? 370: Give. Interviewer: Or, when I finish, because you have? 370: Given. Interviewer: I'm glad I carried my umbrella, we hadn't gone half a block, when it? 370: Ran, began to rain. Interviewer: Uh, why are you out of breath? I was feeling so happy, I? 370: Ran all the way. Interviewer: Horses gallop, but people? 370: Run. Interviewer: They have? 370: Run. Interviewer: Uh, if you didn't know where a man was born, you might ask, where does he? 370: Come from? Interviewer: Uh, he, if he, if he arrived on the train last night, you say, he? 370: Came. Interviewer: Uh, he is? 370: Coming. Interviewer: Um, if you can look at somebody, you say, I? 370: See you. Interviewer: And I hope? 370: To see you. Interviewer: And we have? 370: Have seen you. Interviewer: You can't get through there, the highway department's got their machines in, and the road's all? 370: Torn up. Interviewer: You give somebody a bracelet and say to her, why don't you? 370: Put it on? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. My sister, she's the one responsible, you'd say, my sister? 370: Gave. Interviewer: Okay, she's done something, you'd say, my sister? 370: Did. Interviewer: Or, can you? 370: Can you do? Do? Interviewer: Sure, I have? 370: Done. Interviewer: You're sitting with a friend, and you're not saying anything, and all the sudden he says, uh, what did you say, you'd say, well I said? 370: Nothing. Interviewer: Uh, then you'd say, oh, I thought you said? 370: Something. Interviewer: I've never heard of? 370: Such a thing? Interviewer: Uh, if you've lived in town all your life, and somebody asks you, have you lived here long, you say, why I've? 370: Uh, always lived here. Interviewer: Uh, I got thrown once, and I've been scared of horses ever? 370: Since. Interviewer: It wasn't an accident. He did it? 370: On purpose. Interviewer: Uh, I don't know, what the answer is, you'd better? 370: Ask. Interviewer: Somebody else. So you? 370: Ask him. Interviewer: And he says, why, you've? 370: Asked. Interviewer: Uh, every time they meet, they 370: #1 get into an argument. # Interviewer: #2 Quarrel? # What do you call it? 370: Fight? Interviewer: Fight. Those boys like to? 370: Fight. Interviewer: They have? 370: Fought. Interviewer: Uh, a funny picture's on the blackboard, the teacher asks, who? 370: Drew? Interviewer: Uh, if somebody aims a large knife at somebody else, and like wounds him, he did what? What do you call that? 370: Stabbed him. Interviewer: If you've gone to lift something like a piece of machinery or something up on a roof, you might use pulleys, and blocks, and a rope, to? 370: Hoist. Interviewer: Hoist it up. And what, uh, are some of the different kinds of needlework that you've done? 370: Uh, oh, crewel embroidery, and catting, and crochet, and I know how to, um, do the needlepoint, but I haven't done any Interviewer: #1 yet. # 370: #2 Mm-hmm. # Where we went, up there this summer, she was making needlepoint pictures, and they were just beautiful. But I said, I didn't know if I'd ever get 'em finished, and get 'em framed, and all, like she had hers. Some of 'em cost eight and ten dollars, just to #1 put the # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # 370: frame on 'em. She had one picture there, she said it cost over twenty-five dollars, besides the work that she did on it. Interviewer: #1 Beautiful. # 370: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer: I made one, this summer, it- 370: #1 Mm-hmm. But it's, but it is # Interviewer: #2 Needlepoint? # expensive, I think just the materials cost about, about twelve dollars, plus it took me a month to 370: #1 do. Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: #2 Well, it, well, it was probably a good size, wasn't it? Uh-huh. # 370: Well these pillows that I have made, uh, throw pillows, kind of, for my bed, Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 370: I have all the material and have, uh, uh, embroidered 'em. That's what they call that crewel embroidery, when you use this wool thread on this mesh. But, uh, I've never pressed 'em. I had my leg broken, and I couldn't stand up to press 'em, so I just have never made the inner pillows, now, that, that, uh, put the fringe on 'em or anything yet, I just got the, embroidery done. Interviewer: Well, that's the main, that's the main part of the #1 work. # 370: #2 Yeah, # I have a beautiful picture in there, that I told Mildred I'd make for her. It's a, oh, I guess about this big, but I'm gonna embroider it and let her stretch it, Interviewer: #1 and frame it, # 370: #2 Mm-hmm. # and all that. She bought it for me, when I had my leg broken, just sitting around, but I told her, I said, no, I'll fix this one for you. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 370: #2 How'd you break your leg? # Interviewer: Well, I never did hear that story. 370: Well, I stepped, went over to Bia's, we'd been to Bible study, we go to Bible study every Tuesday. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 370: And, uh, we came back by there, to see him, and we were going down the steps. And he was on one side of me, and Tom was on the other, I generally hold the railing, going down. But neither one of 'em was holding me, and I wasn't holding either, I just, we were talking, and walking down, and I thought I was on the bottom step, and I lacked one. There was just a, a short distance between the last step and the sidewalk. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 370: Well, and I Interviewer: #1 had-, No, just about a # 370: #2 Not a real whole step, {X} # half a step, and I thought I was, just kinda glanced down, I thought, well, that was the last step. And I had on sandals, too, and they don't protect your ankles Interviewer: #1 worth a nickel. # 370: #2 Mm-hmm. # So down I went, and broke my leg right, right above, you see how swelled it is, Interviewer: #1 now? # 370: #2 Mm-hmm. # Right around there. Interviewer: I thought it was your hip, I don't know where 370: #1 I got that idea. # Interviewer: #2 Oh, no, it was that leg, # 370: And, uh, with my feet hanging down, I had to lay on this devonette in here, with both of my feet up above my head. For, Lord, I don't hav-, they said, either that, or go to the hospital. Interviewer: You mean, you didn't go to the hospital? 370: No, I didn't go to the hospital. Interviewer: #1 But- # 370: #2 Was it in a cast? # It was in a cast. But, um, after we-, this was after I took the cast off. The swell, oh, they was the biggest things you ever saw, and he thought of, um, what kind of leg is that you call it, when you, uh, your baby's born, lots of times, you have, um, flea bites, lots of times, you have flea bites, different things will cause it, but, Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 370: I know, uh, mothers, lots of times, have it, new mothers. And, uh, he said that I'd either have to go to the hospital, or lay with my feet up. Interviewer: #1 So, # 370: #2 I don't believe I'd have made that choice, myself. # I did, uh, this, this leg swelled nearly as big as this one. And this was the one they was afraid of the flea virus being in, you see. Interviewer: #1 And # 370: #2 Well, # Interviewer: did you hurt it, too? 370: No, I just, uh, poor circulation and, different things. But, uh, I have hardening of the arteries back here, and with this, uh, um, diabetes, too. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 370: Well, you just have to be real careful. And I take something for this, uh, back here, to dilate my ar-, arteries, so the blood can-, I don't get enough, oxygen to the brain, but that wasn't the reason I fell, I didn't stumble and fall. But, uh, Interviewer: Well, John said that's the second time you've fallen, when did you fall before? 370: I fell last year, in, um, the nineteenth of June, last year, when we were in New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Interviewer: Oh, visiting {D:Dale}? 370: And broke this arm, right here. And they put my arm like this, and put it in a kind of a stocking-like, and they said there wasn't any way for this to get out of place, if I held my arm just like that, and, but it'd be easier on me, not to put it in a cast. So they took this, and strapped it to my body, all the way around, and I had to wear that, about six months, strapped to me. Interviewer: Without ever moving it? 370: Yeah, you couldn't move it. It was just strapped, I cou-, I could do this. Interviewer: #1 I knitted. I used my finger-, # 370: #2 {X} # Yeah, used my-, hands in knitting. But, uh, I just had time. And it took just about a year, before I could reach back and fasten my brassiere, uh, reach over my head, or comb, or wash my back, or do anything, I thought I never was gonna get over that. Interviewer: It stayed caked, all that time, 370: #1 for six months? # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh. Nearly # 370: six months. How'd you take a bath, or anything like that?. Well, I just had to sponge, and, uh, the doctor changed the bandage. He changed it one time, before I left out there, and my doctor changed here, I think, changed it two or three times. Twice, I believe. But, uh, they said I could use it, I could do this, that, and the other. But, why, it hurt so bad, I couldn't do anything, hardly. And, I guess, I should have just gone on and used it anyway, Interviewer: #1 but # 370: #2 Mm-hmm. # it had been so long, that I hadn't used it, you see. Interviewer: Well, the bone was broken, though, you can't do, 370: #1 if it's muscles, that you sprained, you can go ahead and-, # Interviewer: #2 Well, uh, he said that, um, # 370: in six months, said, you ought to be as good as new. But, now this, just this bone, on the outside of my ankle, I only had to leave that six weeks. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 370: But, you see, I had the big bone, Interviewer: Uh-huh. 370: besides this little bone, and the little bone was healed. But this was that big bone, up here. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 370: And lifting and pulling, and all that, you see, well, this, you don't have any pull on it, much, so. But I thought I'd never get over that fall, and a year, It likely Let me see, this out there was in the nineteenth of June, and this leg was the tenth of July, of the next year. {NW} I, Tom said, what you gonna break next year, I said, Lord, I hope there be nothing to break next year. Interviewer: #1 He said, well I think, # 370: #2 {X} # I'll have to do you like the cowboy did, said, if you fall and, and break anything else, I'll just have to shoot you. That cowboy didn't know what to do, you know, so, it, when his daddy came to see him, and he said, well son, said, uh, where's your wife? He said, well, Pa, do you know she fell and broke her leg, and I had to shoot her? Interviewer: I hope that didn't really happen. 370: That kills me, I don't know, I don't guess it did, you see, his mother died, when he was young. This, uh, cowboy's mother died, and he went to town and saw these girls. And he told his daddy that he would like to have one of those, said, they are pretty. Interviewer: #1 And, uh, # 370: #2 Who is this we're talking about? # I, I'm talking about this, uh, cow, uh, boy that shot his wife. Interviewer: Oh. 370: He went to town, and saw these girls, and he'd seen a girl before. And, uh, so his daddy thought, well, said, your mother was a girl. And said, if you want one, said, you'd have to go ask her to go home with you. But said, she'll have to marry you. And, said, you just tell her what you can, let her, what you can give her, you know, the farm, and the horses, and cattle, and what all you've got, and said I, I think she'll go with you. And sure enough, she said she'd go, and said, well, you know you gonna have to marry me, and, um, uh, he told her, he said, well what is that? And she said, well, said, we'll, your daddy will know, said, we'll, we'll just go ahead and get married, and then I'll go with you. So his daddy fixed up a place, way up on the farm, away from where they lived, and, uh, thought that would be nice, you know, he could be up there in the winter, and they would, kinda, be alone, and, so, there came a big snow, and the weather was just terrible, so, his daddy didn't get up there until the next year. So, he went up there, and he said, son, how is everything? Said, oh, it's just fine, Daddy, said, uh, well, what about the chickens, and the, uh, uh, cows, and horses, and he told him what all they had, and that they, uh, new calf, and different things, and he said, well, you haven't said a thing about your wife, and I haven't seen her, said, where is she? Says, oh, Dad, said, you know she fell, and I had to shoot her. You know, that's the way they did horses, Interviewer: #1 way back. # 370: #2 Yeah. # He didn't know anything else to do, but just shoot her. So Tom said, I don't know what, he said, I do, said, if you fall, hurt yourself again, I guess I'll just have to shoot you. Interviewer: Well, you better stay on your two feet, 370: #1 then {X}. # Interviewer: #2 Oh, I'm gonna be very careful. # 370: Take my medicine. Interviewer: Oh, me.