Interviewer:  {NS} Things first um {NS} first of all your name? {NS}
647:  My name {NS} {C: lawnmower running throughout beginning} Alexandrine {B} {NS} you can just put ms Richards {B} if you want. {NS}
Interviewer:  How do you spell your first name? {NS}
647:  oh lemme see, A-L-E-X {NS} Wait make a guess cuz I don't know how to read no {X} {NS} A {NS} L {NS} E {NS} X {NS} A {NS} N {NS} D {NS} R {NS} I {NS} N {NS} E {NS} {B}
Interviewer:  And your address?
647:  {NS} box uh {B} {NS} box what box {NS} Boxin- {B} {NS}
Interviewer:  And the name of this community? {NS}
647:  Boothville. {NS} Its on the route and I gotta put a route {B} here. {NS}
Interviewer:  And the name of this parish?
647:  {NS} Plaquemines Parish. {NS}
Interviewer:  And the state? {NS}
647:  The state?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Well the United States huh? {NS}
Interviewer:  But {NS} it's Boothville {NS}
647:  That's all know it Boothville.
Interviewer:  {NS} mm-kay {NS} Where were you born? {NS}
647:  Homeplace. {NS}
Interviewer:  Homeplace?
647:  {NS} mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  That's just up this road isn't it? {NS}
647:  Yeah up the road a bit back. {NS} {NS}
Interviewer:  And your age?
647:  {NS} Seventy-Seven {NS}
Interviewer:  And {NS} Tell me about the work that you've done?
647:  {NS} The work I done?
Interviewer:  Yeah what sort of work you've done.
647:  {NS} I work for myself in the garden picking bean hoeing {NS} planting beans {NS} I work for myself.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Have you ever worked? {NS}
647:  Out? {NS}
Interviewer:  Out?
647:  Oh when I was a little girl and I was about fourteen #1 fifteen. #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh #
647:  {NS} A nurse {NS} minding children. {NS}
Interviewer:  You were a? {NS}
647:  Minding children yeah when I was a little girl.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm {NS}
Interviewer:  And your religion? {NS}
647:  Baptist. {NS}
Interviewer:  Tell me about your education if you got a chance to go to school what
647:  {NW} No when we come up they didn't have no school for colored people {NS} No school at all whatever. {NS} They had one white school house up here {NS} it was on this side of the river. {NS} And we didn't go to we didn't have no school to go to my mother paid {NS} for my brother and thing to learn to go to school. {NS} Well me and my oldest sister my {X} {C: name} just stayed here. {NS} Well we didn't get no school which after they got married they went to school but me I didn't. {NS} I didn't go. {NS} Then you said no school for colored after I got married you ain't got no school for colored people down here. {NS} I lived on the other side of the river {NS} and uh {NS} my father in law used to ran run run for school {NS} until he got to school and they used to have school in the church except they couldn't find no teacher. {NS} So I don't reckon know the Rileys in the in the sunrise? {NS} {C: mower stops}
Interviewer:  huh? {NS}
647:  The Rileys do you know the Rileys Julia Riley and them? {NS}
Interviewer:  I don't think
647:  You don't know her name? {NS} Well his he uh her brother {NS} had a little education he wasn't no graduate but he had a good learn but he had graduated after he went to school. {NS} And my father I told him well was he knewed enough to teach the children. {NS} So that's where um {NS} that's where they opened school in the in the church. {NS} Then I had to go I had to give things to get our own school house we had to give {NS} prayers and thing and pick up our own money to buy a school house. {NS} And they broke the white school house on this side do you see where they got that school there now?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  They had a school house there and they built that school house and they sold that school house. {NS} And they got together and got the money and they bought that school house and broke it down and brought it across the river and they built it up theyself. {NS} They didn't give us no school. {NS} Not one bit of school. {NS} They used to pic- give the white school and pay 'em to go to school but they didn't give the black people no school but they got {NS}{NS} they got their learning in a ways. {NS} Cuz my da- my husband my da- husband's daddy {NS} used to go about and judge the lesson {NS} If I would ha- if the if {X}{C: name} wouldn't have took all those um {NS} Who is it?
Interviewer:  It's the boy. {NS}
647:  What's the matter you can't start it no more eh?
Aux:  I finished. {NS}
647:  You fin- {NS} You didn't go back of the house there {NS} by my peach tree.
Aux:  {X}
647:  Alright grab my own lawn mower there by the peach tree too. {NS} You can't start it no more I don't guess
Aux:  Oh right over there?
647:  mm-hmm
Aux:  I caught that.
647:  You caught that over by my peach tree and that rain tree? {NS} You caught them clovers right on the other side there? {NS}
Aux:  {D: Where?} {NS} By um-
647:  Halfway yeah you caught it? {NS} Go catch them clovers and all around my flower around my {NS} all around my flower there let me see. {NS} I don't like the boy. {NS}
Interviewer:  Ha {NS}
647:  Who is th- the young children some are lazy. {NS} My children was not lazy like that. {NS}
Interviewer:  Is that your gran- {NS}
647:  uh-huh great-grandson. {NS} mm-hmm {NS} I got great great-grandchildren.
Interviewer:  Gosh. {NS} um {NS} You said you lived on the other side of the river? {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  How many times did you move around out here? {NS} Oh nah I didn't move around. {NS}
647:  You see they caught they call that the spillway. {C: mower restarts} {NS} You had to move for spillway they don't have to make a spillway.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  But they ain't never did make no spillway. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  And that's why we bought over here. {NS}
Interviewer:  So you you lived in Homeplace #1 did you- #
647:  #2 No no # when I was smaller I even don't remember when my mother stood there. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I even don't don't don't remember it mm-mm. {NS}
Interviewer:  Where {NS}
647:  {D: Then we mov- well I was raised down in Nailor.} {NS}
Interviewer:  In where?
647:  {D: Nailor.} {NS}
Interviewer:  Where's-
647:  {D: A place they called Nailor you know down by H. Cumin and that?} {NS}
Interviewer:  No. {NS}
647:  Right above that the lumber yard. {NS} Well were you from down here?
Interviewer:  No I'm not from down here.
647:  You're not from down here?
Interviewer:  I'm from Atlanta. {NS}
647:  Oh {NS}
Interviewer:  Is that in this parish? {NS}
647:  Huh?
Interviewer:  Is that- {X} that's in this parish?
647:  Yeah mm-hmm. {NS} {D: They call it they don't call it Nailor no more.} They call it Port Sulphur everything go i- {NS} everything it Port Sulphur now you know.
Interviewer:  Uh- what?
647:  {D: No more Nailor Port Sulphur.} {NS} Hey there! {C: child shouts} {NS}
Aux2:  {X}
647:  You can shut the door yeah.
Aux2:  What do you want shut? {NS}
647:  I don't know I just had it shut me.
Aux2:  Where you going you don't want to lose that {X} {NS}
647:  Who lawn mowing?
Aux2:  Oh but he's still mowing.
647:  Yeah I got him mowing my lawn.
Aux2:  Yeah I know well you coming up this way {NS} march him if you have to. {C: child noise} I told her I told my sister no.
647:  Huh? {NS}
Interviewer:  You were telling me about where you had the the different places you had been. {NS} That you lived in around Port Sulphur?
647:  uh-uh {NS} Across the river they call it Point Pleasant {NS} on the other side of the river. {NS}
Interviewer:  Point Pleasant? {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS} That's the only place I lived down here {NS} where I growed up.
Interviewer:  #1 Did you tell me outside #
647:  #2 no mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  you went up to New-
647:  Hmm?
Interviewer:  Did you ever live out-outside of this area?
647:  No {NS} A long time ago I tell you before the spillway I stood across the river. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about New Orleans? {NS} Didn't you say you-
647:  Oh yeah I stood on the but only two years and three months I believe.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Before I got married I got married and I left New Orleans. {NS}
Interviewer:  Have you ever been in any clubs or been very active in #1 church #
647:  #2 Nope. # {NS} mm-mm {NS}
Interviewer:  Um tell me about your parents where they were born. {NS}
647:  Oh mama was born in up there in Port Sulphur they used to call it Little Texas. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  But now it's Port Sulphur. {NS}
Aux2:  {NW}
647:  My daddy I don't know where my daddy was born at. {NS} But I know my mama Little Texas they used to call that where your grandma and them had up there. {NS} Port Sulphur they used to call that Texas before. {NS}
Interviewer:  huh {NS}
647:  And after they call it Port Sulphur. {NS}
Interviewer:  Could they read and write your parents?
647:  My daddy not my mama. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} How much education do you think he had?
647:  I don't know I ain't never did ask him.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I don't guess he had that much at the end with the school in that time. {NS}
Interviewer:  um
647:  And in the old time them old time people didn't know how to read or write can't have neither white neither colored.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Could um {NS} what sort of work did your parents do? {NS}
647:  Oh used to farm {NS} {D: they raised} rice. {NS}
Interviewer:  huh? {NS}
647:  Grow rice. {NS}
Interviewer:  They grew rice? {NS}
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  I didn't know that {NS} they grew rice in this area. {NS}
647:  Not here it was up {X} in uh Homeplace. {NS} {D: in Homeplace} Yeah used to grow rice. {NS}
Interviewer:  um
647:  Yeah they used to grow rice across right across the river over there too.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Yeah they used to grow rice.
Interviewer:  Do they still grow it any here?
647:  No nobody grow no rice down this way. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um your grandparents on your mother's side {NS} Where were they born? {NS}
647:  I don't know where my grandmother was born. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you know any #1 thing about them? #
647:  #2 huh? # {NS} A little. {NW} I don't know where I don't know where my grandma was born at. {NS} I don't know where grandmother was born at I never did ask mama. {NS}
Interviewer:  Did she live around here though?
647:  No she lived up in Port Sulphur.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {C: child}
647:  I don't know too much about my grandmother back then.
Interviewer:  Could she read and write? {NS}
647:  I don't know I don't believe. {NS} I know about my my my daddy's uh {C: baby screech} father used to live there out in uh {NS} {D: Nailor they call it.} {NS}
Interviewer:  Your {NS}
647:  My daddy's daddy {NS}
Interviewer:  Used to live where? {NS} {D: In Nailor.} {NS} {D: They call it Port Sulphur now it's no more Nailor.} uh-huh {NS} {NW}
647:  My grandfather was a hundred and ten years old when he died.
Interviewer:  Gosh {NW} Um what sort of work did did your grandparents do?
647:  Oh honey I don't know. {NS} I don't know cuz my grandfather was old and I didn't {D: I knew his of work.} {NS} I guess his children was taken care of but {NS} I don't even know. {NS}
Aux3:  {X}
647:  Come back he don't like the setting down. {NS} Oh he's fixing to cry. let {NS} Push it further this way we're gonna leave him {D: pass. } {NS} Oh look there.
Interviewer:  Does he want- {NS}
647:  Hook the door Grant. Bar hook the door. {NS} Who need to go save {X} {NS} Set her right back there. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about your husband? {NS} um {NS} where was he born? {NS}
647:  {X} at Point Pleasant {NS} over the river.
Interviewer:  At Point Pleasant?
647:  uh-huh {NS}
Interviewer:  I guess he's dead now that- {NS}
647:  huh
Interviewer:  I guess he's dead now?
647:  Yeah dead two years ago. {NS} Two years and three months. {NS}
Interviewer:  How old was he? {NS}
647:  Seventy-seven {NS} when he died. {NS}
Interviewer:  Was he a baptist too?
647:  mm-hmm {NS} yeah. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you know about this education? {NS}
647:  Yeah I don't know what he went to fifth grade I believe. {NS} I think that's all he had. {NS}
Interviewer:  Was he very active in {NS} clubs or organizations or church?
647:  He didn't like none of that no {NW}. {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 What sort of work did he do? #
647:  #2 He's # like a carpenter {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Carpenter used to farm for hisself. {NS} We used to have orange trees raise orange trees {NS} They had trees growing in the front yard all the way to the back to the back canal but the cold killed them all. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh were his parents born around here? {NS}
647:  hmm?
Interviewer:  Were his parents born- {C: cough}
647:  Across the river in Point Pleasant. {NS} {X} {D: for me out here.} {NS} They all dead too. {NS}
Interviewer:  Tell me what this {NS} this area's like how much this this area has changed since {NS}
647:  #1 Oh #
Interviewer:  #2 you know that # you remember {NS} growing up. {NS}
647:  How much did it change? {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS}
647:  Lord I saw some big good big big change here with the people and everything else. {C: baby} {NS} The people ain't nice like they used to be. {NS} Everything done change this was nothing but orange trees over here they ain't got no more. {NS} Nothing but Johnson grass now. {NS} Half the way is gone for you to eat. {NS} 'cept of the Johnson grass. {NS}
Interviewer:  People used to grow oranges in this area?
647:  Oh yeah all over here yeah. {NS} There ain't nothing but orange trees down here. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What does most people do for a living now? {NS}
647:  Trawl. {NS} Work on tug boats. {NS}
Aux2:  Come on back give it here come on. {NS} Give me a kiss. {NS}
647:  I guess that's gonna be stopped after a while.
Aux2:  {NS} What? {NS}
647:  Trawling. {NS}
Interviewer:  Why's that? {NS}
647:  I saw I guess that's gonna be stopped after a while. {NS}
Interviewer:  How come? {NS}
647:  I was looking at it last night on television somebody's going to keep them out of the {NS}
Aux2:  #1 Terraforming. #
647:  #2 the trawl # Huh?
Aux2:  Terraform.
647:  That's what? {NS} Down here too yeah.
Aux2:  Yeah I know.
647:  A- and the man said a lot of white {D: come down and said} they don't know what they gonna do if that law pass. {NS} Say gonna starve and they families gonna starve they they families gonna starve {NS} {D: if they pass that law.} {NS} They ain't doing nothing but passing all kind of laws. {NS} that starve the people out {NS} that's all they doing. {NS} A lot of people try sitting here have to get rid of their boats they won't be able to trawl no more they have to sell their boats and {NS} seek new jobs and that that ain't they ain't they ain't given no they ain't got no jobs. {C: baby} {C: screech} Anything they laying off a lot of people but they ain't hiring nobody to work. {NS}
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NW}
647:  Yeah. {NS}
Interviewer:  Um {NS} I'd like to get an idea of what the house that you grew up in looked like. {NS} Do you think you could you know where the rooms #1 are? #
647:  #2 The house # I grow grew up in? {NS}
Interviewer:  Could you sorta
647:  #1 Lord child tell you the truth #
Interviewer:  #2 draw? #
647:  I don't know how that house was. {NS}
Interviewer:  You don't remember it? {NS}
647:  No.
Aux2:  {X}
Interviewer:  What about this house here? {NS}
647:  Well this house here yeah this house just a la- a put up house. {NS} My other house I had six rooms to it. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  It had uh a porch on the roadside {NS} and a big screen porch in the front. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Now {NS} do you think you could sorta draw it?
647:  #1 No I don't know how #
Interviewer:  #2 or you tell #
647:  to draw.
Interviewer:  Well you tell me and I'll try to draw it how {NS}
647:  Oh-ho
Interviewer:  What shape do you know what it looked like? {C: 647 laughs} {NS} {C: baby}
647:  Ye- yeah I remember my house there. {NS}
Aux3:  Yeah I remember grandma.
647:  Oh girl you should remember my house. {NS} What come you's took away from me there.
Aux3:  The green house?
647:  Huh?
Aux3:  #1 The green house? #
Aux2:  #2 The green house. #
647:  Yeah what other house. {NS} That's the only house I ever stood in. {C: baby}
Aux3:  You had a {D: Garrett}. {NS}
647:  A front porch. {NS}
Aux3:  A front a uh {D: Garrett.}
647:  #1 Yeah and then I had a #
Aux3:  #2 You had a porch. #
647:  a back porch.
Aux3:  You had living room.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
Aux2:  You had a bedroom.
647:  I had two bedroom. {NS}
Aux3:  A kitchen. {NS}
647:  That's right.
Aux3:  And a room on this side
647:  Yeah
Aux3:  And the bathroom's over this way. #1 I had six rooms #
Aux2:  #2 I think you had a room back this way. #
Aux3:  #1 {D: the room was back there} #
Interviewer:  #2 What #
647:  #1 The bathroom was #
Interviewer:  #2 How # What shape is it is it just a square? {C: baby} {NS} #1 House tha- #
Aux3:  #2 Well it was # #1 shaped like this. #
647:  #2 Old # #1 time house. #
Aux3:  #2 I mean no #
Interviewer:  Like like you're doing the floor plan. Was it square? #1 or #
647:  #2 Old # time house.
Aux3:  Old house.
Interviewer:  So it was longer?
Aux3:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  #1 going #
647:  #2 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  {NS} When you first {NS} say if it went something like this? {C: baby}
Aux3:  It was in a {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  What {NS} say if this is the front which {NS} There's a porch in front?
647:  #1 mm yeah #
Interviewer:  #2 Did it go all the way across? #
647:  All the way across yeah. {NS}
Interviewer:  And then when you went in #1 {D: Where where would the door be?} #
647:  #2 Through the front door. #
Interviewer:  Where right in the middle here?
647:  Yes {NS}
Interviewer:  And what room- {X} {C: scream} Would that be just one big room?
647:  #1 The live- yeah living room. #
Aux3:  #2 Yeah #
647:  big living room the next room was a bedroom.
Interviewer:  Just right behind it? {NS}
647:  Yeah behind the living room. {NS} Then the next room {NS} Was was a a {NS} a small kitchen. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} #1 Right behind the bedroom? #
647:  #2 {X} # Yeah. {NS} #1 Then I had another big room behind the kitchen #
Aux2:  #2 {D: you kick that boom oh!} {C: playing with child} # #1 Look at it turn on. #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh #
647:  mm-hmm
Aux2:  Time to {NS} {X}
Interviewer:  #1 Just looking like that then just #
647:  #2 Yeah mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  {NS} One room right behind the other?
647:  Yeah {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 This would be a small bedroom? #
Aux2:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 Behind the kitchen? #
647:  #2 Yeah mm-hmm # {NS} going up the side to keep them in a small bedroom. {C: baby} {NS}
Interviewer:  Where? {NS}
647:  You see like this here with the {X} {C: vehicle}
Interviewer:  What? {NS} Like {NS} #1 like #
647:  #2 like # This room my kitchen was {D: shaped like} {X} And uh {NS} {NS}
Interviewer:  So {D: Like this} {C: screech}
647:  Yeah that's right. {C: baby}
Aux2:  Stop that. {C: she doesn't} You can't mess with that. {NS}
647:  They alright?
Interviewer:  So which which side would the #1 kitchen be on? #
Aux2:  #2 Look who is that? #
647:  {NS} The kitchen was on the low side. {NS}
Interviewer:  Over here?
Aux2:  {X}
647:  Yeah just like that.
Interviewer:  And this was a bedroom? {NS}
647:  Yeah uh-huh
Interviewer:  And there was a bedroom here?
647:  No it was just a big living room I had back there. {NS}
Interviewer:  Well if this is the living room here?
647:  Yeah then I a dining room I had in the back of the kitchen.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about the bathroom? {NS}
647:  The bathroom was on the {NS} the bathroom was on the upper side of the {NS} the dining room.
Interviewer:  The bathroom's here?
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Aux2:  {X}
Interviewer:  You say there was the {NS} two porches? {NS}
647:  Yeah one porch on both sides.
Interviewer:  Where?
647:  I had a porch about here. {X}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  On the lower side {NS} And the front had a big porch {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 A porch just going #
647:  #2 {D: a front porch} #
Interviewer:  #1 How just like that #
647:  #2 Yeah a ways yeah uh-huh just like that. # mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  What did you wha- what {NS} did you call this porch here? {NS}
647:  hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  Was this the screened in porch?
647:  no uh-huh the front porch was a screened porch.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
Aux2:  {X} {NS}
Aux3:  {X}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear an old fashioned name for porch?
647:  mm {NS}
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  They used to call it a gallery.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  They used to call it the gallery {NS} but now they calls it a porch.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {NW} {C: coughs} {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um {NS} a little room you could have off your kitchen for keeping canned goods and?
647:  Oh I didn't have none I had a cabinet I used to keep my things in a cabinet.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Did you ever see people have a little room though?
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  What'd they call it? {NS}
647:  That was a {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of pantry or a kitchen closet or?
647:  Pantry no I ain't had no pantry I didn't have no pantry in my house.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-mm {NS}
Interviewer:  Did you ever ever see kitchens built different like built separate from the rest of the house?
647:  Oh you had to used to have that.
Interviewer:  {D: They did?}
647:  You had it built separate {NS} from the house and you had a little porch used to walk {NS} you had to walk between the between the kitchen.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What'd they call that part did it have a special name?
647:  No I don't think it. {NS} {C: crying} That used to be an old time house they don't make no more house like that now. {C: crying} {NS} But I ain't never I ain't never did {C: wails} live in nothing like that though.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {NS} I haven't seen. {NS}
Interviewer:  um {NS} How did you have your house heated?
647:  {NS} With heaters. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {X} {C: others} Did you ever have a fireplace? {NS}
647:  No. mm-mm I ain't never did have that. {NS}
Interviewer:  You know on a fireplace the thing that the smoke goes up through?
647:  Yeah I know I never did have that I had a stove though. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  It was a stove pipe. {NS} It'd go through the wall I had that.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about on a fireplace? {NS}
647:  I ain't never did have no fireplace.
Interviewer:  Well what did they call that? {NS} they?
647:  They used to call it a fireplace. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Well that they'd build maybe out of bricks to carry the smoke up
647:  Yeah fireplace. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} They call that the chim- {NS}
647:  Chimney yeah.
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  Call yeah they call it a chimney.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Yeah
Interviewer:  What about the the open flames on the floor in front of the fireplace {NS} that you could set things on. {NS}
647:  Oh the mantel piece across the
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  uh {NS} made across the the fireplace.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  We used to call it a what a shelf. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  What about down on the floor {NS} what'd they call that?
647:  Oh I don't know. {NS} Where you make the fire?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Oh I don't know that's just a fireplace I guess {X} you never would set nothing on that.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh do you ever hear of a hearth or hearth? {C: Vehicle}
647:  {D: what?}
Interviewer:  {NS} um {NS} {X} a hearth?
647:  A horse?
Interviewer:  A hearth or hair or something like that. {NS}
647:  I don't know nothing about that. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about the things that they set the wood on in the fireplace? {NS}
647:  Oh {NS} I don't know what they call it. {NS} I don't know what they call it's a piece of iron they had set on each side of the fireplace each side {NS} and put the wood I don't know what they call it me. {NS} mm I don't know what. {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 What kind of #
647:  #2 {D: Well} # put charcoal or stone coal you could burn it in too.
Interviewer:  uh-huh you burn coal? {NS}
647:  Yeah we burn coal in the heater. #1 uh-huh #
Aux2:  #2 Excuse me. #
Interviewer:  {NS} What would you carry the coal in? {NS}
647:  Little buckets. {X} {C:background chatter} Stone coal you can burn that in here. {C: cont}
Interviewer:  um what {NS} What about the kind of wood that you'd use for starting a fire? {X} {C: child}
647:  They used to call it kindling wood.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {C: children}
647:  Start it by little pieces you call it {C: children} kindling wood.
Aux2:  shh be quiet.
Interviewer:  Just a little piece of wood?
647:  Yeah you cut it all by little pieces in order to light the fire and you put your big one on the top of.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm
Interviewer:  Say you could take a a big piece of wood and set that toward the back of the fire place?
647:  Set a piece of wood uh {NS} yeah its called a back log. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You set back in that and it would keep fire all night. {C: interference}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Yeah mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Well you sound like you're pretty familiar with fireplaces after all.
647:  Well yeah. {NS} In the city them houses in the city a long time ago that's all they had fireplaces {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  But now you don't see that much no more.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  They uses heater now. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about the um black stuff that forms in the chimney? {NS}
647:  What that soot? {NS}
Interviewer:  And what you'd shovel out of the fireplace?
647:  You had to take um {NS} You'd have to get on top of the house and fix {NS} a sack of some branches you know? {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  And let drop it down and knock all that soot down and you take that out. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  #1 What about #
647:  #2 {D: That's how} # we had to clean them fireplace.
Interviewer:  {NS} What about when you burn wood all you have left is the?
647:  The ashes. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You have to take a bucket of something and m- shovel take that out and throw it out. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  And {NS} you know when a um {NS} in a two story house to get from the first floor to the second floor?
647:  I ain't never I ain't never been in {NS} I never did stay living in a story a two story house. {NS}
Interviewer:  Well what what would you have to walk up? {NS}
647:  The step. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What about outside? {NS} You call those?
Aux4:  Mama!
647:  Steps {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-kay
647:  {NS} Yeah
Aux4:  Yeah!
647:  steps outside. {NS}
Interviewer:  What do you call these new houses set up on {NS}
647:  Those piles.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} How come? {NS}
647:  huh? {C: screech}
Interviewer:  How come? {C: screech}
647:  They put that up there for the storm {NS} for the water. {C: screech} {NS}
Interviewer:  Does the water get very high? {NS}
647:  It'll get high when the storm come. {NS} No storm {X} {C: child} not yet since they put this up. {NS} But for Camille this was {X}{C: child} you couldn't see nothing {C: baby} you just could bare- -ly see {NS} top of the houses. {NS}
Interviewer:  Gosh
647:  Camille {NS} That's no for Betsy But Camille they ain't had nothing left here. {C: screech} Nothing nothing just a just like this school here.
Interviewer:  Camille did-
647:  Camille took everything over here every house. {C: baby} {NS} Yeah Camille {NS} didn't left a thing didn't have a plant left. {NS} {C: super screech} My house ain't never find a picture my house. {NS}
Interviewer:  Really? {NS}
647:  The furnitures and nothing else that's right. {NS}
Interviewer:  mm {NS} {NW}
647:  And we put everything over here.
Interviewer:  Is Camille the same one that hit Biloxi? {NS}
647:  I don't know {NS} {X} {C: screech} Betsy hit Biloxi Camille hit Biloxi? {NS} Wasn't that Betsy? {NS} Betsy hit hit Mississippi where all them people got a loss {NS} what they were celebrating cuz Betsy and Betsy came and pick all of them away? {X} Betsy hit Mississippi but I don't know where else Camille hit. {NS} Camille didn't hit in town. {NS} Betsy hit New Orleans. {NS} Theres a lot of people got drowned in in New Orleans now they got more people got drowned {NS} in the city than we got drowned down here for Betsy. {NS} After coming here we got a few of 'em that drowned cuz they didn't want to leave. {NS} They didn't have {D: tuning. } {NS}
Interviewer:  I guess it's pretty bad when the they get bad weather here there's just one road out.
647:  Yeah it yeah you just got to {NW} they notify you to leave. {NS}
Interviewer:  yeah {NS}
647:  Yeah you have to leave some time when you leave the course it's just like this bumper to bumper. {NS} Lot of time getting out so slow. {NS} mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  Um talking about things you'd have in the house this thing here you'd call a {NS}
647:  What a chair?
Interviewer:  okay {NS} What about the longer thing y'all are sitting on? {NS}
647:  Sofa {D: duofold} they made it. {NS} I {X} I call it a sofa some people call it a {D: duofold.} {C: baby} {X} {C: screech} {D: duofold} something.
Interviewer:  {D: A big}
647:  uh-huh {D: Irma please do something} {C: screech}
Aux2:  They call them things before {D: duofold} this-
647:  They they call 'em sofa now. {C: baby}
Aux2:  Come on
647:  {NS} This is a sofa.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That's a sofa chair. {NS}
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  And that's a sofa ch- {NS}
Interviewer:  What what? {NS}
647:  Chair sofa chair
Aux2:  #1 and this here is a long sofa. #
Aux3:  #2 Y'all ever gonna stop that baby? #
Aux2:  {X}
647:  And this here is a
Aux2:  Why you crying?
647:  What they call them chairs that? {NS} Irma what they are they call them chair {NS}
Aux2:  Reclining
647:  A reclining chair. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You throw that back. {C: baby}
Interviewer:  Is a sofa chair a special kind of chair? {NS}
647:  I don't know.
Aux2:  {X}
647:  Must be. {NS}
Aux2:  {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  What sort of things did people used to have in their bedroom to keep their clothes in? {NS}
647:  Oh we used to call it an armoire.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm armoire or chifforobe. {C: baby}
Aux2:  {X}
Interviewer:  Could you hang things up in an armoire? {NS}
647:  Yeah in a chifforobe too. {NS}
Interviewer:  What was the difference? {NS}
647:  What armoire and a chifforobe?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  An armoire is just a a you fold your clothes on one side
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  and hang it on one side. {NS} And the chifforobe {NS} got drawers down on one side my chifforobe got three drawers on one side. {NS} and a place where you put your hats {NS} and on one side is for hanging clothes. {C: baby} {NS} I got a chifforobe now that's old time you hardly seem that no more. {NS} {NS} {NS} You hardly see a chifforobe no more.
Interviewer:  ha {NS} What about something that just had drawers in it so you couldn't hang things.
647:  Chest of drawers. {C: screech} Chest of drawers just with drawers. {C: baby} {NS}
Interviewer:  Any anything else besides a chest
Aux2:  Leave them alone.
647:  mm-mm
Aux2:  let
Interviewer:  What about something they have nowadays built into the {NS} a little room {NS} built into the house? {NS}
647:  Lockers you call that. {NS}
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  A locker. {NS} {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} anything else? {NS}
647:  A locker is like {NS} {D: just like that} {NS} See that? {NS} {NS}
Interviewer:  Oh yeah that {NS}
647:  That's a locker. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Staying clothes up in there it's just staying clothes up my husband made shelves so I could fold my clothes and put them in there. {NS} You wanna see how it's made? {NS}
Interviewer:  Sure. {NS} Um you know those things {X} {C: children}
647:  huh {NS}
Interviewer:  Those things that you can put in windows to pull down and keep out the light?
647:  Window shade? You got window shade you got windo- and blind.
Interviewer:  Okay the shades are the solid
647:  Yeah mm-hmm that's a window shade there. {NS} mm-hmm
Aux2:  down right there. {NS}
Interviewer:  Say if you had a lot of old worthless things like old broken down furniture and stuff like that {NS} that you didn't have any use for
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What would you call that? {NS} Say it's not good anymore #1 or it's just #
647:  #2 I'll call it # junk me. {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-kay {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  What about a place where you could use to store things that you don't know what to do with {NS}
647:  Well you put it in a barn if you want to store it away.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Yeah a barn they call it. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear or a junk room or lumber room {NS}
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  or store room? {NS}
647:  mm-mm {NS}
Aux3:  {X}
647:  {NS} I have a barn. {NS} I call it a barn me. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um the {NS} say if a woman's house was {NS} in a big mess she'd say I have to {NS} do what?
647:  Have to clean it up? {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-kay {NS} And the thing that you'd sweep with? {NS}
647:  A broom.
Interviewer:  okay {NS} Say if the broom was in the corner there and the door was open so that you couldn't see the broom
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  you'd say the broom was? {NS}
647:  In the corner.
Interviewer:  Or {NS} in {NS} relation to the door it was where? {NS}
647:  I'll call it in the corner. {NS}
Aux3:  {X} back just behind the door.
647:  Oh that's what you's talking about you mean behind the door? {NS} You say back of the door. {NS}
Interviewer:  And um {NS} you say years ago women would would get all the clothes together. {NS} and then go out and do the {NS} On Monday women would get the clothes together and they'd do the?
647:  The washing. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay and on Tuesday they do the? {NS}
647:  Ironing
Interviewer:  uh-huh {C: 647 laughs} {NS} What about nowadays {NS} um you could send your clothes to the?
647:  To the laundry.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Did people ever used to use that word laundry {NS} to talk about washing and ironing? {NS}
647:  Yeah sometimes mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  Would they say I have to do my laundry
647:  I have to iron I have to wash {NW} {NS} that's the way they say that. {NS} mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What about the big {NS} black thing they have out in the yard? {NS}
647:  With the warm water to wash? {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You know about that the big {X} pot.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Is that what they call it
647:  #1 Yeah #
Interviewer:  #2 a pot? #
647:  uh-huh {NS} Yeah it's it had three little legs on it uh-huh {NS} All you used to call them pot {NS}
Interviewer:  What'd you used to call it {D: brown} {NS}
647:  Boil {X}
Interviewer:  What about something that it has a #1 spout #
647:  #2 Go give him # a piece of bread. {NS} Go give him a piece of bread. {X} {D: I feel they don't got to be jealous looking through that glass there} give both of them a piece. {NS}
Interviewer:  Something you could
647:  Your mama just brought in you brought me some bread? {NS}
Interviewer:  Something you could use for heating up water to make hot tea in {NS} something that has a spout to it? {NS}
647:  Oh a kettle.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Do you ever use that word kettle #1 to talk about the wash box? #
647:  #2 Yeah mm-hmm yeah. # I had a kettle
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  I used to set on the stove my kettle come here took my kettle away from me.
Interviewer:  ha
647:  A man beg me for that kettle {NS} A lawyer from in town that man beg me for that kettle. {NS} And I wouldn't sell it but he wanted to give me a um {NS} a pint of whiskey for it. {NS} He said he'd give me a pint a a pickle of good whiskey {NS} I told him no I don't use no whiskey. {NS} He begged me for that kettle I wouldn't sell and give him that kettle {NS} and come here and took my kettle ain't never find my kettle. {NS} {D: A large} black iron kettle.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Do people you know that pot they had out in the yard {NS} do people ever call that a kettle?
647:  No uh-uh {NS} A kettle had a sprout on it
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  and a pot that was a big old {NS}
Interviewer:  big
647:  old iron pot mm-hmm. {NS}
Interviewer:  And the {NS} the top of the house {NS} the covering on the house? {NS}
647:  Some of it was covered with slate some of it was covered with zinc. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} They call that the?
647:  Some time they old long time they used to cover it with shingles.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  But the they call that part the? {NS}
647:  The what the roof of the house?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  yeah
Interviewer:  What about the things along the side of the roof that could carry the water off? {NS}
647:  Oh gutters. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} and you know when you have a house in an L. {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  You know that low place where they join? {NS}
647:  Yeah
Interviewer:  Call that the?
647:  {X} a house made in a L.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about that place up on the roof that low place? {NS}
647:  Sometimes they'd call it the roof we have a hip hip roof.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of the valley of a roof {NS} or the alley? {NS}
647:  mm-mm {NS}
Interviewer:  And um {NS} say if you wanted to {NS} to nail up a picture {NS} you say you'd take a nail and a {NS}
647:  And a hammer. {NS}
Interviewer:  You say I took the hammer and I what the #1 nail in? #
647:  #2 Nail yeah # and hang the picture up. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  And um {NS} {NW} {C: child} {NS} Where did people used to {NS} um {NS} keep their stove wood? {NS}
647:  Put they in a corner in the house I had a box put they in a box.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Did they ever have a special building that they'd use?
647:  uh-uh no
Aux3:  {X}
647:  You keep out of the way. {NS}
Aux3:  Oh what's wrong? {NS}
Interviewer:  What about for keeping their tools? do people ever have
647:  Toolbox {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Make a box and put the tools in it {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um before they had {NS} toilets inside what did they call that {NS} the outdoor toilet? {NS}
647:  Outdoor {D: style?}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  They used to call it a closet. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  Anything else they call it?
647:  mm-mm {NS}
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear any joking name for it?
647:  No {NS} uh-uh
Interviewer:  Or any sort of vulgar names?
647:  mm-mm {NS}
Interviewer:  What dif-
647:  Irma sit down you just like a {D: Mageline}
Aux2:  {X} {NS} You go and see if Daniel wants some water. {X}
647:  {D: Give him a plastic cup get one of them green plastic cup} {C: screeching} {NS} Not the blue one now look in the white cabinet. {NS} Give him one of them plastic cups {NS} uh-huh {NS}
Aux2:  {D: I don't need you} {NS}
647:  You'd better leave that boy alone that boy get a little bigger and he'll whip y'all. {NS}
Interviewer:  ha
647:  {NW} {NS}
Interviewer:  What what different buildings did they have on the farm? {NS} You mentioned a barn what else did they have? {NS}
647:  That's all I know {NS} Oh I thought you were shutting them up. {NS}
Interviewer:  Where would rich people store their corn? {NS}
647:  Oh in their barn.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  In the barn. {NS}
Interviewer:  Was it a special place in the barn? {NS}
647:  Yeah sometimes they had a a corner separate to throw the corn. {NS}
Interviewer:  huh? {NS}
647:  Sometime they separate the place to throw the corn yeah.
Interviewer:  uh-huh #1 What #
647:  #2 Stack # it up in a pile. {NS}
Interviewer:  What'd they call that place? {NS}
647:  Just call it the barn and its place to throw the corn #1 the corn in. #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh # {NS} Do you ever hear of a crib {NS} or corn barn or {NS} corn crib {NS}
647:  mm-mm {NS} That's what a horse had to eat in. {NS}
Interviewer:  What's that? {NS}
647:  A star a stall was for the horse to eat in. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh Was that part of the barn? {NS}
647:  uh-uh yeah the bar- those horse they in their barn for they self. {NS} The horse be in the barn they in a stable to theyself and the corn to theyself.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  What about the grain where would grain be kept? {NS}
647:  What grain? {C: baby} {NS}
Interviewer:  Was there a special place-
647:  Mustard green and thing like that?
Interviewer:  Grain. {NS}
647:  I don't know hear talk of that. {NS} Grain. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a grainery or granary?
647:  uh-uh {NS}
Interviewer:  What about the {NS} the upper part of the barn where you could store the hay? {NS}
647:  Oh yeah that place and you could story hay up at put up um {NS} a fence like in there for the store the hay.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} You know that that upper part of the barn though?
647:  Yeah up in the loft
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Yeah {NS}
Interviewer:  What about the {NS} You know when you first cut the hay out in the field and you let it dry #1 so you break it #
647:  #2 Yeah #
Interviewer:  up in little piles?
647:  mm-hmm Call it a stack. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} #1 How big #
647:  #2 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  is the stack? {NS}
647:  Oh sure you can make it big. {NS} They'd be round
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  big round {NS} {D: point it up}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} But what about the little piles of hay just about this big? {NS} Do you ever hear of a doodle or a cock or a shock of hay?
647:  mm-mm no
Aux5:  that's what I want.
647:  A shock of hay that must be that what they bundle up. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm We never did put to have that down here. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about you know when you cut the hay off a piece of land then enough grows back so you can cut it again #1 the same year #
647:  #2 Yeah mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  {NS} what did they call that? {NS}
647:  Call it hay that's all. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  {D: Harving} up the hay for the animal. {NS} But we never did raise that like that. {NS}
Interviewer:  What different animals did y'all have? {NS}
647:  Horse and a cows {NS} we had cow and horse. {NS}
Interviewer:  Where did you keep your cows? {NS}
647:  On the back levy {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  the horse you can keep 'em in the tie 'em anywhere on the road. {NS} Put him in the stable at night
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Close 'em up in the stable. {NS}
Interviewer:  Did you have a shelter for the cows? {NS}
647:  No {NS} too many. {NS}
Interviewer:  How many did y'all have? {NS}
647:  There's too many for thirty eight cattle {NS} and we lost them all with the {D: shovel.} {NS}
Interviewer:  huh {NS}
647:  Lost them all. {NS}
Interviewer:  When? {NS}
647:  It was couple years a good while ago. {NS} He just would holler and he just {NS} fall down dead. {NS}
Interviewer:  mm {NS}
647:  Sickness was {D: in them} {NS}
Interviewer:  The place where you turn the cows out to graze you call that the? {NS}
647:  Turn 'em loose you just call it you call it nothing. {NS}
Interviewer:  huh? {NS}
647:  I said we just turn them loose that's all ain't nothing but turning 'em loose. {NS} {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  We had no farm we'd just turn 'em l- just let 'em go in the back let 'em {C: baby} {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  stay out there all day and all night. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever call that the pasture? {NS}
647:  We didn't have no pasture for 'em. {NS}
Interviewer:  What's a pasture {NS}
647:  That's well that's when you {NS} uh put posts and you fence make uh {NS} a fence a wire fence for 'em to stay in. mm-hmm {NS} But we didn't need that over here we didn't need that. {NS}
Interviewer:  Did you ever see a little fenced in place with {NS} out in the pasture where where you could um shut the cows up and leave them overnight for milking. {NS}
647:  Oh yeah mm-hmm {NS} Yeah we had pasture to shut 'em up at night. {NS} Milk 'em and turn loose the next day. {NW} {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Yeah we had pasture to shut 'em up. {C: baby} {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a milk gap or cow gap? {NS}
647:  Yeah a cowpen that's just a little pen for the {NS} when you milk your cow. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um you know on a house {NS} the room up between the {NS} the roof and the top of the house you call that the?
647:  I ain't never had no house like that what two story building? {NS}
Interviewer:  Nah I was thinking did you ever hear of the {NS} the garret or the attic or the loft. {NS}
647:  Well that attic is just like this here. {NS} Now we calls that a loft and people call that up in there the attic.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  You call it the loft. {NS}
647:  I used to call we used to call it the loft a long time ago but now people calls it the attic. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  What about {NS} um the kind of animals that they get {NS} bacon from? {NS}
647:  That's hogs. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  They make bacon out of hogs. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you care if I shut this door cuz
647:  Oh no you can shut it. {NS}
Interviewer:  the noise. {NS}
647:  It ain't gonna do to much good for the noise though. {NS} Y'all going? {X} You going Scott? {NS} Shoot let her go let her go play with him. {NS} They ain't gonna go on the road they ain't gonna go on {NS} {X} That boy's scared of them um {NS} that boy's scared of the trucks. {NS} He said turn they {C: baby} {D: gonna roll over. } {NS} Say uncle Turner gonna kill him on the road. Something gonna roll over. {NS}
Interviewer:  Where would where would you keep hogs? {NS}
647:  Hogs in the pen I never did fool with hogs.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Don't fool with no hog too much trouble. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about chickens where would they be? {NS}
647:  In the pen in they chicken in the pen the wire things I got chicken out there. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about a little place just for the mother hen and the little chicks? {NS}
647:  You call it a {D: brooder.} {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  What about something you could use for shipping chickens {NS} you put them in a? {NS}
647:  You puts 'em in a crate when you ship 'em but I don't ship no chickens.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about a coob or coop? {NS}
647:  Yeah some people put them under a coop. {NS}
Interviewer:  What's that look like? {NS}
647:  That's made just like this {NS} and you got slats across it. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {D: mm-hmm that's just about a coop. }
Interviewer:  When do you put them in that? {NS}
647:  The hens with the little chicken. {NS} mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  And {NS} a hen on a nest of eggs would be called a?
647:  Setting.
Interviewer:  mm-kay {NS} What about what you could put in a {NS} if you wanted to make a hen start laying what would you put in her nest to fool her? {NS}
647:  Put in to lay with? {NS} Lay on? {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Put straw hay. {NS}
Interviewer:  Or {NS} you put in a
647:  In the nest for them to lay the eggs on.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  #1 mm-hmm #
Aux3:  #2 Glass # eggs. (C: whispering)
647:  Oh them glass eggs that what you talking about glass eggs?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  I don't use them I used to use them before but I don't have none no more. {NS} You don't see them glass eggs no more. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh-huh say if you had a real good set of dishes {NS} your dishes would be made out of? {NS}
647:  China.
Interviewer:  What about an egg made out of that? {NS} Did you ever see a {NS}
647:  Egg made out of what?
Interviewer:  China. {NS}
647:  Oh them china egg yeah I done seen that. {NS} What's? {NS}
Interviewer:  What did people use those for? {NS}
647:  For put in the nest for the chicken to lay. {NS} uh-huh {NS} {C: bad screech}
Interviewer:  You know um {NS} when you're eating chicken there's a bone that goes like this. {NS}
647:  Yeah um
Aux2:  Wishbone.
647:  yeah the wishbone.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  Any stories about that? {NS}
647:  Yeah {NS} yeah somebody'd pull on it and um {NS} How do you say that? {NS} you're lucky {NS}
Aux3:  Oh you make a wish.
647:  You make a yeah you make a wish and you don't tell 'em about what you wishing. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Two people pull on the bone you know {NS} the one get the biggest piece got the wish. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} {NW} {NS}
647:  Well no any true that just people talk.
Interviewer:  Ha {NS} um {NS} You know {NS} on the {NS} the barn {NS} a fixed in place around the barn where the animals could walk #1 around? #
647:  #2 mm-hmm # {NS} You call it a pasture. {NS}
Interviewer:  Well just just around the barn.
647:  Well yeah that's a pasture.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Do you ever hear of a cow lot or a barn yard or {NS} a stable lot? {NS}
647:  Yeah hear talk hear talk about stable yeah. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS} Where you shut your horses at night. {NS}
Interviewer:  Say if uh {NS} if you had a {NS} cotton planted you'd call that a cotton? {NS}
647:  Cotton farm? {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Or you'd plant the cotton in a big? {NS}
647:  {D: Growing farm needs} {NS} big lot of ground huh?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  Well if it's a big lot of ground you call it the {NS}
647:  A square of cotton uh {NS} You call it a square of cotton. {C: Vehicle}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about if you planted sweet potatoes {NS} you call it a sweet potato {NS}
647:  Oh I don't know {D: somethings} {NS} There are sweet potato farm but we don't have that down here.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Do you ever hear of a patch? {NS}
647:  Yeah {NS} they call go out in the patch {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
647:  #2 {D: You go out in the} # {D: patch mm-hmm. } {NS}
Interviewer:  What about something a whole lot bigger than a patch? {NS}
647:  Well I don't know. {NS} {D: I don't remember what you call it now. } {NS}
Interviewer:  um {NS} Say if {NS} a kind of fence that people used to have {NS} a wooden fence it'd go in and out? {NS}
647:  Oh you talking about the little picket fence. {NS}
Interviewer:  What did the picket fence look like? {NS}
647:  Well thats just a wooden fence they cut out pointed {NS} and they about this far apart. {NS}
Interviewer:  About four inches
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  apart? {NS}
647:  Yeah. {NS}
Interviewer:  Would it be {X} {C: screech}
647:  Would it be what? {C: baby} {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 Would it be #
647:  #2 Yeah # you nail it you nail it on a cross piece yeah you got to.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about a wooden fence that would go in and out like this {NS} around the pasture did you ever see one of those?
647:  mm-mm {NS} I seen maybe the wire around the pasture but not with the planks. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} um {NS} What kind of wire would y-
647:  Barbed wire. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  They call it barbed wire with stickers.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} You take the wire and then you tail it to a? {NS}
647:  Yeah {NS} you nail it to the posts. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {NS} {X} {NS} I hope they don't mess with my lawn my lawnmower there. {NS}
Interviewer:  To set to set a fence up you'd dig hole and put the
647:  You got to dig a hole and put the posts down yeah.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  You got to put all your posts down before you put the fence {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  before you put the wire on it. you hungry? {NS}
Interviewer:  Did you ever see a fence or wall made out of loose stone or rock? {NS}
647:  mm-mm {NS}
Interviewer:  um {NS} If you wanted to get a an area ready for {NS} for planting what would you break the ground up with? {NS}
647:  Well a plow or tractor now they they break the ground up with a tractor they don't use no more horses. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  They use tractor now. {NS}
Interviewer:  What'd what did
647:  What he had he drop it he looking for what is stuck to his foot? {NS} He mess his gum?
Aux6:  mm-hmm
647:  He had chewing gum? {NS}
Aux2:  Well I'll get it. {NS}
647:  {D: look at it little boy} Ha {NS} He walked on it and had it on his foot. {NS} What's that? {NS}
Interviewer:  What different kinds of plows did people use to have? {NS}
647:  Different what? {NS}
Interviewer:  Different kinds of plows did people use to have? {NS}
647:  They just plow the hole with their hands. {NS} You spent all the stamps eh? {NS} I don't have this. {NS} I don't want that. {NS} Tell him he can keep that. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about something that had a lot of teeth in it to break up the ground
647:  A harrow.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  Was there different kinds of harrows? {NS}
647:  No. {NS} Just a just a with the teeths on it the iron teeths. {NS}
Interviewer:  Did um {NS} People ever raise cotton or sugar cane in this area?
647:  No mm-mm mm-mm {NS} Only thing they used to raise beans snap beans. {NS} Butter bean. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Just raise thing like that. {NS} Corn. {NS} I raise chickens people don't raise that no more. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  They don't raise nothing no more. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear people talk about chopping or scrapping {NS} #1 mm-hmm #
647:  #2 cotton? # {NS} Cotton? {NS}
Interviewer:  Or sugar cane or {NS}
647:  No {NS} That's something I never did fool around is sugar cane.
Interviewer:  What does it mean to to scrape something or to chop it what is? {NS}
647:  You chop it first then you plow it make your rows up. {NS}
Interviewer:  What do you mean chop it what do you do then? {NS}
647:  Huh? You chop it with a chopper {NS} and the tractor. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What kind of grass would would grow up. {NS}
647:  What kind of grass grow here now? {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
Aux2:  There's a s-
647:  Johnson grass clovers all kind of old bad grass. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
Aux3:  Today is the eighteenth.
647:  Nothing but Johnson grass around here now. {NS} Today is eighteenth? {NS} Well {NS}
Aux3:  Cuz tomorrow the big concert {X}
647:  You going eh? {NS}
Aux2:  Today is the eighteenth. {NS} Tomorrow is nineteenth.
647:  I believe my my my watch got the go get my watch I believe my watch got the eighteenth look see.
Interviewer:  Yeah it's the eighteenth.
Aux2:  Today's the eighteenth. {NS}
647:  Look see my watch is right I think got the eighteenth look on the dresser.
Aux3:  Where it's at? {NS}
647:  Look on the dresser. {NS} I think it's the eighteenth was on it. {NS} Was it the eighteenth? {NS} That's old calendar Irma get my calendar new calendar in here. {NS} You don't see that {X} do you it's not in that it's on that it's on the {NS} look see there Irma you know where I got my watch.
Aux2:  You got the nineteenth today's the eighteenth. {NS}
647:  What it's got the nineteenth?
Aux2:  Yeah {NS} today's the eighteenth. {NS}
647:  It's too fast- {X} {NS}
Aux3:  I been writing the wrong date I had to get a seventeenth. {NS}
647:  What you make checks you make checks? {NS}
Aux3:  Seventeenth is {X} {NS}
647:  Why don't you look at you calendar so you be straight? {NS}
Aux2:  {D: Okay they about seven hours late now} {NS}
647:  Where it's at?
Aux2:  {D: pitching with y'all}
647:  Huh?
Aux2:  Back with y'all. {NS}
647:  {D: Back with who?}
Aux2:  With y'all. {NS}
647:  With y'all? {X} Oh Beth I know what you give Irma seven {D: late hours show you seven late now}
Aux3:  {D: Why she give you seven hours} {NS} {X} {NS}
647:  Quit your crying for your Irma take him. {C: baby}
Aux2:  {X}
647:  Take him Irma. {C: baby} {NS} Irma! {C: yells} {NS} Ah you're more right with your grandma than what you do with your mama huh? {C: baby}
Aux2:  {X}
647:  Huh? {NS}
Aux2:  {X}
647:  Yeah real cool. {NS} {X} That's as far as I can go I don't think I can't answer no more now. {NS}
Interviewer:  ha okay.
647:  I don't be out no no more. {NS} About a week or so. {NS} Well I got a bird a little parakeet. {NS} I don't never take my bird out of the cage take my bird out of the cage and turn it loose {NS} {D: and tell Carter} tell open the door so he can get out of here open the door. {NS} I say Glen I'm gonna take this club and I'm gonna knock you over the head with it. {NS} {D: He wasn't waving he's just} {X} I don't like him to fool with my bird. {C: vehicle}
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NS}
647:  You know you don't turn loose 'em when you get 'em out of the cage they bumping all over the walls just hitting they hurt theyself {NS} and nearly kill theyself. {NS} And I like those little birds.
Interviewer:  You still have one? {NS}
647:  Yeah {NS}
Interviewer:  {D: Can I see? }
647:  {D: Sure you can you didn't see that bird he pass in that chair.} {NS} I need a what you got to hang a cage up I keeps it on a chair a big chair. {NS} mm I got two I lost one my brother he give me that. {NS} And I lost one of 'em {NS} and I got one left. {NS} I wanted to get me another one but they so high they sell 'em for eight dollars that's too much money I can't put money like that now. {NS} Used to could get 'em for a dollar ninety-eight cent {NS} but now they eight dollar for one parakeet. {NS} I don't know. {NS} And he's just a little tiny little bitty bird go look in there. {NS} He's tiny. {NS} If he just start singing. {NS}
Interviewer:  um {NS} If you're talking about a farm you know a {NS} a large farm where they have a lot of milk cows {NS} and they sell the-
647:  They don't have that here. {NS}
Interviewer:  What do they call that? {NS}
647:  A pasture I guess. {NS}
Interviewer:  But just a large place where they have milk {NS} cows.
647:  Yeah call it a range something.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  Where would-
647:  We don't have that down here.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  They has a lot of cattle but they got 'em turned loose on the back levy back there. {NS} See that big levy back there? {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah #
647:  #2 You have # gang of cattle back there. {X} {C: vehicle} They calls it cattle on the pasture I guess. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about um {NS} where do the stores around here buy their milk from? {NS}
647:  Uh what kind of milk cow milk?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  See that milk come from Mississippi all over I think {NS} not from here.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What do they call the place that they buy it from?
647:  I don't know honey.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} um
647:  {D: I don't know.} {NS}
Interviewer:  I was thinking of a {NS}
647:  They calls it a dairy
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
647:  #2 eh # milk dairy. {NS}
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear that word dairy used to mean any thing else other besides {NS}
647:  #1 mm-mm mm-mm #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: that kind of farm} # {NS} Where um {NS} did y'all use to keep milk and butter before you had a refrigerator? {NS}
647:  Oh girl we just used to keep it inside. {NS} They didn't used to have no refrigerator a long time ago. {NS}
Interviewer:  What would you-
647:  You'd milk your cow and you'd boil it {NW} and set it in your {D: sink} or something. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  They used to have those icebox you know? {NS} What you buy the ice {NS} and uh you put the uh buy ice and put it in the icebox and then {NS} but you couldn't get no ice around here like you can now. {NS} Now you can go out the ice house and get ice down in Venice. {NS} But here you'd have to buy ice on the boat when the boat would pass you'd have to buy. {C: gets up} You had to run out to the other river {D: the Elsie} and you buy a box a hundred pound of ice {C: distant} {X} {C: moving away} {X}{C: doing dishes} {X} {NS} The storm uh {NS} Bessy took that. {NS} And in my first house I had bought {C: vehicle} {NS} I used to have bought them icebox I call them. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  What you put ice in you have to buy ice. {NS} but uh {NS} you seen here lately come out they didn't used to have all that before. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um {NS} how they keep potatoes or or turnips during the winter. {NS}
647:  I- they don't plant no turnips to keep. {NS} When they do so turn around and there was a honey they they {NS} plant plant the turnip {NS} they'd bunch 'em and bring it to the French market. {NS} But you don't see that here no more. {NS}
Interviewer:  What's the French market? {NS}
647:  In in New Orleans {NS} around Decatur street. {NS} You don't ever seen the French market? {NS}
Interviewer:  I think I know where it is. {NS} but I don't think I've ever been.
647:  Oh yeah I don't that's where they bring all kind of stuff there. {NS} Oh they bring melon {NS} potato all kind of things in the market tomato {NS} apples pear plum. {NS} All kind of thing strawberry. {NS} That's where they go and get they stuff {NS} at the French market. {NS} They used to farm here they don't farm no more. {NS} They used to plant plenty of beans around here and snap beans and {NS} butter bean and bring that to the market in truck {NS} pack it up and then bring it to the market.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  They don't do that here no more. {NS} Can't raise it no more
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What um {NS} you mentioned the snap beans {NS} is there any other name for snap beans?
647:  mm-mm {NS} Not that I know of. {NS}
Interviewer:  Green beans?
647:  They got all kind of beans there they they call them green beans you got {NS} you got all kind of snap beans you got {NS} black valentine they got companion. {NS} You got something they call refugee beans. {NS} They have all kind of beans we used to plant all kind I got {NS} golden wax bean that's a yellow bean
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  uh we don't they don't plant no more beans here {NS} you even can't get people to pick beans. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um lima beans. {NS}
647:  Oh that's uh {NS} that's a butter bean you call lima beans. {NS} You ever seen them butter bean what they call butter beans
Interviewer:  So butter beans are are
647:  Flat.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm {NS} Um that's what you call lima bean.
Interviewer:  It's the same thing butter beans and lima beans?
647:  Yeah it's the same kinda bean. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um {NS} You say he'd take the tops of turnips and cook them and make a mess of? {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS} He didn't cook the turnip top with the bottom {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  cut the bottom and the tops together and cook it. {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 What do you call it? #
647:  #2 It's good # you ever didn't eat that? {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 Oh I haven't eaten the tops yet. #
647:  #2 I don't know. # {NS} I don't know what you call it me. {NS} Just call it cooking turnip and the bottom together.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What else besides turnips do you cook? {NS}
647:  Carrots. {NS} Radish you don't cook that you just eat that like that I don't like that. {NS}
Interviewer:  You don't like that?
647:  mm-mm I don't eat no radish {NS} you just eat that raw {NS} you don't cook that.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NS}
647:  Like a salad mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  Well you talk about
647:  beats you boil that #1 uh-huh #
Interviewer:  #2 cook that #
647:  slice it up mm-hmm. {NS}
Interviewer:  Would you talk about turnip greens or turnip salad {NS} or what? {NS}
647:  Turnip green.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What other kinds of greens besides turnips?
647:  Mustard greens
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  They got um {NS} tender greens. {NS} They have um {NS} collard greens.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  That's almost like a cabbage but {NS} it just grows straight you know you cook the leaves it just make leaves.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  I don't care for that either. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um {NS} something that {NS} grows down on the ground and makes your eyes water if you cut it?
647:  Onions? {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What do you call the little ones that you {NS} you eat when they're still {NS} small?
647:  I don't know. {NS} They have little bitty onion what they puts in salad I don't know what they call it I think salad onion I guess. uh-huh
Interviewer:  What about um {NS} something you could use in a gumbo? {NS}
647:  Oysters. {NS} Shrimp.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about a k-
647:  Crab.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about a kind of vegetable? {NS}
647:  What you use what in gumbo?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Parsley? That's all I know and onion. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about okay- {NS}
647:  Okra?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  I know you can make gumbo with okra too like when you make a shrimp gumbo with crab and ham and different thing. {NS} Some people I guess put okra in but I puts file in it gumbo file. {NS}
Interviewer:  What's that is that that sassafras {NS} the file
647:  mm-mm the the {NS} The file tree {NS} is uh that's sassafras the roots.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  It's a leaf and you got to dry then you mash 'em up you beat 'em up. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um you know the tomatoes {NS} what do you call the little tomatoes that don't get any bigger than this?
647:  I don't know what they call them little tomatoes. {NS} You know one day I went to the grocery and I seen th- {NW} {NS} you know them little basket like they put strawberry? {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Saw them and I said what's that little plums? {NS} And my daughter said no that's little tomatoes and I said I ain't never did see little tomato that small.
Interviewer:  {NS} ha
647:  I never did I go and I see things that I ain't never did see like uh {NS} purple cabbage.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  The color of a eggplant like {NS} in the grocery I never did see them make them kind of cabbage before. {NS} I don't believe I could eat them.
Interviewer:  ha {NS}
647:  I don't believe I wanna no I don't believe I wanna eat that. {NS} And they got some kind of bean they call horse bean {NS} they grow long like that.
Interviewer:  What a foot? {NS} Two feet long
647:  Yeah great big old beans they make. {NS} That's more {X} people use that they tell me. {NS} We plant they come high like that the bush. {NS} and the bean be that long great big old long beans. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about if you want to get the beans out of the pot you'd say you have to?
647:  {D: Haul it. } {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} #1 And #
647:  #2 When they # dry {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  You know {NS} um talking about lettuce if you wanted to go to the store and buy some lettuce you'd ask for three? {NS}
647:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # three what? {NS}
647:  Head of lettuce. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Would you ever use that word head talking about children?
647:  hmm?
Interviewer:  Would you ever use that word head talking about children? {NS}
647:  Children? Talking about children? {NS}
Interviewer:  Say if someone had five children would you ever say he had five head of children?
647:  mm-mm {NS} Just say five children I hear them talking about five or six head of cattle but not {NS} not the children.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What about if someone had about fourteen children you'd say he really had a? {NS}
647:  A whole gang of children. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear {NS} people say a passel of children? {NS}
647:  mm-mm {NS} No we was um {NS} we was thirteen of us. {NS}
Interviewer:  Gosh.
647:  My mother had thirteen she had nineteen children {NS} and she raised thirteen. {NS} And uh {NS} last year I got two brother die we were six brothers and seven sisters we still seven sisters. {NS} Now we got four brothers. {NS} {D: This year}{C: names} five six we lost two. {NS} I lost a brother in the the twentieth of July in California he was visiting. {NS} and I lost one in New Orleans. {NS} September the thirteenth it'll be a year coming September. {NS} And when be dead a year {NS} July coming on the twentieth. {NS} {D: and right behind her.} {NS} One of 'em was seventy one with making his seventy on the fourth of July he would make him seventy. {NS} And the other one he was eighty years old. {NS} He had {NS} lost his eyes he had lost his sight. {NS} And he took sick and he died.
Interviewer:  hmm {NS}
647:  He had three children but they all was grown up children. {NS} He was married four time. {NS} He had lost three wives he had buried. {NS} And {D:name} this uh this wife buried him. {NS} He had children with first wife with his second wife third wife and he had none with his fourth wife three wife {NS} he didn't have none with her neither because she's already old. {NS} See my mother's picture up there? {NS}
Interviewer:  Oh yeah I notice that.
647:  That's my mother. {NS} She was ninety years old when she died. {NS}
Interviewer:  Gosh {NS}
647:  Used to do all her work all her scrubbing her ironing nobody couldn't iron for her {NS} neither wash. {NS} She used to wash {NS} before she got a machine she used to wash on the washboard. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  And she'd wash them clothes in two waters {NS} and she'd rise 'em in two waters
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  before she'd hang 'em up. {NS} And she'd iron our own clothes and she didn't want a wrinkle in our clothes none of 'em couldn't iron no {C: vehicle} {X} here's a mop and wax the floor with soap and everything. {C: vehicle} {NS} See nobody don't do nothing for me neither no I don't leave nobody do nothing for me. {NS} I do my own work.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NS}
647:  My mopping {NS} my washing {NS} hoeing when I was getting ready to hoe {NS} pull the side blade and mow. {NS} See my onion I got back there? {NS} I got {NS} melon plant all back there yesterday I went to clean my row of potatoes. {NS} But I got all to rise I can't wait so good it worry oh I put two weeks out there. {NS} Dragging with them all how they could pick him up oh but I was feeling bad up in here yeah. {NS} But I ain't throw none of them children {NS} Oh I'm gonna hurt me so bad I hate get up. {NS} I used to get up in the morning go feed my chicken give 'em water come back inside and clean my house up. {NS} Yesterday morning mop all up in here. {NS} This morning I pass the deck mopping here again. {NS} I don't even I don't I can't keep still. {NS}
Interviewer:  What different kinds of potatoes do you have planted? {NS}
647:  Oh you can plant the pink potatoes and the white potatoes I plant some pink potato. I didn't plant white they're just a little piece I have for myself. {C: mumbles} {NS} I can't wait like I want in no garden no more {C:mumbles} {NS} I count my own with my legs. {NS} and out there riding in my knees and out there riding in my shoulder. {NS} Sometimes I come right when I have to come my head up. {NS} I gonna be hurting so bad. {NS} Right up in there see up in {X} that
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Look like something be up in there I don't know what something be rolling up in there. {NS} I take medicine for it and I have sugar in the blood {NS} I went to the doctor twice and I ain't got no more sugar. {NS} Well I'm a diet I don't eat nothing sweet. {NS} Let me see my rice if I cook rice I have to boil it and strain it. {NS}
Interviewer:  What do you call those pink potatoes? {NS}
647:  Orange potatoes
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} #1 What oth- #
647:  #2 Just call 'em # {D: orange.} {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 What oth- #
647:  #2 Pink # orange potato. {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 What other #
647:  #2 And they got # the white orange potatoes.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What else besides orange potatoes? {NS}
647:  You got sweet potatoes. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Are there different kinds of sweet potatoes?
647:  Yeah there different kind but I don't know I know they have some white orange potatoes and they have {NS} I forgot what they call them yellows um {NS} potatoes. {NS} {D: I gone forgot more potatoes}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of yams? {NS}
647:  Yeah that's right them yam potatoes them yellow potatoes. {NS}
Interviewer:  Yellow sweet potatoes?
647:  uh-huh and they have some sweet potato. {NS} It's white inside just like orange potato you don't see that no more. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um {NS} do you know on corn {NS} the outside of the ear of corn they call that the? {NS}
647:  Corn shell? {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  #1 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  #2 What about # the stringy stuff they take off the corn?
647:  What the hair? {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  There's the hair on the corn.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And the thing that grows on the top of the corn stalk?
647:  The tassel.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  The corn tassel. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you know the kind of corn that's {NS} tender enough to eat {D: on the cob? }
647:  mm-hmm {C: vehicle} {NS} With you boil it like that its {NS} when it's tender when you {NS} when you boi- to eat you break 'em tender and going for the chicken you give 'em dry.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Do you call it sweet corn or roasting ears or? {NS}
647:  I don't know what they call it. {NS} I just call it corn me. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  They have white corn and they have yellow corn. {NS} I guess they got a name for them but I don't know. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about when it's tender enough to eat then you call it. {NS}
647:  Oh just corn.
Interviewer:  uh-huh. {NS} um {NS} What about a little {NS} yellow crooked necked vegetable. {NS}
647:  A little yellow pumpkin? A squash? uh-huh {NS} mm {NS}