505
{D: Um I didn't know that}
{D: know that they would be at}
{D: our house.}
{D: And I told George that}
I'd fix the
{X}
{NS}
{D: take the}
{NS}
{D: I baked a cake} {C: rooster crowing}
{D: yesterday.}
{X}
{D: I'd take it in the freezer.}
{NS}
{D: That would be uh.}
{NS}
{X}
And that's if it
if it- if it- it's too tight this year
I've picked up weight.
And if it {C: rooster crowing}
{D: get on} {C: rooster crowing}
looser then I've lost weight. {C: rooster crowing}
Mm-hmm.
Why don't you go there and bring me that
{D: piece}
{D: of that?}
Mm-hmm.
{X}
down-
Yeah.
They
{D: bridge}
out just like sack of
{D: cotton.}
{NW}
Mm-hmm.
{D: Yeah some of them}
some of the folks say shrink and some say draw up.
{D: It's}-
Yeah.
{NS}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
{NS}
{NW} {C: rooster crowing}
She's
{D: at}
{D: she's at uh}
making up her face.
Mm-hmm.
Oh are you
{X}
Yeah he's primping too.
Yeah.
{NW}
Handbag.
Mm-hmm.
a
purse.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Change and
coin purse.
{X}
{X}
Bracelet.
necklace.
Suspenders.
Some call them galluses.
{NW}
Yeah. {C: rooster crowing}
Umbrella.
Uh no,
bed spread.
{D: Blanket}
and quilts?
Mm-hmm.
Some don't have quilts they call 'em comforter but
{D: the- they- they're}
mostly
{D: like that.}
{D: I makes}
my own,
they're quilts.
And like if you buy them at the store
they already.
{X} {C: noise}
Pillow.
Yeah shams.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
(X)
My grandmother used to
{D: say that.}
{X}
put a
{X}
You put a
{X}
you know used to be uh
{D: the whole bed.}
{D: Old type}.
Used to be
{D: with}
{X}
at the head and them
them pillows be standing up
by the
{X}
up there.
{X}
Pillow sham.
No.
Uh they had.
long thing that go across your bed. I got one
{D: on my own}
bed now
{X}.
{D: It's the solid}
{D: cross it}
just like your pillows. Now I got pillows on that bed but it's most of them.
{X}
{D: He's}
just a long thing
with feathers in it
{D: uh}
uh
{X}
whatever you have in there.
And then you make
a long
{X}
to go
{X}
for the cover just like you would a pillow case.
Mm-hmm.
Mines go all the way the across
the
{D: All these new beds}
now they
{D: got them to go}
just about a
a third across the bed and then it
just like
{D: they come by along in here and then they}
{NS}
spread a corner
{D: when take that}
{D: that's where they make them knot.}
mattress
on the floor?
Mm-hmm.
Yes it is
{X}
you can
put your quilt down on the floor and then put your
{D: stuff}
on there that make it kind of soft if you don't have a mattress
{X}
floor.
Mm.
Mm-hmm.
I have just taking the quilt
{D: once it's hot}
when I was a kid
and fold it together and got on the floor and make that's what you call a palate
{D: come up with stuff}
keeping cool
{D: the bed}
was hot.
Uh-huh.
{D: And yeah.}
And uh we had a place in
{X}
we lived up there when I first.
{X}
You couldn't grow nothing in that place
{D: as big it is as my yard} {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
it wouldn't grow.
{D: And we had}
if you planted on it it would die.
And so uh
finally
a man come through there. I don't know
what
{D: nationality what he was}{C: rooster crowing}
but he told {C: rooster crowing}
mine
father when I was
{X}
do you
{X}
why you can't raise nothing there?
He said well they're telling me it's a deadly
{D: a deadly}
{D: place where the}
{D: deer}
used to p- uh
{X}
put soil down for
{D: deers.}
He said yes
{D: and then sold it.}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
And then finally he just
{D: kept turning that plow now}
I- I think you can
{D: raise stuff}
{D: on there that share now.}
{D: You used to couldn't raise nothing and now everything} {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
it would die.
And so I guess by cultivating that,
and the soil washing back there you know
{D: what his deal is?}
Hmm.
{X}
{D: That boy hey it was in the woods and} {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
I got something
{D: to show you then in the fields}
said what?
{D: He said come on. Say someday}
{D: in there}
there no grass. Nothing growing.
I said what wrong with it? The lightning done struck or something? He said naw.
{X}
But you should be out planting this {C: rooster crowing}
{D: crops} {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
{D: Come up there but it'd die}.
And finally he got so
{D: distressed}
and then he couldn't tell where that place at.
And so they call that a
{D: deer deer lick}
place where they used to put
salt out for
deer.
And we was there one day and then the man he came by,
we was chopping he said uh
how many years have you been here?
So my dad
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
He said it's a place up here
he turn around and look he said
{D: ain't welcome here.}
I
{D: believe he'd know it.}
He said uh {C: rooster crowing}
there's a good {C: rooster crowing}
{D: bit of money}
there.
So uh my daddy said to him says uh
has you ever been through here before?
He said I guess I have.
He said uh
some of them done try to get it but they ain't ever got it. So- but here's the good
{D: news}
{D: there's a good bit of money}
{D: there said that.}
{D: We ever get uh}
if we ever be able to get it,
{D: then we don't have to} {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
long time. {C: rooster crowing}
And so
{X}
and so finally
{X}
told him
that his
grandpa passed or something,
{D: he's up there but}
{X}
on some place you know over that high hill
up there.
{D: Up there where it.} {C: rooster crowing}
{D: What?}
{D: Well what did he do?}
{NW}
{X}
{NW}
{NS}
{D: We have those.}
Canal.
Door knob.
Mountains.
{D: Cliff.} {C: noise}
{D: Cliff.} {C: noise}
When the boys stay here with me you said they was uh
{D: fifteen}
{hundred feet}
and uh
{D: he had to uh}
{X}
and then
airplane
said
{X}
{D: putting on bricks?}
Say he thought that
{D: bridge was done}.
{D: And he had them filled five hundred feet}.
Barge?
Some call it loading dock.
{D: I don't know no neither.} {C: rooster crowing}
I- I heard
{D: talking about how}
Mm-hmm.
{D: I heard talking about it but I haven't seen it}
but
{D: in that that}
in the books uh.
{X}
Mm-hmm.
{D: Gravel}
and
and asphalt.
{NS} {C: rooster crowing}
{X}
Yo-
You know where he's
{D: going}?
He fights that other rooster
{D: long time now}
{D: beats his head.}
{X}
{D: He fights that other rooster so bad}
{D: How come I have to get rid of him?}
{X}
{D: You used.}
Mm-hmm.
{D: Straight}.
{NW}
My n-
my niece come here and just
{D: wanders in the house and}
drinking cup after cup
not a bit of sugar in it.
Every morning.
{X}
{X}
{NW}
{D: That means nothing}.
{NW}
{X}.
To me.
{D: Towards you.}
Ran up on them?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
Come back here!
{D: Uh uh}
{D: she got a little uh}
{D: I call it a little Chihuahua}
{X}
{D: know nothing in the world can beat that thing.}
{X}
You know
{D: that poor little thing}
you know long hair.
{D: And you talking about that}
{D: she got some of the prettiest puppies she got two}.
She said her
{D: husband.}
{X}
{D: And uh}
I um
sometime I goes over there
{D: often and}
{D: she just}
right behind me
{X}
I said
{X}
thing about you.
And she
{D: there's a black}
puppy and she have a
{D: brown they're pretty}
and they ran out with her.
{X}
{D: And the little old feist}
{D: keep her going but I don't think she can}
{X}
over that.
{NW}
{X}
{D: German}
German Shepherds is bad.
{X}
those.
{X}
Uh-huh. Miss
{B}
dog.
{D: He was going from school to teach us.}
{X}
She had uh
Miss
{B}
had a package
{X}
she told
me and another girl to go down so
we know the dog went back
{D: to the black door}.
It kinda
{D: shaggy and}
so
I was scared of the dog.
I got
{X}
{D: and I said now}
Miss
{B}
{D: come on in here}.
So we went on in
{D: and the girl jump- now if she ain't of run}
I don't think the dog would've
{X}.
She jumped up on that step,
he,
{D: broke into me.}
And man I
{D: set down on him}
with that stick.
I broke it.
{NW}
{D: I sit down}
{D: on me}.
She got mad with me cause
{D: I hit the dog.}
But he would've gotten me if I hadn't
{D: hit him}-
{X}
Yeah.
And he didn't get a chance to bite me cause when I- when I
{D: said I don't wanna}
I don't want
{X}.
And she said did you hurt him, and I said I don't know Miss
{B}
{D: I said}
but he broke in.
{X}
Kill him if he bites you.
She got mad but he didn't he said don't let him bite you.
And when we got ready to go I said I ain't going out there
{X}
go with me so she went with us to the gate.
And we got outside the fence, and when we got outside of the fence he was
{D: still mad at me.}
{X}
{NW}
{D: So you can imagine why.}
{X}
{NW}
{X}
{X}
{NW}
Uh-uh.
{NW}
{NW}
Uh-huh that d- that dog was rough and he
he's about this tall.
But um,
I-
I had that stick. That stick was a good fighting stick.
{X}
{X}
But I told myself
{X}
but I had a.
{X}
Cause uh
{NS}
{D: we hardly at a gate}
and he's.
{NW}
She said come over here
{D: here boy.}
She on the porch
{X}.
But as they
{X}
jumping on in front of me I
{X}
he was- he
{X}
but when he come out
{D: from that house}
I didn't do nothing but
{D: do this here}.
I did that so quickly
{X}
{D: I shot that dog that dog shot back and I.}
{X}
And she didn't look like she'd like it and I didn't care if she didn't I want him to.
{X}
I don't want that dog to bit me.
{D: Have her a calf.}
{X}
{NW}
{NW}
{X}
{X}
{NW} {C: rooster crowing}
Mm-hmm.
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
We haven't had
{X}
{D: neighbors they}
{X}
{X}
{D: Did they every day. I don't know why}
{X}
number nine.
{D: We had sheeps all}
right in front of my house
{D: and he would just uh}
{X}
{X}
{D: And we didn't now}
I never,
been around while
{X}.
The ram and then
I did too but I don't think I remember.
{D: Yeah I don't know}.
{D: I do believe it is ewe}
I think it's ewe.
{D: For their wool}.
For their wool.
{X}
Mm-hmm.
{X}
That's the
{D: it's only about eleven thirty.}
{D: He's coming late today.}
{D: Mail carrier just done it}.
He was at church one Sunday and he had
{D: one}
that
{D: tore his pen down}
while he had a
{X}
and he can come by the church and kill us all.
{X}
{X}.
She'd low.
Nicker.
{X}.
{X}
{X}
{D: Wouldn't that be a}
wing?
Uh drums- uh oh the breasts?
Uh-huh.
{X}
{NW}
{NW}
Too much meat.
{X}
{X}
{X}
People don't like chitterlings.
{X}
Or feeding
time.
Soo soo soo.
Mm-hmm
{D: I can tell her come on in.}
{X}
{NW}
She come
{D: trotting}.
Come on
{X}.
She come.
{NW}
{NW}
{D: They call her Sue}.
Come on
{D: Sue}!
{D: Then I tell her}
get in that
{D: lot}.
{X}
Get in that
{D: lot}.
Sometime she come back like I'm gonna give her that switch.
{X}
Or you tell him.
{X}
{X}.
{X}
{NW}
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
{X}
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
None.
Until she got fourteen
{D: and that boy what I just showed you in that picture}
now I raised him from a
{D: baby he's born in the house}
and I raised him all the way until he.
{X}
And then I raised another boy
{D: and he came out as a}
{D: dead daddy}
{D: he didn't know},
I learned how to.
{X}
Now he's in uh
{X}?
{X}
{D: tell you where my Sammy is}.
He got his own business,
shop,
nice home.
He comes to see me.
{D: Sew me clothes}.
{D: I don't buy no clothes}.
{X}.
I said that,
I said you know I never have the money
{X}.
{D: I looked uh I told you}
{D: if I were to buy anything when I went to you}
Come live with me
{D: you've been having to work}.
But you know
{X}
{D: I tell you we were}
{X}
{D: I remember you}
{X}
I said
{X}
I said I don't want no more.
{X}
You know how to do that
{X}
but you know sometime I don't want you cooking.
Now when he come home
he came here
little before Christmas and
{X}
I
{D: sent you the right coat}.
{X}
{X}
{X}
Said I forgot that coat.
{NW}
I
{D: said}
let me
{X}
I said boy they were so warm.
{D: He say}
{D: what you talking}
{X}.
{D: I'm gonna send you}
{X}.
They come closer and closer
{X}.
The kids
{D: is gonna miss}
{X}
{D: uh-huh they'll buy no clothing.}
And I got three
{X}.
And I say
{D: to him}
you should just
some people just.
{X}
And then
{X}
think I'm going somewhere
{X}
I got to think of
{D: thing of two three pair of shoes in there.}
{X}
{D: Had so many brother}
{X}
you ain't going nowhere but
{X}
{D: this church and that church}.
And I got- I was getting ready to go to
{X}
{D: walking from there back to}
{X}
and that's when these
{X}
the boy
{X}.
I hadn't bought anything but my
{X},
and I was getting ready to get
{X}.
{D: Now you got}
{D: stock like that. You know above that}
{X}
to Vicksburg
{X}.
And that's where my husband grew sick.
{D: I make}
{X}.
{D: But I thought}
I don't like- I don't like
{D: to travel}.
Mm.
He is spoiled.
He just really
{D: need- just really}
{X}.
{D: but here's what I'm going to tell you.}
{D: And I'm telling you}
{D: if you find a little boy}
Parents brought him up
{X}
thought that he was better than other kids.
And I said when he come up that's when I say he shouldn't talk too much.
I said
{D: he will never be}
{X}.
I shouldn't given him everything he want
while he little.
And let him have his way.
I said when he get grown I said he won't.
{X}
{D: You know when that kid come up and}
{X}
he said
{X}
that he would want
{D: to share}
with other kids
{X}-
He- I tell you what he- they was a-
{D: that he was adopted child}.
They won't.
{X}
But I just
{D: I had said he'd never be no good}
but I sure made a bad mistake.
{D: I should've not said we can make mistakes}
{X}.
My boy got up and got grown.
He said I
{D: only had everything that a kid}
could have to play with.
And had
all kind of toys and
any kind of food that I thought I wanted to eat.
{X}
He said now
there's
{X}-
there's a heap of kids out there
ain't got
{D: changing clothes}.
You know you have to think of these things
{D: in mind.}
She say- he said
{D: now I don't have everything that I think a kid need}.
He said nuh-uh,
I wanna
{X}.
Said but I- if I have some kids I'm not gonna bring them up like a
{D: grown up}.
I'm gonna let them know to
{X},
and they be tired of what
{X}
getting to know how to take care.
I said well I didn't think you gonna ever have
{D: assist}
enough to do nothing.
{X}
{D: Being a man}.
I said but I have to tell you I'm proud of you.
He grab and hug me kiss me and he said
{D: you ain't nothing but my mama}
{X}
I says uh yeah. I said I'm proud of it. I said
I said way Miss
{X}
brought you up and give you everything
{X}
and everything. I say when you mad
{X}
{D: gonna get you and have a hard time}.
I said but
{D: honest to me}
I'll tell you to your face
{D: I lied.}
He said
don't say that. I said yeah.
I said when you don't tell the truth you lie.
I said now you
{D: done marry},
you got a family,
I said you got the sweetest wife
{D: and I saying you so}
{X}.
{NW}
He said you silly thing you.
Yeah and he- he grew up and
he
had a nice home.
He had a nice wife too,
{D: I'll be giving it to him}.
She did- and he
{D: brought her}
just what he thought
that she needed and his home was just as
nice as anything
{X}
{D: a man's house.}
{X}
And then he went there
{X}
about it.
{D: He would set a}
place on the table
{X}
just a little dish
{X}
that table was full.
Now you can.
{X}
He said now
{D: that why- that's one thing done.}
{X}
E- everytime I sit down to the table
{D: I could eat what I want}.
He said
{X}
put everything on y'all's table that you could eat,
and that you didn't need to eat
{D: and so today you're stepping like a fool}
working hard, trying to keep that same.
{X}
I said well you right.
{D: Did I make}
you want to have something
{D: but your parents bring you up}
decent
and have a
{X}
you trying to have.
{X}
Do you think that's right?
Huh?
{D: They have a plenty of food},
I don't mean no
expensive food I mean
{D: common}
food.
Now me and my daddy ate no expensive food.
{D: like some folks.}
But he- he'd give us all
{X}
food but we
{D: had plenty left.}
So I think.
{X}
{D: Heap of people who are grown and got}
{X}.
{D: I ain't know what's my back but in my stomach.}
{X}
{X}
I want at least a
nice clean home to live in, but I ain't never
I ain't never had
{D: nothing to work all my life because I}
I want.
{X}
That's right.
{D: A waterfall.}
{D: Mm-hmm.}
And what about if you had some land that you want- you wanted to get the bushes and the trees off of it?
You'd say you need to do what to it?
Well you need to go clear that up.
Now sometime if it's not
{X}
{X}
{D: That}
when I first saw
{X}
so much of
{X}
{D: was in woods.}
And we have.
{X}
Mm-hmm.
{D: New ground}.
Mm-hmm.
Well that's
the second crop.
Mm-hmm.
Just like if you
{X},
and my brother got some
{X}
{D: down here.}
{D: Now if he had uh}
{D: if that hadn't been earlier then he couldn't}
{D: get it come back out and he}
{X}
second crop.
Uh-huh.
Mm-hmm
that's the-
Well I never seen it
{X}-
I seen them t-
I seen them tie oats up that way
{D: for stock.}
But wheat
{X}
thresh it
and they.
{X}
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Yeah you could take that uh
{D: after you}
combine that
{D: wheat}
that uh, that wheat often uh-
{D: off the stalk.}
You can take that
{D: wheat store}
and put it in shocks.
But most people now,
they used to bale it up but most people now take
{D: it uh}
take that uh, wheat
{D: straw and bundle it up}.
Now most
{D: of you be around if you would}
{D: round}
and then cut that wheat
{D: where you see.}
{X}
{D: They bundle}
{D: wheat straw.}
Now
{X}
because
just like if you got
uh
{D: some uh}
race horse track
uh you keep
{D: you have}
race horses.
{D: Are there broken horses?}
You can use that in that stable
{D; for you know},
{D: on a path}
they use it
{D: but then}
{D: they don't use it}
but they use it for other
{D: pens to keep them horses}
{X},
just like they have
{D: means}
to clean it out. They put so much of that in and
{D: they never come out and have them use straw.}
{X}
Now the
{X}
{X}
going in to
{X}
{X}
{D: Jackson}.
He got a-
he got a
race track
{D: up there by the}
{X}
{D: walking}
horses.
Now I haven't had a chance to go out
and
{D: visit it.}
Tried twice.
And that's the
{D: prettiest thing.}
{X}
They gotta
{D: race}
some of them horses.
{X}
{D: Now they come up}
{X}
{D: and we gotta go pick 'em up}.
{D: And then is this}
just like you
{D: stepping}.
{D: And}
{D: and after they get trained}
you just wanna see them race.
Yeah that's
{X},
{D: but they ain't it}.
And they get trained now. They ain't got them
{D: weights on their back to break them. You know I ain't got}
{X}
{D: put 'em back on make 'em}
{D: try to put them on the back.}
{D: Well that's a pretty thing}.
Mm-hmm.
Both of us.
Huh?
{D: How you saying how you said that}?
Mm-hmm.
I and my
friend's coming over to visit you.
Mm-hmm.
Oh it's.
{X}
A friend?
Me.
He's not- he- he's not as tall as I.
I'm not as tall as
{D: he}.
{D: Better than that}.
{D: Long journey}.
Yeah.
He uh- uh- uh- uh two miles is a long journey and I figured he just about had
{D: give out.}
And I know he would have.
{X}
You'd say that's
{D: mine}.
I'd say that's- that's mine.
That's his.
That's hers.
That's their- that's theirs
{D: I'd say well}
come back to see me again.