Interviewer:  Okay let's see. I was asking you the first two who is always smiling you know and and never loses his temper? would you say that he's mighty what?
505:  I'd say he's um {NS} Well you know what I'd say He has a pleasant attitude.
Interviewer:  Or something like he's mighty good natured or something like that? well what about you know when a boy is growing up maybe a teenager? He seems that he gets uh to a stage where he's just just stumbling over everything you know running into things, falling over, tripping over his own feet, you'd say he's mighty
505:  I'd say he's mighty crazy for one thing {NW} I'd say that {X} I said what's wrong with you I said you Did you lose it {X}
Interviewer:  Okay okay {X}
505:  {X} {D: you want some icing}?
Interviewer:  No that's fine
505:  {NW} I don't know uh Jim gets the cherry one {X} {X} {NW} {NW} {X} {D: you've been working on it a minute} {X} {D: and I see if I} I says okay sometime {X} Until it's the {D: you were right} {X} he ain't gonna be gone before you get there {X} {NW} {D: Do you remember what you said} He said I don't know if I'm being slow but I'm playing ball. She said yes that's where I started playing ball {X} About wanting to go She was just cheating you know. That he was going to be playing basketball And he's gotten good at Uh {D: and I} {X} {D: And he's}- after that I lost my husband he had to be out {X} {D: sitting in because I'm out} {D: every student long time in a class} {D: a kid admitted the whole school} {X} That boy was only thirteen years old but they knew it wouldn't take him {X} {X} And you- you- you just- you tell me what now {D: mom is going to be sick with worry} {D: and she'd be kind of glad} {X} And I ain't his real mother {X} He didn't come for a long time {X}.
Interviewer:  Well what about a- a person like that we were talking about would you say maybe he's he's mighty awkward or clumsy or-
505:  I said he's clumsy.
Interviewer:  Clumsy?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  okay what about a person who has as lot of money but never spends any of it just hangs onto it you say he's just
505:  Stingy.
Interviewer:  Ever heard a person like that called anything else besides stingy?
505:  No I guess not Some people say even if you got things like that usually say what I just said You're just stingy.
Interviewer:  Ever heard them called a tight wad or something like that?
505:  Yes some folks saying he tight and all like that.
Interviewer:  Yes they do When you- did have you ever use the- the word common about a person. You just say he's a common person what do you mean by that?
505:  Well What I would think about it {D: Doesn't think every time} {X} Common I get why you would be Just seem to be the same thing. And some people you can meet today The one you meet today you meet a lot and the other one you just {X} {D: check that person} Because {X} Sometimes you Just like you come here today you were here yesterday You came here today and I act like I don't know you you don't think about me I was I wouldn't know anything about you. So that is common in the person And then to me just uh J- just got a whole attitude to her- towards Themselves and everybody else. That's what I would say.
Interviewer:  Common folk?
505:  Huh?
Interviewer:  Co- common person?
505:  I mean a person I mean you know just what I mean just didn't Every day I got there you got different ways you know
Interviewer:  Yeah
505:  Some days you act like you don't know me Well that ain't a common person {X}
Interviewer:  {X}
505:  And that's the only other person every time you see them trying to Treat you like you want to be treated.
Interviewer:  I see. what about if you knew a an older woman say about eighty-five or so but she still uh got around and did her own work and own cooking and that sort of thing? you'd say that she still Getting kinda old she was she was still mighty
505:  Active And that's just what {X} {D: into the house} and just like a {X} Know what kind of breathing material and everything up until it was {X} And she couldn't see through it neither {D: but she sure kept it out so}. {X} {X} You never heard that? {D: And that's the best even with a big star student} You know {X} and all them people {D: say I'm fixing to call you} They ain't went through {D: the doctor said} {X} And then uh I wanted to tell you once you get old {X} {D: the big star is still getting credit} She helped raise up two of these kids {D: Until she died in a year} You couldn't hold her {X}
Interviewer:  Hmm
505:  Every day After that she and her husband are seventy that's all she gets {X} {D: and lonely break-ups} Mother was old and she used to {D: see out the window} And then now you get {X} So many of those wonderful questions Said everybody {X} I said well I said guess it's a good life lived. {X} what you gonna do when you get to heaven? He said what did you say I'm telling you if you're gone now {X} {NW} {D: and so he said} You won't be able to tell nobody you was a lawyer {X}. {NW} {X} He He came in one day and I {D: I was hitting a} Do some working in his house She had done She had gotten ready to go {X} And uh she called me {X} It's going to be a working day She wasn't able to do all that So I waltzed in there and I sit down {D: and I did work in there} The woman said she wouldn't sit down She wants to be able to see what you're doing. And then You get in and you sit up You're telling me you cook at any time for him He can call my name {X} He said {D: what her name Mary} He said out her name {X} {D: remember} I said yes Miss Mary asked me {X} He said Mary you want to cook another for me and I said no I said as soon as I put this down I'm going to try to get home I said this- this I'm tired He said well wherever you did you're being {X} I'm going to tell you I said yes So I didn't think about any {X} I meant to but I just Working and working long on the farm you have plenty {X} {D: See what} {X} He said no said I know she didn't because she's been working on {X} {X} If she just got the chance but I know she didn't {D: so that got a big advantage to you} That's the one thing for those I don't want to chance it Uh {D: she helps} {X} I said {D: the color white} {D: it's going to be that good} {X} He said uh I wouldn't be a {X} {D: divide} Person actually do something you can't do just try to do you best So yeah I said only thing I ask you if you could do your best That's a lot of people out there {X} He said don't do that {X} I said let me give you a {X} I said {X} but I have to He said {D: thanks} He said I'm trying though before you ask me about a time {NW} Soon as he got that he told the {D: niece that uh} Got a smaller {X} I was about I- I was about nineteen then So you better trust me He said well that should be {X} {NW} You can just get you was different You know you just can't hold it {X} {D: come on and miss} {D: you found out} {X} I ain't paying her for the time just paying her for the {X} {D: you see me do all them things} {D: cheat me} I said {X} He says sounds like just like a {D: nigger} {NW} And something then I went bac- when she was home again {D: considering the household} He asked me to cook him a pie I said I {X} No cook it again cook it on {X} I said your stove cooks too fast. So I don't know how to adjust it just Down there they haven't ever cooked on it that's just I use my stove And then I said whenever you come back I said I don't know just {X} He said well Mary knows {X} And then she I know {X} But she don't like them And she made the pie So I cooked the pie like I was folding this dough because since she {X} {D: He'd come to pick her up he says I'm never going to get you} He said now check this {X} and I said no {X}. You'd notice and you had worked long and every day and bake a lot and baked you some pies I said well the {X} You said tell me {X} I said no I'm not. I said I got a husband I've got to go home. He he's a nice man since My husband died He told me how {X} But I won't do this Share with you his system now He said {X} That you've been mad I said you did it then {D: so how come you're saying} The contract you bought back on the {D: good so you can get it} I said well {D: she made me aware} {X} {D: I'm going to look and start taking that order} He said what did I tell you I said well then I said you're never getting nobody anymore I got my {X} certain for this and I know {X} {D: that's something to say}
Interviewer:  Tell me what are what would you call a person say somebody who left a lot of money lying around in an open view and he left the door unlocked you'd say he's mighty what
505:  He's mighty careless.
Interviewer:  If I say what if you have an aunt named Lizzy and there really wasn't anything wrong with Aunt Lizzy she just acted uh oh I don't know just a little {X} every now and then, you might say about her well there's nothing really wrong with her she just always acts kind of
505:  Dumb {NW}
Interviewer:  Would you ever- would you ever use the word queer? Like Aunt- aunt Lizzy acts kind of queer?
505:  Well yeah We use it.
Interviewer:  {X} Well what about a man who uh who's made up his mind about something whether it's right or wrong and there's nothing in the world that would make him change his mind you'd say he's mighty
505:  I mean I think he's stubborn. {X} because uh You see something wrong and you just move on {D: during the time you're just on} {X}
Interviewer:  Mighty stubborn?
505:  Mm-hmm stubborn like Stubborn man there is about the same I think.
Interviewer:  You ever heard a person called mule-headed or-
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Something like that?
505:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Well what about a person that you just can't joke with him without him losing his temper? You say he's mighty
505:  Touchy? {X}.
Interviewer:  Well what about uh let's say somebody's about to lose his temper and you don't want him to you might tell him well now just keep
505:  Just keep cool. cool.
Interviewer:  Or keep calm or something like that? Well what about if you've been working all day pretty hard you say you're very
505:  Very tired?
Interviewer:  Or if you're very very tired you say you're all
505:  Beat out.
Interviewer:  Beat out okay. Well what about uh if uh you might say that somebody came home from school early uh or well because he
505:  {D: cut school}?
Interviewer:  Okay well let's just say he wasn't feeling well.
505:  Ya. or uh or maybe- maybe uh say you ha- say somebody's at the hospital you might say Yeah
Interviewer:  You might say well he was looking fine yesterday what was it he
505:  {X} And now nobody checks to see if it's still good.
Interviewer:  Or you might say uh let's say you're- you're going somewhere and you're taking it easy you know you're not in a hurry you say oh we'll- we'll get there
505:  We'll get there in plenty of time.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear people say oh we'll get there by and by.
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  {X} Well what about if a person got overheated and chilled at the same time you know and nose started running and his eyes were watering you say he caught a
505:  Cold? A cold?
Interviewer:  and if it affected his voice you know?
505:  His Tonsils
Interviewer:  Uh-huh So he talked he- he might say I'm a little bit
505:  Hoarse
Interviewer:  {NS} Or if I do {NW} that I've got a little
505:  Thing in your throat
Interviewer:  And I had to {NW}
505:  Cough it up
Interviewer:  Okay what about if somebody has trouble hearing you say they're stone
505:  Stone deaf/
Interviewer:  Okay and some people get these places on their skin you know they're oh I don't know they're red places and they- they kind of hurt and you have to mash them like that sometimes and white stuff will come out?
505:  Yeah they call that a ring worm.
Interviewer:  Is that right? is that the same thing as what some people call a boil?
505:  No {X} {NS} He had uh They they you you bursted them up alright {X} {X} But a boil {X}
Interviewer:  {X}
505:  Alright
Interviewer:  {X}
505:  But uh A bunion is jus- just on here bumps sometimes you see it {X} And what- what we said I remember that boil Them things have you so some time you can't hardly walk {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah {X} What about
505:  Rising as well either way Some call them boil some call them some of them rising and say Have you ever saw Person with a {X}?
Interviewer:  What?
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  I'm not sure what you're saying
505:  {D: a bone fellow} That's a thing that you the doctor said come from bruising your finger some kind of way And it comes from that bone and they had to split this Thing and get that collided and scoop this bone.
Interviewer:  Hmm.
505:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Thats pretty painful
505:  No no no want to get that out of my house Out of the house {X} And I just {D: have been fixing things} And I know I know what I did {D: she was hurt} {X} {D: but the doctor he knew} {X} Bone bone scraped that scraped that bone.
Interviewer:  Well what do you call that white stuff that comes out when you mash one of those boils that's the
505:  That's called {X}
Interviewer:  What about you know if somebody got accidentally shot or stabbed in the leg and you have to take him to the doctor so the doctor can treat the
505:  Wound
Interviewer:  And what about if it if it didn't heal cleanly you know you'd have this kind of uh
505:  Stitch it up
Interviewer:  Uh-huh and this this uh kind of white substance would form around it if it got infected?
505:  Yeah
Interviewer:  #1 What kind of what would you call that #
505:  #2 That's # Infection
Interviewer:  Infection or have you ever heard people call that proud flesh know what that is?
505:  You can just take the You can take the tweezers and just And then pick this stuff under it just like Almost like butter some just to Push the middle decayed back
Interviewer:  Yeah
505:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  well what about if you if you got a little cut on your finger if you wanted to keep it from getting infected you o- you might go to your medicine cabinet and put some just a liquid on it you know? what do you call that stuff?
505:  Mm-hmm Iodine. {X}
Interviewer:  Oh yeah
505:  And then you use a band-aid and put on
Interviewer:  Okay and some people when they got malaria would take this stuff that's kind of a bitter white powder you know?
505:  {X} Talking about like quinine
Interviewer:  Uh-huh what about uh say a person who died you might say about him well he's been dead now a week and nobody's yet figured out what he
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay and the place where you- where uh where people are buried you call that the
505:  Cemetery.
Interviewer:  And the box that they're placed in that's the
505:  Coffin.
Interviewer:  And the ceremony for the person that's the
505:  Funeral.
Interviewer:  And the people who are dressed in black you say that they are in
505:  Mourning
Interviewer:  What- what- what would you say uh if somebody meets you on the street and and asks uh uh how you're doing? what might you say to them?
505:  I'm doing fine. how are you?
Interviewer:  Just on an average day you'd say something like that? well what about this is a disease that uh you don't hear about very much but children used to die from it because they'd get sores you know on the inside of their throat and they couldn't s- couldn't breathe
505:  Diphtheria?
Interviewer:  Ya.
505:  You know I heard but uh I never seen {X}
Interviewer:  I g- I guess
505:  Do you know they say that's going around now?
Interviewer:  No
505:  That's {X} Every time the children would get that Uh little children which you know {X} Just come to school They get all their shots and {X} Sure did. It's some {NS} You know Well you're going to talk of a I guess you've seen it on the TV but I They have each of the school children {NS} Uh {X} School With teachers and all You haven't seen that since you've been here?
Interviewer:  I don't think so
505:  I can't think of the name of the place but it's uh {X} But then the point is to capture it in there some of them taking sick meds Then a lot of people just come in and And uh Avalanche that thing and take them away.
Interviewer:  Hmm
505:  But uh they had uh Got them down {X} because it- some of them was sick and the name {D: fell out}.
Interviewer:  Hmm
505:  And I guess they had some nurses sitting there they kind of assume {X} Notice them or something And they didn't {X} And they got to train {D: account of somewhere somewhere to} But people was on it {X}
Interviewer:  If you're talking about diseases have you ever heard of a disease that will make your skin turn yellow?
505:  Yellow- yellow jaundice?
Interviewer:  And what about if you- somebody gets a real bad pain around right about here? you might just be having an attack of
505:  Appendicitis I had it I can tell you about that.
Interviewer:  Okay
505:  That's my operation appendicitis {X}
Interviewer:  Hmm.
505:  I wasn't even married when I started having pains The doctor now said he can't And I wasn't those {X} {D: down with it you know}? I usually Called the doctor using an ice capsule and give you some medicine now get up. And {X} In July. I had to leave my door in {X} To go the hospital {X} And they operated on me the same day I got there. And I'm feeling good with this {X} {D: I know very many} I think they think I settled there too long And used {X} Kind of stuff you {X} {X} You get changed She was in {NS} The hallway {D: She got done that} {NW} He had a glass door he would look in it Just like you look in there and you're looking at an operating table And that's the way he saw me This is going to be {D: my answer} Right there That appendix is going to go And they had to take it out and cut it out.
Interviewer:  Is that right?
505:  {X} {D: they may something in something like that} It's a bad little thing. Peace of mind the thought. {X} And the same day they take it out initially you go in there real sick and before you I don't know how she got in there {X} My family brought her by {X} But uh just getting ready to getting up and go ahead and bust And I saw {X}
Interviewer:  {X}
505:  It is {NS} Embarrassing stuff
Interviewer:  So what about uh if a person ate something that didn't agree with them and it came back up you say you had to do what/
505:  Had to take something for digestion.
Interviewer:  Or if it when it comes up you say he had to
505:  Throw it up?
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard anybody say anything other than he had to throw up or he had to uh
505:  Well sometime if you got that indigestion {X} You can just spit it up
Interviewer:  Spit it up alright vomit or
505:  Mm-hmm Yeah
Interviewer:  Same thing?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  okay, you say somebody who was like that you say he's sick where he's sick
505:  In his stomach.
Interviewer:  Say a- a young boy like you were talking about a few minutes ago goes to see one particular girl pretty regularly
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  You say he's doing what? He's
505:  You mean just like if he's got the one girl Uh Well I guess he's in love with her.
Interviewer:  Getting serious
505:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 about her? #
505:  Serious about her he's in love with her.
Interviewer:  You ever heard people say anything else that would describe that uh you know one boy going with one particular girl who decides uh you know being in love with her or in love with her?
505:  {X} {NS} Sometimes people some say {X} They're getting attached to each other or something like that.
Interviewer:  Or maybe he's courting her or something like that? and he would be her what?
505:  Her friend
Interviewer:  Girlfriend boyfriend. What if he came home one night uh his little- his little brother saw that he had some lipstick on his collar he might say aha
505:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Say you've been
505:  You've been kissing that girl right there.
Interviewer:  Well what if what if he asked her uh to marry him and she doesn't want to you'd say that she did what to him
505:  {D: she disappointed}
Interviewer:  Or maybe she uh what else might you say? she uh
505:  Deceived
Interviewer:  Well she might not necessarily deceive him she just might not be ready yet
505:  Well yeah {X}
Interviewer:  Well that's true but you know it would be deceiving him I guess
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  You might say she turned him down or something like that? A- and when he- what do you call the man who stands up with the groom he's the
505:  Bride?
Interviewer:  The man then
505:  No the woman
Interviewer:  Okay who's the man who stands-
505:  The groom.
Interviewer:  Okay usually there's a man who will stand up next to the groom
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  What?
505:  {X} {X} {D: something for that}
Interviewer:  Alright
505:  Um I know what it is the word {X}
Interviewer:  It's sometimes called the best man or
505:  Yeah the best man {X} But he's called the best man
Interviewer:  What about the other girl who stands up with the bride? she's the what?
505:  {D: groom} No she's the {X}
Interviewer:  Okay or sometimes called the uh bridesmaid or
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  matron of honor or something like that? have you ever heard of uh after a couple gets married uh a group of people might follow them back to the house and just start making all kinds of racket and celebrating and just carrying on like that? ever heard of anything like that?
505:  Mm-hmm Throwing rice {X} They had thrown that rice {X} They're just throwing rice Because they're just celebrating I guess.
Interviewer:  Well what about let's say if uh some people are having a party and they start making too much noise and they start getting rowdy and rambunctious and the police come over and police don't arrest just one of them they arrest the
505:  Whole bunch.
Interviewer:  And sometimes when you have a party the couples might get out on the floor you know and move around you say they had a
505:  Dance
Interviewer:  What about if uh th- the children get out of school at at three o'clock you say that at three o'clock school
505:  Gets out.
Interviewer:  And then towards the end of vacation time you might ask well when does school
505:  Start. {NS}
Interviewer:  Or let's say uh a- a little boy leaves home and is supposed to go to school but he never shows up at school on purpose. you say he did what?
505:  {NW} Little boy {X} {X} Yeah he he he get out {D: you got a man} But I was talking about send him. That's where she {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah
505:  I know {X} I said {X} She said oh man I got tutored And that child is playing hooky from school.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
505:  And what she did {D: she went to school} But you come back She's not going to be able to go to the house to get keys to the place {X} I'm working {X} Always sending me somewhere plain I said she got no business getting on no bus {X} I said it's time to go to school. {X} I said well {X} so I got on the school on the phone call all the school mates They told her what she wanted {X} {X} {D: taught us in elementary since} {X} {D: and then I don't know} {X} Because she needed it {X} {D: she wants to} and she's going to get out {X} {NW} I told her I would talk to her {D: just might be suspended} {X} Why is it that you got on the bus You're going to school And when {X} telling people {X} {X} That's so why didn't you ask me before you went home? You were just thinking I don't know {X} I said {X} You don't want your mind just {D: and keep that mind there} {X} I don't know. I never told her {D: she got the beating I got} I've gotten {X} I gave her a good whipping {X} {D: I'm going to go by to talk to her} I said if this happens again I said that won't be the last whipping. I said now I'm I'm You honestly you just You're just my nephew's child and I said you're staying here and I'm clothing you and feeding you and sending you to school {X} I said I don't want ever this happen no more. I said it's too much to handle {X} Long end and just side I mean go to your age in both {X} And let's say she did I didn't know why she would she just wouldn't And uh She told me and said Told me {X} {X} I said {X} After I tell her not to pay face into things like that {X} {X} I said yeah well now some people will I said well {X} I said yeah they have faith. And God knows {X} {X}
Interviewer:  {NW} Oh
505:  But she {X} And she's sitting there looking like another 7 year old.
Interviewer:  Yeah
505:  {D: I just hope that next evening} {X} You didn't get what happened to me As somebody coming to kill me but I'm looking for you I said what had happened? I don't know. And I got through the way she took me along by this because she's not she really knew
Interviewer:  Yeah {X} Talking about school after high school some people go on to
505:  High school.
Interviewer:  After they get through with high school some go onto
505:  college
Interviewer:  Oh ya okay an-and these things that uh well if you were if you wanted to check out a book uh in town where would you go to get the book? You'd go to a
505:  Book
Interviewer:  Uh-huh
505:  You- you can- you can you can go to the bookstore.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh or if you didn't want to buy one you just wanted to check it out you know
505:  Um you can go to the {X} You can go the bookstore, Drug store. {NS} You find different books over there.
Interviewer:  What about just going to the library?
505:  Yeah they got libraries {X}
Interviewer:  Well what about if if you have to stay overnight in the town you might stay at the
505:  Hotel?
Interviewer:  If you wanted to see a play or a movie you would go to the
505:  To the movies.
Interviewer:  Or the some people call it the
505:  The drive-in theater.
Interviewer:  And if you were uh if you were sick and had to go to the hospital the woman who takes care of you in the hospital she's called the
505:  Nurse.
Interviewer:  And if you wanted to catch a train in town you'd go down to the
505:  Depot.
Interviewer:  Um or the- some people call it the
505:  Station. Don't you go down there {X} {NW} {X}
Interviewer:  Well what about if you wanted to catch a bus where would you go?
505:  I'd go down to the station there on the highway people go on.
Interviewer:  S- you know sometimes uh I think Covington is this way have a place right in the center of the town you know around the courthouse?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  You call that the
505:  Courthouse square?
Interviewer:  Square okay. what about if uh let me see uh If you have uh {NW} two streets that crossed each other like this you know? one going this way and one going that way?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  and if you were standing on this corner right here and you wanted to get over here with a thing going from here to here to here and you get to a {X}?
505:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  what would you say- how would you say you crossed the street?
505:  It seems to {X} And then you go down You go straight A line like it's there for walking.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh
505:  And you go get in between the two lines and go right on across.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm have you ever heard of people who what- you- sometimes you have a traffic light there
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And it tells you when to cross?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And sometimes some people cross against the law? #1 And you're not supposed to #
505:  #2 {X} # will walk when it tell you not to
Interviewer:  Yeah
505:  We don't have a safety light in {X} You know just like if uh You get in that line If a car coming {X} They will let you get by because you It's not like there's space for two more sides {X}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm have you ever heard the expression catty-corner?
505:  Catty-corner? Uh-huh Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  what does that mean?
505:  It's not a {X} place. Kind of lopsided.
Interviewer:  Kind of at an angle?
505:  Mm-hmm. I don't know if you've ever seen any of these or not but in some big cities {NW} Instead of having buses they have these vehicles that ran on rails and there'd be a wire overhead you know? Those are called street cars.
Interviewer:  Street cars ?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  {NW} What about if you were riding on a bus you might tell the bus driver well the next corner is where I want
505:  I want to get off.
Interviewer:  And uh you say that that the police in a town are supposed to maintain what
505:  Traffic.
Interviewer:  Traffic or maybe uh say he's supposed to maintain -tain the law and
505:  Yeah
Interviewer:  Supposed to maintain the uh uh supposed to enforce the
505:  The law.
Interviewer:  Okay I-I wanna ask you a few questions about some some states uh you might not know {NW} you might know it you might not um {NW} would you know what state uh the biggest city in the country's in?
505:  Well- well I think it's in in in the south. I don't know {X} And the biggest city is uh Is it California?
Interviewer:  Mm well I was I think California would probably have more people than anything else I was thinking about New York City you know?
505:  Yes That's what {X} I haven't been there but my cousin lived there they tell me that's some some town.
Interviewer:  Yeah
505:  Yeah
Interviewer:  Do you know have you ever heard of Baltimore?
505:  Yeah
Interviewer:  Do you know what state it's in?
505:  Baltimore Maryland.
Interviewer:  And what about uh well have you ever heard of Richmond?
505:  Richmond Virginia?
Interviewer:  What about uh Raleigh?
505:  Raleigh I don't think I remember that {X} I don't think I remember maybe it wasn't {X}.
Interviewer:  North Carolina? have you ever been there?
505:  No
Interviewer:  Haven't been to either North or South Carolina?
505:  Nope
Interviewer:  Okay what about uh have you heard of what New Orleans would be in what state is New Orleans you know that?
505:  Um Uh yes New Orleans Nebraska?
Interviewer:  No Omaha is in Nebraska
505:  No yeah yeah that's what I mean Omaha is in Nebraska and uh New Orleans is in New Orleans I don't know It's New Orleans isn't it? New Orleans. {X} I said that New Orleans
Interviewer:  It's a southern state
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Louisiana?
505:  Something like that {X} Hometown and then Texas that's about as far as I go from now
Interviewer:  Okay you know where um Louisville is? you heard of Louisville?
505:  Louisville Kentucky? I have a friend there
Interviewer:  Is that right?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What about uh Little Rock?
505:  Little Rock Arkansas
Interviewer:  Okay and Jackson
505:  Jacksonville, Mississippi
Interviewer:  Okay what about uh Dallas?
505:  Texas.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh you knew where Tulsa is?
505:  Tulsa Oklahoma
Interviewer:  Boston is in
505:  Boston uh Texas?
Interviewer:  No
505:  oh no not no uh Boston uh
Interviewer:  It's up on the east coast
505:  Boston is in Massachusetts
Interviewer:  Let's see talking about the capital of Alabama you know Mo- Montgomery
505:  Montgom- Montgomery is in Alabama
Interviewer:  Do you know what a big sea port in Alabama is?
505:  No
Interviewer:  {X}
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay you know where the gulf is down there on the coast of Alabama and northwest Florida do you know which gulf that is?
505:  No I
Interviewer:  Have you heard that called anything?
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  The gulf of Mexico?
505:  Oh I know that you I told you this story yes {NW} Yeah but sometimes {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah what about uh some of the bigger cities here in Tennessee? like uh the big one you know that's right across the state line of Alabama?
505:  Uh Memphis is uh about the {X}
Interviewer:  Okay
505:  And uh
Interviewer:  Somewhere in the east uh uh Chattanooga? you've ever been there before?
505:  No I've never been to that place
Interviewer:  What about Knoxville?
505:  I have not ever been there
Interviewer:  Okay let's see let me ask you just a few uh foreign countries if you were in Paris
505:  Paris Tennessee?
Interviewer:  Well there is a Paris Tennessee
505:  You know I've been but the other Paris I haven't ever been there I've been to Paris Texas
Interviewer:  Ever hear of Paris France?
505:  Yeah
Interviewer:  France
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  Is that right? {X}?
505:  Ya uh he took a vacation by there I don't know why he didn't go. {X}
Interviewer:  Where
505:  {X} {X} sometimes he talks about it pretty good and sometimes he don't.
Interviewer:  Oh yeah
505:  He was taking a vacation why he was over there {X} You take a vacation {X} Cause of the places you know he went
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
505:  But uh I can't call them all now.
Interviewer:  Okay what about when you go to church you go to hear the preacher preach a what?
505:  I go to hear the gospel {X} We may and receive can go there and you hear the hear the word of God preach you know.
Interviewer:  What do you call it when the preacher preaches he preaches his
505:  His text?
Interviewer:  Text yeah I was just think- {NS} thinking that there might be something else that it's called. uh you ever call it a sermon?
505:  Yes
Interviewer:  Sermon something like that
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And usually along with the cere- with the ceremony you'll have the preaching and the choir will
505:  Sing
Interviewer:  And they have real pretty you know pianos playing and everything
505:  Oh yeah
Interviewer:  Music
505:  Music with the piano
Interviewer:  Well what about if you were looking at a at a sunset that was really attractive you'd say that sunset's just
505:  Beautiful.
Interviewer:  What is supposed to be uh the enemy or the opposite of God that's the?
505:  The enemy.
Interviewer:  The very opposite of God is supposed to be what?
505:  The devil?
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard the devil called anything else?
505:  Satan?
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard of people say s- uh talking about something called the boogeyman?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Now what is that supposed to be?
505:  Ya that's supposed to be the devil.
Interviewer:  Is that supposed to be the devil?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What about uh a house that people think uh they won't go in it you know because maybe somebody died there it's supposed to be real
505:  Yeah we call it {X}
Interviewer:  A what?
505:  We call it a {D: gloomy}
Interviewer:  Really?
505:  Uh-huh {X}
Interviewer:  What ghost?
505:  Yeah Well now I've just {X} neither in the way because I {X} My mother and daddy {X} Uh we don't know I ain't ever seen nothing but I'll tell you one thing I did see. I ain't never been able to make it out And I wonder about it sometimes {X} School I was going home at the end And uh moving forward this cross {X} {D: mystery thirteen} {X} That thing was about big {X} Somewhere about ten eleven years old The building was had been made and {X} And I still was out {X} {X} Put him inside {X} {D: sitting here drawing his cap} I got a guy's cap and put it in the inside and I was in there as soon as I put it out {X} And Paul said wake up here He he he thought that there was probably {X} {X} Paul thought it was a dog And it was a {X} going in behind us {X} And we a {X} {D: bridging} {X} Because no one had {X} {D: and to withdraw the bridge} Lay- lay across the bridge that's in front of us Well we hit the bridge {X} His name was James but we called him Jim instead So we got back on the hunt And just by the time {X} You know this is a deep detail {X}
Interviewer:  Hmm
505:  That thing I wouldn't tell you the story that thing was {X} About that long just stretched out And then it looked like it had nine feet on the ground {X} Man I got so scared I thought {NW} I got down into {X} {NS} And when {X} Nobody's trying to catch {X} And we was going to run about {X} When he got one of the things {X} She wasn't supposed to hold Hold on here {X} But he couldn't hold that hose {X} Just trying to shoot a {X} When we got home {X}
Interviewer:  Hmm
505:  And he snapped {X} fits on there {X} But when we got home She just ran with it and {X} I had to run in the house even there Wanted to see more {X} And that's the only thing I ever seen that's {X} And I don't know about here
Interviewer:  {X}
505:  Now what- no no no we don't know what it was But basically {X} And that voice {X} We're having to {X} And went around {X} That's what was {X} And probably didn't say a word until we got to that house {X} {X} {X} {NW}
Interviewer:  Well tell me uh if you {NW} if you saw a friend of yours {NS} That you hadn't seen in a long time? what what what would you say to him you know just in the way of greeting him
505:  Well I'm glad to see you
Interviewer:  What about oh let's say if uh you woke up one morning in the winter and it wasn't just a little cold it was
505:  {X} {NW} {X} Had to be the coldest one I've had since I've been here We had some a little less but {D: miss snow}
Interviewer:  Does it get real cold?
505:  Why don't you tell me cold {X} We have the cold {X} That's the coldest winter since {X} I've been there since 1917 But I know it was cold Now I've seen some cold days but that sure was a cold year How was it in your hometown?
Interviewer:  It- it got pretty cold it was not really that bad doesn't get too bad down
505:  In Omaha Nebraska? You must be near {X}
Interviewer:  We're southeast
505:  In the southeast? Uh in Omaha Nebraska though All those things you would need what his sons {X} You got to transfer up from Omaha {X} And he's going to stay with his family {X} He come in wearing one morning hey I said how are you doing I said pretty good how are y'all {X} {X} I said what? {X} {X} I said well it isn't {X} But it's dreary cold And then I asked the stuff that's in the ground trees and things {X} When it's really cold here {X} Oo since I've been married I've been just as cold since I've been married I know I've been {X} Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Well now tell me when uh when a friend says good morning to you what might you ask him you know in return? you said good morning you'd say
505:  And how are you feeling?
Interviewer:  Would you say the same thing to a stranger somebody you didn't know? he's
505:  Say good morning I say good morning
Interviewer:  Well what about if uh if somebody's leaving after a visit? you might tell them well why don't you come
505:  Why don't you come back again? I enjoyed it {X}
Interviewer:  Well what about if uh somebody has done a favor for you, you might say well I'm much
505:  I was uh I'm much obliged I appreciate what you do for me.
Interviewer:  What about if uh if you're not sure whether you'll have time to do something or not you might say well I
505:  I have to fit it all
Interviewer:  {X} And let's say you might have to go downtown you have to get something or you say if I just stay there a while and do some
505:  Work
Interviewer:  Or you go around different stores you say you're
505:  Going out shopping.
Interviewer:  If you find something in a store the storekeeper might take some paper and
505:  Wrap it up
Interviewer:  And when you get home you'll have to take it and
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay w-what would you say a if a store is selling things at uh less than what they paid for you'd say they're selling them at a
505:  I'd say they must be {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  They'd be selling at a loss
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Oh let's say if you see a a real pretty coat that you like let's say well I sure would like to buy that but it just
505:  Too high
Interviewer:  What do you say when it's time to pay the bill you say the bill is
505:  Due
Interviewer:  And if you go out to a club some clubs require that you pay
505:  The dues
Interviewer:  And if you wanted to buy a car and you didn't have enough money? you might go see your banker and see about see if you could
505:  Borrow?
Interviewer:  You probably heard the expression that that that good workers are getting mighty
505:  {X} {NW} {X}
Interviewer:  Mighty thin or mighty scarce or what not? have you ever seen uh some boys around the creek or water or something like that uh go jump off a board and you say that they're
505:  springing board
Interviewer:  and what do you what do you call them doing they go in the water like that?
505:  Diving.
Interviewer:  Diving and when do they you ever see one dive in and just land flat on his stomach just throw up water everywhere/
505:  Yes I have {X} In the swimming pool.
Interviewer:  What do you is there anything that you call that when they do that?
505:  I don't know what they call that though
Interviewer:  You ever heard it called a belly buster or
505:  {NS} But they would get off that board {X} {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah
505:  Do you know I see 'em down here {X} I don't want to {X} You know I see them kids getting on that {X} Down {X}
Interviewer:  Do a pretty good job
505:  Yeah Couldn't be like you know talking out there on that ground there {NS} {X} {X}
Interviewer:  What about you s- probably seen children playing out in the yard and they might uh one boy might tuck his head you know down between his legs and push out his feet and go over like that? you'd say he did a what?
505:  Did a flip {X}
Interviewer:  Is there anything else you've heard that called?
505:  I guess not no
Interviewer:  Have you- have you ever heard of people say the term somersault?
505:  Yeah Somersault {NS} I heard them say somerset call them somerset {X}
Interviewer:  Some- Have you ever heard of a when you if a person goes down to the store to pay off his bill or something like that the storekeeper might give him a little present or a little gift?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  and you call that a what?
505:  Souvenir.
Interviewer:  A what?
505:  Souvenir.
Interviewer:  Oh yeah okay what would you- what do you say a baby does before it's able to walk? It just
505:  Crawl
Interviewer:  And let's say if a boy saw something that he wanted it was up a tree, he'd have to do what to get it?
505:  Climb
Interviewer:  Well what about if a- if a little boy was trying to scare you you know, he'd get behind the couch and he'd have to do what so you wouldn't see him?
505:  He would squat down {X} Trying to scare me.
Interviewer:  And then when he'd- and then he'd jump up real quick and he'd probably say something
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What would he probably say
505:  Boo!
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard uh {D: any of them heard} somebody say peep-eye?
505:  Uh-huh
Interviewer:  What does that mean? When when do you say that?
505:  You know when children get behind you and {X} peep eye. They play like that sometimes {X} And then get behind {X}
Interviewer:  Well what about sometimes when uh right before a a child goes to bed he might say his prayers and before he gets into bed he was-
505:  Kneeling down
Interviewer:  Or if let's say if you're feeling tired you might say well I think I'll go to bed and
505:  Say my prayers
Interviewer:  Sometimes when you're sleeping you uh you know you see things in your sleep you say you're having a
505:  Dream
Interviewer:  {NS}
505:  And another thing {X} You know sometimes when you dream things and uh you didn't know what it is And it won't be long {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah that is kind of funny.
505:  Yeah I I I I that that happens {X} {X} I may not know what it is But I said that's {X}
Interviewer:  Oh yeah
505:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  talking about sleeping and you might say well I was dreaming about something but all of a sudden I
505:  Fell asleep
Interviewer:  Or what if you were dreaming you're probably already asleep
505:  Oh you mean if I was dreaming which means
Interviewer:  Yeah
505:  Oh yeah I was dreaming about something and I just wake up and it's It's gone
Interviewer:  What about if a if a boy m-met a girl at a party or something and he wanted to see her home he might ask well may I
505:  May I escort you home?
Interviewer:  Or let's say if if you've got your car stuck out in the mud there in the road you might ask somebody to take a rope and
505:  Move it out
Interviewer:  What about if if you had a bunch of children around the house and they got in the kitchen while you were cooking something? and you had something on the stove you might say now that stove is hot so
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  Or in other words don't you
505:  get close to it?
Interviewer:  Or don't touch it? what about in in some children's games what do you call maybe you might be playing chase or tag or something like that? You know the place that they could run to where they'd be safe? is there anything you'd call that?
505:  What you mean if you're playing something like uh tic tac toe?
Interviewer:  No just a game you usually play it outdoors in the yard and uh tag or something like that. And you if you run to a certain place you're safe and he can't get you?
505:  Uh-huh They call something like a base
Interviewer:  A base?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  {NW} Well what about let's say if uh two people go meet each other in town one might say to other well if I get there first I'll
505:  I've been waiting first
Interviewer:  Or what about if uh if let's say your husband had a had a man who worked for him who was just not doing his job your husband might say well I think I'm just going to have to get
505:  Gone with him. Get rid of him.
Interviewer:  And then the man might come back after you got rid of him and he might ask oh then well oh why don't you give me
505:  Another chance.
Interviewer:  And what about a man who has a smile on his face and just a pleasant word you know for everybody you'd say that well he seems to be in a mighty good
505:  Mighty good mood
Interviewer:  Mighty good mood? you ever know a person who who really didn't know what was going on but he he's sort of uh
505:  Suspicious?
Interviewer:  Well he's really a person who doesn't know much he just gives you tries to give you the impression you know that he does
505:  Yeah
Interviewer:  What do you what do you say or what do you call a person like that he he just
505:  Pretending that he don't know.
Interviewer:  What about if a boy left his desk pen out on his desk and when he got back it was gone? you might say well I'll bet somebody
505:  Stole my pen
Interviewer:  What about if you want to get in touch with somebody you might go to telephone you might sit down and do what?
505:  Write him a letter.
Interviewer:  And after you get through writing the letter you take the envelope and you
505:  Mail it
Interviewer:  Did what?
505:  Address it
Interviewer:  Okay and you might say well I'd like to write him but I don't know his
505:  Number Or his address
Interviewer:  Or what about uh these little these things that a child likes to play with? you'd say that child sure has a lot of
505:  Toys
Interviewer:  You ever heard toys called anything else
505:  {X} {D: some word for it] {X} things like that
Interviewer:  You ever heard them called play pretties
505:  Yeah {X}
Interviewer:  Okay Um what about these things that uh people grow them in pots you know they're real pretty pick 'em and put them in your house you know in vases. you might
505:  Flowers {NS}
Interviewer:  What about if you let's say you gave your husband a watch and he just unwrapped it he was looking at it and he just kept looking at it you might say well why don't you go ahead and
505:  {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  What about talking about maybe riding horses you might say uh well I got thrown once and I've been scared of horses ever
505:  Since
Interviewer:  {NS}
505:  I got thrown more than once {X}
Interviewer:  {NW} Just the opposite
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  What about you might say well that wasn't an accident he did that
505:  On purpose
Interviewer:  What about uh I might take a knife and fool around with it and accidentally
505:  Cut yourself
Interviewer:  Is there anything that you might say besides
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay Or let's say a teacher might come into the room and got all these funny pictures on the blackboard she might turn around to the class and say well now who
505:  Was drawing pictures
Interviewer:  Or what about if you if your husband had a real heavy weight that he had to lift up he might get himself a a block and a tackle and call himself doing what to get that up
505:  He'd be a giant he'd would be uh elevating it up On the back block {X} {X} Mm-hmm {X}
Interviewer:  Is that right?
505:  Someone {X} {X} Somebody who Don't worry about nobody else
Interviewer:  Force was up there
505:  Yeah Yeah he does not {X}
Interviewer:  If you saw somebody in the daytime say about 10 o'clock what would you say to them just to greet them
505:  How do you do
Interviewer:  Or what's the latest in the day you can say good morning
505:  {D: Mid summer day} {X} Twelve o'clock that's the last time of the morning
Interviewer:  And the time of the day after morning is the
505:  Good evening
Interviewer:  Good evening are evening and afternoon the same thing when you're leaving somebody what do you say to them
505:  Why I'd be doing a goodbye
Interviewer:  Do you ever say good day
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What about uh when you're leaving somebody at night you say
505:  Good night?
Interviewer:  Maybe on the farm if you get up to work before daylight you say that you started work before
505:  {X} Before the day.
Interviewer:  Before day or before
505:  Dawn
Interviewer:  Maybe before sun up
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Something like that?
505:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  what about if you might be a little late to start work one morning uh because when you started work the sun had already
505:  It had already {X}?
Interviewer:  And if you worked until the sun went out of sight you say that you worked until
505:  Sun down
Interviewer:  Sun down? okay what about if somebody came to see you on a Sunday last Sunday you say that he came
505:  {X} Sunday?
Interviewer:  If it is the week before
505:  Sunday {X}
Interviewer:  And if there's somebody willing to come and see you on a Sunday after this one he's come to see you when
505:  Sunday week
Interviewer:  Sunday week? Okay well what about if somebody came to see you and stayed for about the first of the month through the fifteenth you say he stayed about
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  The people have you ever heard the expression he stayed about a fortnight?
505:  Hmm?
Interviewer:  A fortnight?
505:  Fort night?
Interviewer:  Fortnight {NS} Haven't heard that?
505:  No {X}
Interviewer:  Okay Let's say today is today is Thursday
505:  You said stayed a fortnight
Interviewer:  Fortnight fortnight
505:  You mean just like he stayed four nights
Interviewer:  Uh-uh F O R T N I G H T fortnight
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Some people use that to mean about two weeks
505:  Uh-huh {X} Some people haven't heard of
Interviewer:  Oh. What about well let's say uh today's Thursday and so Friday will be
505:  {X} {X}
Interviewer:  Well if Thursday is today Wednesday was
505:  Sunday {X} {X}
Interviewer:  Okay but not talking about days just like alright if you've got today that's Thursday Wednesday was
505:  The day before yesterday
Interviewer:  Okay and so Friday will be or talking about Saturday that's the day after
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  Saturday night or the day after tomorrow
505:  Mm-hmm ya tomorrow {NS}
Interviewer:  What if you- if wanted to know the time of day you'd just ask somebody
505:  What time is it?
Interviewer:  And he'd say well just let me look at my
505:  Watch
Interviewer:  What would you call the time if it was midway between seven o'clock and eight o'clock you'd say it was
505:  Half past seven
Interviewer:  What about if it was fifteen minutes later than half past ten?
505:  {X} Eleven ?
Interviewer:  Okay what i- what if you've been uh doing something for a long time you might say well I've been doing that for quite now and let's say in 1976 was uh if 1976 was last year {X}-