647:  {X}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {NS} And uh you know I had that yeah but where they had big cattle far where they sell that well that's where they had all them kind of things you see but yeah they don't have that. {NS} {X} {C: name?} used to milk cow a long time ago. They'd milk cow in bucket and they'd milk they cow with they hands you know pull her teat. But in milk dairy they had those machines
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  and they hook some kind of s- machine to they cow and pump the milk out.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {D: yeah} {NS} You had those big can like that {X} and they have some pipes and they'd they'd put it in the machine milk the cow and fill those cans up.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm And they strain that milk with something they'd sterilize that milk and but when we'd milk cow we'd milk it with the the our hand and we strain our milk and we boil our milk. You see?
Interviewer:  Didn't the milk taste funny after you boil it?
647:  Uh-uh it was good. Boiled milk was good.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm Now you see this milk here what they buy at the {D: dairy oh-} I don't drink that milk I don't like that milk. {C: Vehicle} {NS}
Interviewer:  You don't like it?
647:  I don't know how they got {X} {C: name} to me say if you would only see how they milk them cow in the dairy say you wouldn't want to drink that milk. And that milk what they sell that ain't no pure milk no. {NS} That milk gives me {X} {D: powder power milk.} That ain't no real pure milk. {NS} Now when you milk your own cow you get some good milk but when you got buy that milk you ain't gonna have no pure milk.
Interviewer:  yeah
647:  mm-hmm {NS} That milk sour it don't clabber. It just tastes sour and be bitter {NS} stink. {NS} Now when we would milk our cow we used to make clabber milk cream cheese {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Used to be good. mm-hmm {NS} Could make your butter {NS} took your milk then take the cream out of it then make butter. {NS} But now we don't get nothing like that no more and I ain't got no more cattle.
Interviewer:  This kind of milk won't clabber?
647:  Not quick like that that not like the store bought milk. If it clabber you could eat but clabber milk but yeah you can't you can't buy any milk {X} clabber for you to eat. It ain't no good. {NS} mm can't eat that. {NS}
Interviewer:  Um you tell me about the wheel you said the the rim
647:  Hmm?
Interviewer:  You said the-
647:  A buggy wheel?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  It's an iron rim
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  it's not no uh no ain't got no uh rubber on it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  It had those spokes you know?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  You know that wooden part that the iron rim fits on?
647:  Mm I don't know the name of it I gone forgot the name of that how they call it?
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear it called a felly?
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear- What about you know in the buggy before you hitch your horse up you have to back it between the?
647:  Back the horse up between I don't know what they call that honey {X} and the horse sat in the middle of it and they sat on each side of the horse.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I forgot what they call that.
Interviewer:  {D: Did you ever hear thills or shafts or?}
647:  Shaft?
Interviewer:  Shaft-
647:  Yeah that's what they call it huh might be a shaft yeah.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  On the buggy with the horse set between it.
Interviewer:  What about the the piece of wood that they hook the traces to? {NS}
647:  mm The harness?
Interviewer:  You put you know what I mean?
647:  #1 mm #
Interviewer:  #2 the- #
647:  The cross piece?
Interviewer:  There's a piece that-
647:  When you hook a horse to uh uh
Interviewer:  That they hook-
647:  to a wagon a horse have like like britches like straps.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  And those straps you set your the side of your buggy into those straps you have straps that fit your horse and they fit back of their tail {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  and the horse is just sitting in there. And then poses his on to them uh they had rings on there and then straps onto that uh strap was across the hall.
Interviewer:  What did they call that
647:  #1 uh #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: thills with rings on it?} #
647:  I call them britches me horse britches I don't know what the name of it that's what I call it. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh Did you ever hear of a singletree or a swingletree?
647:  Oh when you're plowing singletree?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  A singletree that's for one horse
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  and the doubletree would be about that long that's for two horses.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I got one of them under the house there now.
Interviewer:  You do?
647:  Singletree from our horse yeah. mm-hmm My husband used to plow with his horse I got an old plow like that.
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
647:  #2 I have a # {D: color banner.} You need a {X} with salt water to set it up. And the handle got broken the plow got one handle on it the {D: color banner} had one handle we ain't got nothing left. {NS} He had give it to his nephew his nephew was to take it and he never did come get the {D: color banner}. {NS} The rust just added up it ain't good no more now.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You wanna see it?
Interviewer:  Yeah I'd like to see it.
647:  You wanna see how it looked like? {NS}
Interviewer:  um {NS} You know when people were gonna chop logs
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  You know they could make a frame like this and set the logs in it?
647:  yeah
Interviewer:  Do you remember what they call that?
647:  I don't know what they call it we used to my husband used make it when cut wood with a big uh two man sa- uh saw. One that one one that you know and pulling it like that and cut wood then you split it up.
Interviewer:  What-
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  what did you husband have uh if he wanted to saw a board?
647:  We had trestles I got four of um under the house there now.
Interviewer:  They cal- what did the trestles look like?
647:  mm-hmm huh? They got mm they made like this. {NS} They made like this with a a piece in the middle and two piece on the- four piece on each side on each end. {NS}
Interviewer:  For A shape frame-
647:  And put the bowl on top there and saw it
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  and you have to hold 'em both down. mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear those called a saw buck or a saw horse?
647:  mm-mm Saw horse?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  #1 and uh- #
647:  #2 what that mean? #
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  What is that?
Interviewer:  It's a- I think it's what some people call a trestle.
647:  #1 Oh yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 They call it a # horse.
647:  Oh yeah. I don't know. Who call it a horse eh?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Yeah that's what he call to what I call it a trestle.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm Yeah that's what they call it.
Interviewer:  And something you can #1 put- #
647:  #2 Them's the # same thing.
Interviewer:  uh-huh something that you could put in a pistol?
647:  What bullets?
Interviewer:  Or another name for that-
647:  A bullet what you shoot?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} or you call it a car- cart-
647:  Nah I don't know.
Interviewer:  Well-
647:  I call it bullets me.
Interviewer:  uh-huh You know with those kind of ink pens? That you you have a little ink thing that you stick in you know?
647:  The old kind of ink pen that you put down the {C: Phone ring} {X}
Interviewer:  {X}
647:  Let me see. {NS} {D: And Oima would go but Oima called and Oima was scared but} {X} call. uh-uh daughter's mill oh what you call {X} {X} {C: More Creole?} Someone will go get her.
Interviewer:  No one's going out to get her?
647:  No {NS} mm-mm Her mother didn't call nobody to go get her. I told her all right {X} go get her {X} ought to call back then my daughter
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  and um my granddaughter back at the highway and my daughter on the other side of the highway there by gree- and high house.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  They'll go get that to her house back there daughter's mill go get her if you got her a call. {X} You don't want to worry nobody {C: Vehicle} {NS} See that the while now they don't come 'til three oh clock. You talk about that a little while that's a long while. {NS}
Interviewer:  yeah {NS}
647:  You know my clock ain't no more good I need another clock.
Interviewer:  That one doesn't work?
647:  It might be though clock ain't not quite five minutes 'til ten. You think that's the right time?
Interviewer:  uh-uh
647:  What time you think it is?
Interviewer:  I don't think I got here 'til about ten I think it's more like ten-thirty or eleven.
647:  Yeah. I had a clock {D: I thought I'm} set that clock right yesterday {X} buy me another clock. I don't think {X} keep the right time. {NS}
Interviewer:  um {NS} Talking about something that you put in a pistol you say in a in a rifle or in a in a shotgun you use shells
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  in a rifle or pistol you use-
647:  I use th- I am talking about bullets me.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about cartridge?
647:  hmm?
Interviewer:  cartridge or cartridges
647:  I don't know. I don't know. {NS} I just call 'em bullets me that's all I call 'em. {NS} They might have another name for it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh You know if your hair was messed up you'd use a comb and a
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  and a what?
647:  Brush.
Interviewer:  And if you were going to use that you'd say you were going to?
647:  Brush your hair.
Interviewer:  And this is something you could use if you had to move bricks or something heavy like that its got a little wheel in the front and two handles it the back.
647:  I don't know. What that is?
Interviewer:  Well you know something if you wanted to move bricks or something.
647:  If you gonna move bricks?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Oh a wheelbarrow?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Yeah {NS} I know what you is talking about. mm a wheelbarrow. {NS}
Interviewer:  What would people use to sharpen a um a straight razor on?
647:  A razor strap a strap. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about something you'd sharpen a little knife on?
647:  A stone?
Interviewer:  mm-hmm What kind of stone?
647:  I don't know I just call it a stone me.
Interviewer:  What about something big that you'd sha-
647:  You mean a grindstone which you turn?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Grindstone you call it.
Interviewer:  And um something that children play on they take a board and it-
647:  seesaw
Interviewer:  uh-huh If you saw some children playing on that you'd say they were-
647:  seesawing.
Interviewer:  What about if they take the board and fix it down at both ends and children would jump on it? Did you ever see something like that?
647:  mm-mm where they jump in the water?
Interviewer:  No it they just jump up and down on it.
647:  Oh yeah I never did see nothing like that.
Interviewer:  What about something that they'd fix down the middle and it would spin around and around?
647:  Oh I I've seen that but I don't know about what they call it. It's a board that go round and round when it go. {NS} Merry-go-round they call that.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And you tie a long rope to a tree limb and put
647:  jump rope
Interviewer:  and put a seat on it.
647:  A swing.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  and um {NS} So say if something was squeaking to lubricate it you'd say you had to do what to it?
647:  If something was squeaking
Interviewer:  uh-huh Like the wagon wheel
647:  #1 oh yeah #
Interviewer:  #2 you'd have to #
647:  put oil on it.
Interviewer:  or if you didn't put oil on it.
647:  Then it'll stay squeaking.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  #1 mm- #
Interviewer:  #2 Well # this hard stuff you could put on it.
647:  A- Axle grease
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  So you'd say um that's squeaking you'd better-
647:  Put axle grease on it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  yeah
Interviewer:  and To keep eggs from sticking to your pan what's the first thing you do before you cook you have to?
647:  ah- when the grease get hot and it won't stick on the pan.
Interviewer:  uh-huh you have to do what to the pan?
647:  I don't know I just put the pan on and leave it get hot me.
Interviewer:  Well to keep things from sticking when you're say when you're baking a cake?
647:  Oh you grease your pan.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  and you'd say um Yesterday he {NS} what? If he did that to a car you'd say yesterday he?
647:  If you did what to a car?
Interviewer:  If you put this grease on it you'd say yester-
647:  Well yesterday uh you greased it you oiled it something. mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And if you got grease all over your hands you'd say your hands were all?
647:  All greasy? {NS} mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And inside the tire of the car you have the inner-
647:  Inner tube?
Interviewer:  And what do people use to burn in lamps?
647:  Kerosene.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What else do they call that?
647:  Some of them used to call it curl harbor its called the proper way is kerosene.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Did you ever see people make a lamp themselves using a rag and a bottle and some kerosene?
647:  No Make a lamp?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  No you?
Interviewer:  Did they take the- {NS} the bottle and they fill it with kerosene and they twist a rag down in it.
647:  Oh yeah and they can use that?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Doesn't it uh uh they explodes eh?
Interviewer:  Well if they had the rag in tight enough if- if the rag fell in it explodes.
647:  Oh yeah I never did see that. {NS}
Interviewer:  What um- say if someone had just built a boat and they were gonna put it in the water for the first time you'd say they were going to?
647:  They {X} the boat and then put it out. Paint it and then put it out in the water.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What different kinds of boats do people have around here?
647:  mm There's the little log boat {D: mode} and there's big boats. There's big boaters here.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  There's skiffs with other boat in the water.
Interviewer:  What does a skiff look like? {NS}
647:  A skiff is I don't know what it's made of. It's it ain't got no top on it no more you know? {NS} You got a skiff Mr. and Ms. May got a skiff {X} I can't explain how a skiff is made.
Interviewer:  Is it pointed or flat at the-
647:  In the front it's pointed. One end is pointed one end pointed it makes end it makes square.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about something that's just one person can get in?
647:  Pirogue.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of something called a bathtub?
647:  Bathtub?
Interviewer:  Bathtub the kind of boat they call a bathtub?
647:  I don't know. I don't know honey maybe may- they might call 'em like that I don't know.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 You haven't heard that # around here though?
647:  uh-uh I don't know too much about no boat. I don't know too much about boats.
Interviewer:  And say if a child was just learning to dress himself- {NS} the mother brings him the clothes and tells him {X} she hands it too him and says here- {C: Vehicle}
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  your clothes here. how-
647:  your clothes on.
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  Dress yourself?
Interviewer:  Whats as she hands him the clothes she says here.
647:  Here are your clothes for you to dress yourself?
Interviewer:  Okay and If you were taking a child to the dentist and the dentist and the the child was scared the dentist might tell him you don't need to be scared I?
647:  Ain't gonna hurt you.
Interviewer:  And say if I ask you was that you I saw in town yesterday? You might say no it?
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  I didn't go into town so it what?
647:  You seen someone else.
Interviewer:  uh-huh but it?
647:  Wasn't me.
Interviewer:  And if a woman wanted to buy a dress of a certain color she'd take along a little square of cloth to use as a?
647:  A sample.
Interviewer:  And if she sees a dress that she likes a lot she'd say the dress was very?
647:  Pretty.
Interviewer:  Or even better than that she'd say it was just? {NS}
647:  I don't know. {C: mumbles} {NS}
Interviewer:  If she really likes it she'd say the dress was just? {NS}
647:  mm
Interviewer:  just beau-
647:  Beautiful?
Interviewer:  And something you'd wear over your dress in the kitchen?
647:  Apron.
Interviewer:  And to sign your name in ink you'd use a? {NS}
647:  Ink pen? {NS}
Interviewer:  And to hold a babies diaper in place? {NS}
647:  Safety pin.
Interviewer:  And you say a dime is worth?
647:  A dime?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Is what?
Interviewer:  is worth- How much? {NS}
647:  I don't know {C: mumbles} a dime is just worth a dime that's all.
Interviewer:  Or another way of saying that it's worth?
647:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  ten-
647:  Ten cent.
Interviewer:  and If it was real cold before you went outside you'd put on your?
647:  Your coat. A sweater.
Interviewer:  And if you were outside and you were getting cold and you wanted your coat you'd ask someone would you run inside and-
647:  And fetch my coat for me.
Interviewer:  and what it out to me and-
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  How would you say that?
647:  What? Run inside and get my coat.
Interviewer:  and what it to me?
647:  Bring it to me.
Interviewer:  Okay so you say so then he went in- inside and he what it to me- he got my coat and he?
647:  mm hand it to me?
Interviewer:  Or he what it out to me?
647:  uh he gived it to me something like that
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And What would a man wear to church on Sunday?
647:  What he wear?
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  His suit.
Interviewer:  And if he just bought it it would be a brand? {NS}
647:  Brand new suit?
Interviewer:  and did you remember when they had the three piece suit? {NS}
647:  A vest and a coat and uh and a pant.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
647:  #2 You can # get it like that now if you want. {NS}
Interviewer:  You can?
647:  Yeah sure you can buy a vest. But people don't worry some people buy uh buy a vest too.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Any other name for pants?
647:  mm-mm not that I know of.
Interviewer:  What about something that a man would wear if he was working out around the barn? {NS}
647:  Overall. {C: Vehicle}
Interviewer:  huh? {C: Vehicle}
647:  Overall. {C: Vehicle}
Interviewer:  uh-huh And you say that coat won't fit this year but last year it- what perfectly last year it?
647:  It fit?
Interviewer:  And if you stuff a lot of things in your pockets you say it makes them?
647:  Make holes in your pockets.
Interviewer:  Or it makes 'em stick out
647:  #1 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  #2 you say it makes #
647:  #1 yeah #
Interviewer:  #2 them # makes them do what?
647:  I don't know me. Make 'em stick out or something. In purses pocket put many things in.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Say if a woman um {NS} Likes to put on good clothes you say she likes to?
647:  She likes to dress.
Interviewer:  Would you say that about a man?
647:  Men likes to dress too. uh-huh
Interviewer:  What if she likes to stand in front of the mirror and
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  you say she likes to?
647:  She likes to stand in front of the mirror. I had a son I had a son and he uh was gone in a way he'd be just like a lady. {NS} He'd get in front of me and I had to glass the armoire the armoire those with glass {D: you talking about a} top down. If he buy a pair of shoe he'd try 'em on and get in front of the mirror and look down at his self he'd turn around to the back and
Interviewer:  {NW}
647:  anything he'd buy and he's using that mirror. He'd powder his face like a lady take that he'd powder his self all over. My husband used to tell him you just like a woman you are never seen a man like you like you be putting powder like that you just like a woman. {C: Vehicle}
Interviewer:  {NW}
647:  Yeah sure he used to like to be in a mirror and fix hisself up.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  He don't stay down here no more he stay in town now.
Interviewer:  If a woman likes to do that um you know put on make up and
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  everything you say she likes?
647:  She likes to fix herself up #1 pretty. #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh # Do you ever hear people say she likes to doll up or she likes to primp?
647:  mm like to prince up yeah.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Would you say that about a man? {NS}
647:  I guess so. {NW} {NS}
Interviewer:  What would you call a man like that that likes to dress up a lot.
647:  Just a just a man like to be fixed up he particular with his self that's all. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh You ever them called a jelly-bean?
647:  mm-mm {NS}
Interviewer:  And something that um people use to carry their money in they call that a?
647:  A wallet.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And what would you carry nowadays?
647:  hmm?
Interviewer:  What would you carry now?
647:  What would who carry?
Interviewer:  What would you carry your money in?
647:  Me?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  A pu- uh {C: Vehicle} {NS} What they call 'em? {C: Vehicle} {NS} A purse.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And you say that shirt used to fit me until I washed it and it?
647:  And you spoiled it.
Interviewer:  Because the shirt did what? {NS}
647:  I don't know ruined it or something spoiled it something #1 ruined it by water. #
Interviewer:  #2 Well if the shirt # got smaller you say it?
647:  Oh it shrinked eh?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And every shirt I've washed recently has done what?
647:  What's that with you what you saying?
Interviewer:  Every shirt I've washed has
647:  oh I don't know. {X} You can't wash shirt without shri- without shrinking them eh?
Interviewer:  Well If you washed it it did you say every shirt I've washed has done?
647:  They shrink up.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And something that a woman a piece of jewelry a woman would wear around her wrist?
647:  Bracelet?
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about something she'd wear around her neck?
647:  um {NS} I forgot what they call it. I forgot what they call it. A locket?
Interviewer:  uh-huh Well say if you talk about beads you call that a- what with beads?
647:  I just call them beads me.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you ever hear a string of beads or #1 pair of beads? #
647:  #2 Oh yeah # mm-hmm Prayer beads.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That what you saying?
Interviewer:  No a pair of beads
647:  #1 oh yeah mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  #2 or a string of beads. #
647:  yeah
Interviewer:  What's that?
647:  That's beads what you wear on your neck.
Interviewer:  uh-huh what did they call it? {NS}
647:  Beads that's all I call it me.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about something that men used to wear to hold up their pants?
647:  Belts?
Interviewer:  or
647:  Suspenders. #1 ha #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh # {NS} And something you could hold over you when it rains.
647:  Umbrella?
Interviewer:  And the last thing that you put on a bed you know the fancy cover?
647:  A spread?
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about something that people used to make?
647:  Quilts?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh do you ever make those?
647:  Oh yeah. There's two that I made mm-hmm. I don't make no blocks though. I buy the material and sew it up together and cov- and make my quilts with but I don't make no quilt blocks. Nah I can't no patient with that I made one quilt with blocks. It was a sail boat it was pretty. Then I started me a fan and made like a fan.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I made a ways and I thought now I'll give it to my sister.
Interviewer:  ha
647:  Now my da- my daughter was here yesterday and my oldest daughter she makes quilt blocks but not me. I don't fool with that I buy the material buy the yarn make that seam straight put the pieces on each side of it. And make them quilt and let 'em {X} piece of rags together.
Interviewer:  {NW}
647:  Too slow {NS} {D: I don't like nothing look go} slow. {C: Bump} {D: Oh it never would nothing go slow.} I ain't go- ge- do things in a hurry.
Interviewer:  yeah
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  And at the head of the bed you put your head on a?
647:  Pillow.
Interviewer:  Do you remember anything about twice as long as a pillow?
647:  A bolster?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Yeah you don't see that no more. They don't make that no more.
Interviewer:  How far across the bed did they go?
647:  clean across.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Just across the bed. They be made round about that big. {NS} You put that on to dress your bed. But now you use the pillow I use pillow I hadn't had me a bolster a long time ago. It was when I first got married. and I ain't made {X} using pillows on my bed. Pillows what I see by {X} see all them pillows there on my bed? There's not enough pillows over that spread.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Say if you had a lot of company and didn't have enough beds for everyone {NS} for the children to sleep on
647:  On the floor.
Interviewer:  What was your name for it?
647:  Take a mattress off the the bed
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That's all I'd do take a mattress of the bed and sle- sleep on the box spring and put the mattress on the floor.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Oh I done that so many time yeah.
Interviewer:  What would you call that?
647:  I'll make a pad on the floor.
Interviewer:  A what?
647:  Pad on the floor.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And um say if you were talking about um corn say you'd say we- this year we raised a big?
647:  Crop of corn.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And the corn would grow out in the?
647:  In the field.
Interviewer:  uh-huh and you say we expect to get a big crop from that field because the soil there is very?
647:  The what?
Interviewer:  The soil is very?
647:  Oh rich rich soil.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What different kinds of soil?
647:  What different kind of soil?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Oh I don't know I don't know. You got good soil and you got bad soil and things you plant and good soil isn't that good when the soil ain't good don't {X} good.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Me I use fertilizer. #1 um #
Interviewer:  #2 What di- # Did you ever hear of a soil called loam or loom?
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  What about that real sticky kind of soil?
647:  Oh an old black soil stick to your foot that's some bad soil there.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  I don't know what they call it.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of black jack or gumbo?
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  What about um the kind of land this kind of flat it's next to a river.
647:  Sand?
Interviewer:  The kind of land
647:  Next to the river?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You call that the sand.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Well I mean did you ever hear of a lowlands or bottomland or
647:  #1 mm-mm #
Interviewer:  #2 bottoms? #
647:  No.
Interviewer:  What about uh a field that may be good for raising hay but not much else? You call that a hay
647:  I don't know honey I don't know. Cuz they don't have that here where {D: we landscape. }
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you ever hear of a prairie or meadow?
647:  Oh yeah a prairie that's out back on- that's in the marshland. You don't plant nothing back there nothing in them in the prairie.
Interviewer:  What does it look like?
647:  Just the land full of water.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Water on the on the land.
Interviewer:  Is the marsh land is anything growing in the marshland?
647:  Mm-mm nothing. Sometimes grass would grow there sometimes.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  But there not no grass nothing in the marshland.
Interviewer:  Is is salt water or freshwater?
647:  Must be salt water I don't never go back there must be salt water yeah.
Interviewer:  What about where you have um water standing on some land um but you've got trees there growing there.
647:  You don't let land trees grow though. It's uh on the flat the river and willow trees willows what {X}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  willow trees.
Interviewer:  Well what about that real a wet sort of place? um Say if you wanted to go hunting where would you go hunting around here?
647:  In the marshland back there in the marsh. Prairie they call it. They call it the prairie. But they go hunting most of the down the river than what they do here cuz there ain't no hunting around here.
Interviewer:  {NW}
647:  Ain't got nothing down on on that end but down the river.
Interviewer:  What else besides the marsh do you have?
647:  mm?
Interviewer:  What about something that looks kind of like a marsh only it has trees growing in it?
647:  I don't know I ain't never seen that like.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a swamp or swamp?
647:  Yeah I hear talk about swamp. {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} What's that like? {NS}
647:  There's nothing but trees in the water. {C: Knocking} Who is this?
Aux1:  Earl.
647:  Come in. {NS} folks they be going. They don't know what they going to do their families going to starve. {NS} Sure this is no good time here.
Interviewer:  And say if they cut out those?
647:  Closing the bayous yeah.
Interviewer:  Why are they going to close the bayous?
647:  I don't know they want to stop them from shrimping on the #1 inside. #
Interviewer:  #2 oh yeah #
647:  You see? They have to go in deep water and to go in deep water you need big boats.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Big boat you can't go in deep water little boat cuz it'll get downed they got to have big boat until everybody's able to buy them big boat and big boat cost so much of money. See? Big boat cost money. I don't know what they going to do. See me I ain't worried me cuz I know I'm gonna make it.
Interviewer:  yeah You made it #1 so far. #
647:  #2 That's right. # That's right. I made it this far I know I'm gonna make it I tell 'em I'm going to make it me. Cuz I ain't I ain't particular in what I eat I ain't particular in cuz I like to wear you know good clothes.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  But my stomach come first.
Interviewer:  yeah
647:  Yeah stomach come first.
Aux2:  {NW}
647:  Bring it here baby. {NS} That's my little great grandson there. {C: Door closes}
Interviewer:  {NW}
647:  {C: Door} The bad thing.
Interviewer:  {NW} {NS}
647:  He gonna follow his grandpa now. All of my children have grandchildren except for one. The baby boy.
Interviewer:  Say if you had some land that was swampy and you wanted to get the water off the land {NS} what would you say you were going to do to it?
647:  Nothing to do to it honey but leave swampy land there. Like the land out back there outside the canal
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  can't do nothing with that but leave it there.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  You even can't put cattle on it. Can't put nothing on it. It's just a marsh land and you can't do nothing with it.
Interviewer:  Well if they get the water off #1 the this #
647:  #2 even the #
Interviewer:  #1 #
647:  #2 #
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
647:  #2 Yeah buy how? # How they gonna get the water off?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  No way of getting the water off. No way of getting the water off that marsh land back there.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm I mean the water stay on it. They used to have willow trees grow back there they ain't got no more trees grow no more there. All dead all of 'em died. You got nothing that was clean.
Interviewer:  Cuz of too much water there?
647:  I don't know I don't know what the cause of it nobody know what the cause of it. Our {X} used to be full of trees out there But then they bulldozed those trees down to make the levy bigger a long time ago the trees ain't never did grow back. They even planted trees out there but they didn't grow. That would help the levy you see save the levy. {X} let the levy out. They raising the levy up there going down for the water. See me I don't leave nothing worry me. Needed a high river and nothing else I ain't leaving it worry me. I don't worry about nothing. Everything gone up you had to pay a dime som- for five pound of flour. dollar and thirteen cent will get you a dollar fourteen cent {X} for five pound of flour. Used to get that for forty-nine cent thirty-five cents. And meat ah that's gone up sky high.
Interviewer:  Say um if you had a if it had rained and the water it cut out a little thing like this you'd say?
647:  mm
Interviewer:  You'd call that thing a?
647:  A little creek.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What about something they have along the side of the road um to carry the water off?
647:  A ditch they call it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh #1 What about some- #
647:  #2 That's # supposed to be a ditch out there but that ain't no ditch out there them people got there.
Interviewer:  {NW}
647:  Ditch be dug deeper than that.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about something deep much deeper than a ditch where the water is washed out of a big area.
647:  Oh I don't know what to call them {D: corn I guess.}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {D: Do you ever hear of a gully or a holla or a wash?}
647:  A what golly?
Interviewer:  Gully
647:  I don't know that gutters? Gutter on a house?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm I got gutter on my house there now.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I ain't through putting gutters I don't know piec- I don't I ain't putting none in the front. I got one piece to put in the back there I asked my son to put it up. Keep on forgetting about it strap put my gutter I got a strap what you put it together and I keep forgetting I need two straps. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I gonna keep forgetting about my gutter just when it go to rain and the rain fall all over my step I think about the gutter.
Interviewer:  {NW}
647:  #1 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  #2 Say if you were um # uh cooking something {NS} in a lot of water and you wanted to get the water out.
647:  You just leave it boil out or you throw it out.
Interviewer:  Or you'd you'd
647:  Throw it out
Interviewer:  #1 Turn it up and and #
647:  #2 yeah mm-hmm. # If you got too much water throw it out.
Interviewer:  uh-huh would you say you were draining it or draining it or?
647:  mm-hmm Draining the water out of it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  This you mentioned a canal is that something that people dig or does that?
647:  #1 A canal? #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # uh-huh
647:  Canal is uh is big.
Interviewer:  Is do people dig it or does it?
647:  uh-uh dig by drag boat nobody can dig no canal.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm yep send a drag boat dig canal.
Interviewer:  It's big enough for a big boat to go through there?
647:  Oh a good sized boat can go through. A good sized skiff but not a big boat.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm
Interviewer:  What about a bayou.
647:  Oh by anything can go in a bayou.
Interviewer:  Except not a big boat.
647:  Except a ship.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Can't go in that. {NS} Some of them big enough for deep enough for a tug boat to be in.
Interviewer:  How much how much water does a tug boat need? It doesn't look like it's deep at all.
647:  A tug boat don't need that deep I don't believe they need much water for a tug boat some of them maybe. There's some big big tugboat and there's small. There good sized boat passing that canal back there but not the inside canal nor the outside canal.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  They got two canal that levy set between two canal back there.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm I ain't never did see the outer canal what they dug back there. Cuz uh you got to cross and uh {NS} they ain't got nothing to cross with you see?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You got a canal to cross to go see the over the levy to see the other canal.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I ain't never did see the last canal they made back there {NS} mm-mm
Interviewer:  This you mentioned a creek what's the difference between the creek and the bayou? {NS}
647:  Well the creek that's just a little bit of place where the water done cut and run in you see?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  A bayou is a big {NS} a bayou is a big big place.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  There have some little bayous and they have big bayous.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {X} in bayou {C: yawning} {X} {C: yawning} {NS}
Interviewer:  What are the names of some of the creeks or bayous? #1 {X} #
647:  #2 What the name of them? #
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Well I don't honey I don't know. You'd ask my son he can tell you the name of all the bayous and creeks back there. But me I don't know I really don't know.
Interviewer:  What about where you were growing up?
647:  Oh where I was growing up I don't know nothing about the bayous there.
Interviewer:  {NW}
647:  I don't know a thing about the bayous I never did go in a bayou 'til after I was married.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Went in bayous with my husband across the river.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  #1 and I rode me with him #
Interviewer:  #2 Which was- #
647:  when we was living on the other side of the river.
Interviewer:  What's the name of this river? {NS}
647:  The Mississippi River.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {D: It's a very Mississippi River.} mm-hmm We used to go cross the river we used to go across the river in a skiff you know.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Pulling the oars like this. And uh {NS} now you don't see that no more nobody got no skiff to go across the river.
Interviewer:  Is that current very strong?
647:  Yeah the current and when the river high {NW} you gotta start cross here and when you hook you might be way down the road or something like that you have to pull up on the other side. Is the current strong in that river when the river high. Now when it's low it ain't got no current not too much.
Interviewer:  Is it low now?
647:  No indeed the river high.
Interviewer:  It doesn't look like it's that strong.
647:  Eh?
Interviewer:  It doesn't look strong to me.
647:  What the current?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Cuz you on the land that's why. But you get in there in a skiff and you find out.
Interviewer:  {C: Laughing}
647:  Not even a big boat not in a gasoline but in a pulling skiff
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  you get in there and you see where you going to be at when you get back.
Interviewer:  {NW}
647:  You might start here and end up way down there.
Interviewer:  I guess nobody tries to swim in there huh?
647:  Oh the children in the summer time. The children get out there and swim in the river but they don't go way out you know. It's dangerous swimming in that river. They tell me they gonna they gonna drive a canal around there some day soon but I ain't never hear nothing no more about it. {D: Gonna draw it down the ways somewhere in the canal.} My little grandson almost fell in there.
Interviewer:  huh
647:  Some little bit of boat he was in. {NS}
Interviewer:  Um say if you have a a screen the water is flowing along suddenly it drops off and goes on over. You call that a?
647:  Running over?
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of pour over or waterfall?
647:  Pearl Pearl River
Interviewer:  Or pour over or waterfalls.
647:  I don't know me. #1 I don't know what you're talking about. #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh # What's the Pearl River where's that?
647:  That's in Mississippi that's in Mississippi if you're talking about Pearl River.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  But yeah this is uh a different river from Pearl River. It flow down they call it the Gulf of Mexico.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  It come into there from the sea. They come in but going out they go into the Gulf. They be in the river Mexico river and go into the Gulf.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Gulf of Mexico.
Interviewer:  What about a place where the boats could stop and they could unload?
647:  Well they're not I don't think they have it down here. They have it up around Ostrica they do all that over there at Ostrica.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  But up in Buras around Buras it has a wharf in Buras and uh {NS} both ships stops up there.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Stop on the other side of the river and load up with all of it and they go back go back to the gulf with it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm They talking about building up um wharf down here somewhere in Venice where the boat the ships to load up
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  but I don't know when that gonna be. {NS}
Interviewer:  You know if if the land goes up like this you have a little rise in land. You'd call that a?
647:  Except where the land don't go up here.
Interviewer:  Well
647:  #1 The land #
Interviewer:  #2 if #
647:  downward it not up.
Interviewer:  uh-huh But just a small rise in land-
647:  But the land here they say it's below sea level. It's more low than what the water there.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  The land here there's no rising for this land here that's #1 for sure. #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh #
647:  Now if you go up in Mississippi and Alabama all that they have hills they tell me I ain't never did go that far.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  The furthest up {C: yawning} {X} Baton Rouge {X} {NS} {X} school in Baton Rouge
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  and I went to um Morgan City with my daughter. It's been a long time {X} people in the city.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Say if you wanted to open the door and you take hold of the door?
647:  Kit and open the door.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you ever hear of a knob as being something like a hill?
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  What about something a whole lot bigger than a hill? They'd call that a?
647:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  You know something really big they wouldn't have it in this area.
647:  Mountains?
Interviewer:  uh-huh #1 And do you kno- #
647:  #2 Some # different places going up north have them mountains.
Interviewer:  uh-huh You know the rocky side of the mountain that drops off real sharp.
647:  mm-mm Never been on no mountains. I seen they show 'em on television but I ain't never been around them.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What different kinds of roads are there around here?
647:  Different kind of roads?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I ain't know noth- about different kind of road but they call this here the road let me see they call this road a service road in front here.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  And back behind is out back with a highway they call it a four ways uh four ways drive road. They got four ways road out back there.
Interviewer:  What do you mean a four ways road?
647:  Eh?
Interviewer:  What do you mean?
647:  It's a four way {NS} where they goes down on one side they go up.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  On the right side they go up. The left hand side they go down. You see we got two road back there.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You got one on this side and one on the other side. And one on the one on this side you got one on this side goes up and one on this side to go down. On this side they go up on this side on the other half of the road they goes up. And then they have some turn out if you're going if you're going down you got um {NS} places you turn out. {X} for down.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  And on the other side of the road one side going down and one side going up. {NS} They call that a four way drive road.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  And this one here they call that a service road just don't go all the way up.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  This was a place they called Dead Man Lane up there.
Interviewer:  They called dead?
647:  Dead Man Lane yeah. Dead Man Lane and it go it goes far as the service road round far as Dead Man Lane. Then you catch Dead Lane Man uh Lane and catch the main road
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  go up or down. {NS}
Interviewer:  Why's it called Dead Man Lane?
647:  I don't know. I don't know.
Interviewer:  What is a lane?
647:  You see like this right away I got here by my place
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  well that's what they call it.
Interviewer:  It's just a small road?
647:  Yeah just a small road.
Interviewer:  Doesn't have anything on either side.
647:  They got pave they got pave on it but it's uh yeah Dead Man Lane is paved.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  just like back there.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Yeah but it's a {X} You want to come to the front here and come to front road on and be over to the back where you can go to the back road on.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That's all {X} run from road to road.
Interviewer:  What do you call the white hard paved roads?
647:  What you call it?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh with that white stuff on top.
647:  That's paved in front just black top.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What is-
647:  Out back it's paved road.
Interviewer:  What do they um make the blacktop out of.
647:  Tar.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That made out of tar.
Interviewer:  And
647:  Tar and some kind of other stuff when they put that down there there's there's hot there's hot hot hot.
Interviewer:  mm
647:  And they pass roll on it while it's as hot cuz if you leave it get cool you can't do nothing with it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  While it's as hot though {C: Dog barking} they try to big try to with a roller they rolling it down flatten it down uh-huh. And you can't stand your feet on that neither when it's like that down.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  It be well and hot. {C: Dog} mm-hmm {C: Dog}
Interviewer:  What about if they don't pave a road?
647:  That just be a mud road.
Interviewer:  Or if they put little
647:  Or if they black top it or or if they don't put nothing on it they put {C: Dog} the road before had just shell you see that my rattle we got back on back there. It use just used to be shells then they pave it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  {C: Dog} What about uh uh Something uh along the side of the street for people to walk on?
647:  um They call it a shoulder the road.
Interviewer:  No in town something along the side of the street.
647:  Oh the banquette?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm a banquette. They calls it a banquette.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Do they still call it that?
647:  Yeah they still call it that. {NS} Nothing where the cars pass is the street and where the people pass is the banquette.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm Yeah they still call it that.
Interviewer:  Say if um if you're walking along the road and an animal jumps out and scares you you say I picked up a
647:  Who's gonna pick up any- you ain't nothing to pick up.
Interviewer:  uh Something hard you say I picked up a
647:  A stone or something?
Interviewer:  and I
647:  Pitched it at him.
Interviewer:  mm-kay and If you went to someones house and knocked on the door and nobody answered you say well I guess he's not?
647:  Not home.
Interviewer:  And if someone is walking in your direction you say he's coming straight?
647:  mm in my direction?
Interviewer:  he's walking straight
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  what me?
647:  Towards me yeah.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And if you went into town and happened to see someone you hadn't counted on seeing you'd say this morning I just happened to run
647:  Run across one I wasn't expecting to see.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Say if a a little girl is given the same name that her mother has you say they named the girl?
647:  After the mother.
Interviewer:  And something that people drink for breakfast?
647:  What milk? Coffee?
Interviewer:  uh-huh Say if if you wanted some coffee but there weren't any ready you'd say I guess I have to go?
647:  Make some.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And talking about putting milk in your coffee you'd say some people like it?
647:  Some people like milk and some don't.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Some people like their coffee
647:  With plenty of milk
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
647:  #2 and # some of 'em don't.
Interviewer:  #1 What do you #
647:  #2 Some # like it black and some like plenty of milk.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What do you call coffee that doesn't have milk in it? Besid-
647:  Black coffee.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of people say drinking coffee barefooted?
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  Or black coffee? {NS}
647:  No I'm you say I'm gonna drink it black I don't use no milk.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  You say most uh Some people will eat cornflakes dry but most people like
647:  Like milk in.
Interviewer:  uh-huh most people like them how?
647:  With milk.
Interviewer:  uh-huh #1 And you tell #
647:  #2 Milk # and sugar.
Interviewer:  uh-huh You tell a child now you can eat what's put before you or you can do
647:  Do without.
Interviewer:  mm-kay
647:  hmm
Interviewer:  And You'd say this morning I what breakfast at seven-oh clock?
647:  mm-hmm Fix you some grits and butter uh grits and uh bacon and eggs and they don't want that well.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  Nothing you can do for 'em unless you give 'em some cereal.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  And sometimes they don't want that.
Interviewer:  But if they did want it you'd say well he finally?
647:  Finally make up his mind to eat it.
Interviewer:  And so then he
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  He went ahead and
647:  Yeah
Interviewer:  What did he do?
647:  Do without {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {C: Vehicle} {NS}
647:  You don't want it you do without it that's all. {C: Vehicle} {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {C: Vehicle} {NS} You say I
647:  #1 hmm? #
Interviewer:  #2 I got # up at about six-oh clock this morning.
647:  And fix you breakfast.
Interviewer:  And then I sat down and I I fixed it then I sat down and?
647:  Relaxed?
Interviewer:  uh-huh And something that is made out of corn it's kind of like grits #1 only #
647:  #2 The # cornmeal.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You got cornmeal and you got cream of wheat.
Interviewer:  What about something where they grind the corn up coarsely?
647:  #1 I don't know. #
Interviewer:  #2 Do you ever hear of lye corn or hominy? #
647:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 #
647:  Yeah I hear talk of that. You ever ate that?
Interviewer:  Why's that?
647:  Corn hominy corn you cook it.
Interviewer:  I haven't.
647:  It's kind of big cross big corn is crack corn like.
Interviewer:  huh
647:  Oh I had seen that when I was smaller I wouldn't know how you fix it no more now.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I forgot a lot of things I done forgot you get old and you forget the.
Interviewer:  Yeah
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Say if you were real thirsty you might say I went over to the sink and I poured myself a?
647:  Glass of water.
Interviewer:  And you say the glass fell off the sink and?
647:  Broke.
Interviewer:  So somebody has done what to the glass somebody has?
647:  mm I don't know.
Interviewer:  Well you say that glass has been?
647:  It was dirty?
Interviewer:  Or it's it's someone dropped it so now it's what?
647:  Broke? Cracked?
Interviewer:  And if you were real thirsty you might say I what a glass of water?
647:  Do what you say?
Interviewer:  If you were thirsty you'd say I?
647:  Drank the glass of water.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And you'd ask me how much water have you?
647:  Drank?
Interviewer:  And You know when you're plowing
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  you know the the things that the plow cuts you call those?
647:  The mud?
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  The mud.
Interviewer:  What? Well I mean the ditches sort of you call that the?
647:  A ditch.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You can't make no ditch with no plow.
Interviewer:  Well you know it goes up-
647:  Make they're for making rows.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  You know when you're plowing
647:  Yeah and you making rows to plant things on.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  When you're plowing with two horses What do you call the one that walks in the furrow?
647:  I don't know you uh you hardly can plow make no rows with two horses you got to use one horse I believe.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you ever hear people talk about an off horse or a nigh-horse
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  or lead horse?
647:  mm-mm I didn't.
Interviewer:  When you're plowing with the horse what do you have to guide him with?
647:  There plow line on each side.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {C: Vehicle}
Interviewer:  What about when you're riding on him? {NS}
647:  You got to have a bridle. A stiff bit
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  they call it.
Interviewer:  Or you you hold the
647:  mm-hmm the stiff bit
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you have lines when you're plowin- when you're riding him or
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  reigns or?
647:  You got a stiff bit and you got a strap on it that you hold.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What do you put your feet in?
647:  The saddle the strap on the saddle.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Or there's a little thing that you you put your feet in you call that?
647:  I don't know what you call honey. I don't know what you call it. I don't know the name of it but I know it's on the saddle.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  You might tell someone well I don't know exactly how far away it is but it's just a
647:  A few miles.
Interviewer:  Or just a little
647:  About a half a mile a half a {D: league} or something like that.
Interviewer:  uh-huh You say he lives just a little what down the road just a little?
647:  Just a little piece down the road?
Interviewer:  uh-huh And if you had been traveling and you still had about {NS} five-hundred miles to go you'd say you still had a?
647:  A long ways to go.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And if something was real common and you didn't have to look for it in a special place you'd say oh you can find that just about?
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  just about
647:  Yeah {X} You can find it yourself just by walking and looking.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {X}
647:  I asked somebody or asked someone somebody for it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Or you can find that just about any-
647:  Anywhere?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And if someone slipped on the ice and fell this way you say you fell over?
647:  Fell over on the ice.
Interviewer:  Or he fell in this direction you say he fell over?
647:  Backwards
Interviewer:  And this way?
647:  Frontwards?
Interviewer:  And if you had been fishing and I ask you if you had caught any fish you might say no?
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What a one no
647:  No I didn't catch no fish today.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you ever say nary one?
647:  Huh?
Interviewer:  Do you ever say I didn't catch nary one?
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  How would you say that?
647:  I didn't catch nary on- nary a fish today.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And if you got rid of all the brush and trees on your land you say you did what to the land?
647:  Clean the land up.
Interviewer:  And you say wheat is tied up into a
647:  Wheat?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I don't know what tied up wheat up I never did made grow no wheat.
Interviewer:  What about fodder?
647:  hmm?
Interviewer:  Did you ever pull fodder?
647:  What that is?
Interviewer:  The corn?
647:  Oh corn no
Interviewer:  ha {NS}
647:  uh-uh {NS}
Interviewer:  Talking about {NS} how much wheat you got to an acre {C: Vehicle} {NS} you might say{C: Vehicle} {NS} we raised forty {C: Vehicle} {NS}
647:  Forty what forty {X}
Interviewer:  We're talking talking about a bushel you'd say we raised forty?
647:  Forty bushels?
Interviewer:  And what do you do with oats to separate the grain from the rest of it?
647:  Honey I don't know.
Interviewer:  {NW}
647:  I don't know nothing about oats.
Interviewer:  They never had that
647:  #1 mm-mm #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
647:  No. Never grew no oats here.
Interviewer:  Say if there was something that we had to do today just the two of us you could say we'll have to do it or you could say? you say you and I will have to do it or me and you will have to do it.
647:  mm-hmm you and I will have to do it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What if you were talking about some man and yourself? You'd say?
647:  mm I don't know. {C: mumbles}
Interviewer:  What do you say? He doesn't want just you or just me for this job he wants.
647:  Want more than uh more than me for that job.
Interviewer:  uh-huh #1 You say he wants #
647:  #2 That he # needs someone else.
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
647:  #2 for the job. #
Interviewer:  Well you say he wants all two of us or both of us or
647:  mm-hmm both of us. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And if you knock at the door and somebody asks who's there and you know they recognize your voice you'd say its?
647:  It's here?
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  It's here?
Interviewer:  #1 or #
647:  #2 Or you're not here? #
Interviewer:  Or they ask you who's there you'd say its?
647:  mm I don't know that {NS}
Interviewer:  You say it's I or it's me?
647:  mm-hmm You say it's me I don- um it's me. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh And if it was some man you'd say it's?
647:  It's a man.
Interviewer:  Or if I say is that Jim at the door you'd say yeah that was?
647:  It was- I don't know.
Interviewer:  Well you say that was he or that was him or?
647:  I don't know honey how to say it {X} I don't know. {C: mumbles} I don't know. {NS} Say that's him I guess.
Interviewer:  mm-kay and if it's a woman you'd say it's?
647:  Well it's her.
Interviewer:  And there's two people.
647:  Well you say it's both of 'em two people at the door.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  #1 two #
Interviewer:  #2 And talking # talking about how tall you are you'd say he's not as tall as?
647:  He's short.
Interviewer:  Or talking about yourself you say he isn't as tall as?
647:  As me.
Interviewer:  Or I'm not as tall?
647:  As him.
Interviewer:  And he can do that better?
647:  Better than I can.
Interviewer:  And if something belongs to me then you'd say it's?
647:  It's mine.
Interviewer:  And I might say uh this isn't mine this is?
647:  Yours.
Interviewer:  And if it belongs to both of us it's?
647:  Then it's for both of us.
Interviewer:  It's not just yours
647:  #1 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  #2 or just mine it's? #
647:  For both of us.
Interviewer:  It's ou- Who's is it it's?
647:  For both of us I say me.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And if it belongs to them then it's?
647:  It belongs to them.
Interviewer:  So it's it's not ours #1 it's? #
647:  #2 it's not ours it's yours. #
Interviewer:  Well if it's belongs to them then it's it's not ours it's? It's thei- If it belongs to him then you'd say it's?
647:  It's his.
Interviewer:  And if it belongs to her?
647:  It's hers.
Interviewer:  And if you were talking to a whole group of people say if they were fixing to leave your house after visiting you. You'd say well I hope?
647:  Come back again.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  #1 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  #2 I hope- # How would you say that?
647:  I hope you come back again.
Interviewer:  Would you say you if you were talking to a whole group?
647:  No I'd just tell 'em that I hope y'all come back again.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  So it'd mean for all of them.
Interviewer:  uh-huh would you ever say y'all to just one person?
647:  No. When it's just one person you say well you can come back again whenever you get ready.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And if there's a group of people at your house and you're asking them about all of their coats you know everybody's coats you'd say well where are?
647:  Where are your coats?
Interviewer:  Would you ever say where are y'all's coats?
647:  mm-hmm {NS}