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}
647:  A squash.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm {D: And the yellow squash and the other white round squash is a scalptine.}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  what about kinds of melons?
647:  Ooh girl you got all kind of melon I can tell you a melon I don't know nothing about the melon. I already got the {X} they call rattlesnake melon it's a striped melon. {X} melon it'd be a little melon about this long about that big around. we call 'em ice box melon I don't know what kind I don't know nothing much about the melon.
Interviewer:  What kinds of melons do you have planted?
647:  I plant some rattlesnake melons some other kind of green melon I don't know what the name of it. I just plant it. {NW}
Interviewer:  Those are all water-
647:  Watermelon.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What else besides watermelons are there?
647:  I planted those in the lawn. Now what they call 'em? {NW} You know those {X} {D: little mushmellow now what they call that?}
Interviewer:  can-
647:  cantaloupe
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Yep like that.
Interviewer:  {D: So cantaloupe is little mushmellow?}
647:  Ah and he's sweet.
Interviewer:  uh-huh um {NS} What about {C: Vehicle} {NS} something that {C: Vehicle} spring up in the woods or fields after it rains little thing shaped like this?
647:  I don't know what that is. Spring up after it rain?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I don't know that.
Interviewer:  Do you ever here of mush-?
647:  Mushroom?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Thats what? {X} talk a' mushroom, but they don't um you don't see that. {NS} yeah you can {X} mushrooms they eat all everything that's come up in the rain there. They ain't no good to eat that's poison there.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Those black mushrooms that just comes up in the ground there
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  that's poison they tell me. {NS} Now you can {X} mushroom that mushroom in can.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  but its good to eat but that's kinda {NS} {D: think I might} throw up and they ain't no good to eat.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you ever hear of them called anything else besides mushroom?
647:  {NS} No. {C: Vehicle} {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever of {C: Vehicle} toadstool or frog bench or
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  devils cap or anything?
647:  mm-mm What that is?
Interviewer:  Just a kind of a mushroom.
647:  Oh yeah, I don't know nothing about that. {NS} I don't know much about the form and things because uh there's so many different kind of things that you can plant, you know?
Interviewer:  yeah
647:  That I don't know what it is. {NS} They got plenty of things in the uh {NS} in the French market what I ain't never did see was good to eat and I ain't never did see {D: 'til the elder years} I ain't never did see it when I was a girl coming up. {NS} mm-hmm Yes many thing.
Interviewer:  Did you go into the French market much when you were young?
647:  No uh-uh {NS} I pass by the French market more in my than what I ever did cuz I didn't used to know where the French market was
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  'til after I got married {NS} and we didn't used to go no ways. {NS} Mama didn't leave us go no where but keep us home.
Interviewer:  yeah
647:  mm we didn't visit no one we didn't go about no where. {NS} see I didn't dance of all in and all that I ain't never did dance never did visit no {X}
Interviewer:  so you used to have dances a lot? #1 a lot #
647:  #2 yeah # and she never did allow us to {NS} play cords and didn't let the children do nothing
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {NS} I don't know how to do that never did play cord. mm-mm {NS} Don't know how to dance I ain't never did dance in my life and I'm seventy-seven years old. Never did dance. You see when we comed up {NW} we didn't come up like these children here
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  These children they goes all over {C: rooster} {NS} come in all hours of night. We didn't eh we used to play in our yard with one another it was a {X}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  and we used to play with ourselves we ain't go of and play over no one. {C: bump}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  and we didn't visit nobody. And when people old people would tell us something we couldn't we was not allowed to answer nobody whoever we was regardless to what color we couldn't we couldn't sass nobody.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  and one thing we ain't I ain't never did sass at nobody when I was small coming up. But these children they'll sack you out they'll curse and everything now we wasn't allowed to use that kind of word. {NS} We mama didn't allow us to call one another a liar we could say you're foolish and you're crazy or something like that
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  but not using no word of liar uh-uh. {X} oh you're a liar {X} {NS} we couldn't we couldn't use that.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I don't use that word now. If you say I say oh yes go ahead you spelling a story
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  but I never call nobody no liar. One time I called my husband a liar oh what he done he tell something he tell me and we ain't married. I said you're a liar then I had to I said oh you see that you made me call you a liar I ain't used to I ain't never did call him a liar never meant to call my husband a liar. I felt sorry I {D: that I called him} but he made me angry at the time you know?
Interviewer:  yeah
647:  mm-hmm No well I use them when I make them {X} oh no no
Interviewer:  What is it we used to use to carry water in?
647:  A bucket. {C: buzz} {NS} A water bucket. {C: buzz}
Interviewer:  What was it made out of? {C: buzz} {X}
647:  as well for a bucket. I have a tub I have a washboard.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You ever seen a washboard eh?
Interviewer:  {X}
647:  You never did use it eh? I hear you young people tell {X} use again had nothing else to wash with had nothing else to wash with you had no washing machine or nothing. {NS} and uh A lot of them after they come here after they move down here they had no washing machine they use to go way in to town and wash their clothes but not me I took my washboard and washed my clothes and put them on my line. I ain't run to town with no clothes. {D: They don't want to do nothing but ditter young people.} You see the like them young people you see like them making a little bit {X} And children can be here sitting down they won't come in help me with- I asked one of 'em to come help me plant some melons He has to go play ball. I said alright. My son he was sitting out right there {NS} he wouldn't come help me plant no watermelon I just make them watermelon come up. and there I ain't even put their foots up again
Interviewer:  yeah
647:  I mean that I ain't even {X} cuz he wasn't feeling nothing he could help me. Last time I planted some I gave the little boy some. to sell I give you them selling keep the money for yourself. {NS} And I couldn't get none of 'em to help me the {D: whole week.} you see I be sitting down doing nothing {NS} those children be sitting down like that or be sleeping all day I would rather get out there and plant my little gourds.
Interviewer:  yeah
647:  mm-hmm Plant gourds and plant flowers {C: Vehicle} you see I see not near enough people around here with flowers. {C: Vehicle} Me and that old lady over there we got a us two nice garden here with flowers. No they won't try to plant my flowers A little boy bought some um {X} and planted them in a hole out there {X} oughta be coming up. Cuz my daughter got some of them high that high. And you don't see none here ain't nothing but {X} in March lucky if they ever come up. He said he didn't know how to plant I tell him if he'd have called me I'd have showed him how to plant those things. I raise chicken I raise chicken I got my own eggs got my own onion for me to use I don't have to buy no onion. First year I plant beans {X} beans I ain't plant no beans this year. {X}
Interviewer:  You know, that bucket did you ever see one made out of wood?
647:  Yeah I used to have wooden pail
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  they used to call him a pail
Interviewer:  #1 They ca- #
647:  #2 a wooden pail. #
Interviewer:  They call it a pail if they were made #1 out of wood? #
647:  #2 Yeah # uh-huh a wooden pail.
Interviewer:  What about the thing they'd use to carry food to the hogs in?
647:  Oh you can carry it in near anything, a bucket, a wooden pail, anything. {C: Vehicle} {NS}
Interviewer:  What'd they call it? {C: Vehicle} {NS}
647:  A pail wasn't a pail you need a trough to feed the hogs in.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  You need trough to feed the hogs.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear that called a slop?
647:  You know what you call slop?
Interviewer:  What?
647:  You see when you saving food for the hog
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  like your potato peel and your old rice and things
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  you have a can of something and you dump that in
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  then you give it to the hog. Add the rest of it you can give them meat and bread and everything
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  bring it to your hog
Interviewer:  So they call that the slop?
647:  Yeah that's what they call slop.
Interviewer:  The slop can or #1 slop bucket #
647:  #2 mm-hmm yeah # slop bucket yeah
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about um if you cut some flowers and want to keep it in the house you put it in a?
647:  A glass a vase? {NS}
Interviewer:  and {NS} something that you'd use for frying eggs? {C: Vehicle} {NS}
647:  A frying pan? {C: vehicle}
Interviewer:  uh-huh Is that what they used to have?
647:  Yeah they got right now. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever see one of those little legs on it that you could use for a fireplace?
647:  Oh an old time pot?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {C: bump}
647:  yes {X} {NW} They used to call it an oven.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Mm-hmm th- they'd put three legs on it. mm-hmm I had one I don't know what happened to my pot had one about this high. I just got to remember what happened to my pot my pot got lost in a storm once or what. It had four three little legs about this long {C: Vehicle} {NS} mm-hmm an old drying pot.
Interviewer:  What about if you were setting the table? What would you put next to each plate for people to eat with?
647:  A fork and a spoon a fork and a knife.
Interviewer:  uh-huh and If you serve steak nowadays and it wasn't very tender you might have to put out steak-
647:  knives
Interviewer:  And when you're washing dishes {NS} the cloth or the rag that you use?
647:  Dear I call it a dish towel. {NS}
Interviewer:  Those you use when you're washing it?
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What about when you're drying them?
647:  I use uh {X} when I wash I use uh a little something like a little washcloth a dishtowel it's small. And the long and then what you're drying is {X} dishtowel it's a drying dishtowel they all dishtowels.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm and
647:  But the little one that you wash dishes with is small and big uh the larger one is to dry the dishes.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Say if you wanted to pour something from a big container into something with a narrow mouth to keep it from spilling out you'd pour it through a-
647:  A funnel.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And {NS} if you were driving horses and wanted them to go faster you'd hit them with a-
647:  Um a buggy whip.
Interviewer:  uh-huh and nowadays if your light wasn't working you'd screw in a new-
647:  mm-hmm You screw in a bulb.
Interviewer:  uh-huh and um {NS} You mentioned uh well something that that flour used to come in that would be uh?
647:  Flour?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Flours you make bread with?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Come in the white sacks in {X} used to now you buy it in a bag I guess they still sell 'em in sacks.
Interviewer:  What's the difference between a sack and a bag?
647:  Well a a a sack is made out of cotton you can use that for anything you can wash 'em and use it but the bag you throws it away a paper bag.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  What about if you bought a whole lot of flour what would it come in?
647:  Some of it is in bags some of it in sacks I don't see no more sack flour no more.
Interviewer:  What about a big wooden thing it'd come in?
647:  What the flour {X} you used to get it in barrels before.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  When we come up that's what my my mother used to buy it in barrels.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  But I don't see no you don't hear about no barrel flour people don't buy no flour out of no barrel no more.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  There five pound flour and ten pound flour in bag. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about the things that would run around the barrel to hold the wood in place?
647:  The metal hook.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And something smaller than a barrel that nails used to come in? {NS}
647:  Oh in barrels nail?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {X}
Interviewer:  Well they wouldn't call it a barrel they'd call it a-
647:  Oh I don't know they'd have called it a barrel to me. That's a barrel of nails ain't that?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  You call it a barrel I would call 'em barrels I don't know what other name they call 'em you know?
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a keg or kag?
647:  Beer in keg yeah.
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  Keg of beer.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} You know on a keg of beer the thing that you turn to get the #1 beer out? #
647:  #2 the faucet. #
Interviewer:  Huh?
647:  A faucet.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about out in the yard what you can hook your hose up to?
647:  That's a faucet.
Interviewer:  And at the sink?
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Same thing?
647:  Faucet inside and faucet outside yeah.
Interviewer:  um
647:  They're the same thing.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} And if you wanted to carry clothes out to hang them on the line you'd care them out in a clothes-
647:  In the clothes basket. {NS}
Interviewer:  and if you opened a bottle and wanted to shut it back up you stick in a {NS}
647:  You don't see them {C: Vehicle} kind of bottle no more no when you open a bottle {X} want to shut it up again.
Interviewer:  What did they used to have?
647:  They used to have them cork stoppers for bottles.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Might have had those little tin you know those funny stoppers that you had to pick up and they're hard to put back.
Interviewer:  yeah
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  um {NS}
647:  You could go to the store you could go to the grocery and buy those cork stoppers.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  A bottle you'd break your you have a bottle of wine or something and you'd break your {X} or your jug. The stopper would break you could go to the grocery and buy some corks but I don't see that no more me that's all done away without me. {NS} All new things now all all old things is done away with.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  The young people done throw all them old things aside. mm-hmm {NS} Every thing you {NS} {X} people doing so much that they.
Interviewer:  yeah
647:  They got it so good tell 'em they just don't know what to do. {NS} They here they doing things they got no business. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um you know sugar cane what did they make out of the sugar cane?
647:  They make sugar out of it and make syrup.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  And they use the after they get the syrup and thing out of it they makes wha- they make um lumber out of it they makes lumber like um {NS} {NW} like like furniture they they put their little cheap furniture that's made out of sugar cane.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
647:  {NS} And they make the roofing for the houses I believe out of it
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  and and things to put inside your house like sheet rock and things. {NS} They use that plywood.
Interviewer:  What do they call that part of it?
647:  The sugar cane?
Interviewer:  That they make the lumber out of.
647:  Oh I don't know I don't know what they call it.
Interviewer:  {D: Do you ever hear of ba- bagasse?}
647:  mm-mm I ain't never did here that. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um something a little bit thicker than the syrup? {NS}
647:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of black strap?
647:  Black syrup?
Interviewer:  or black strap
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  molas-
647:  Oh molasses like black molasses
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm I can talk about that.
Interviewer:  How's how's that different?
647:  That's made out of sugar can too.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  How's that different from the syrup?
647:  huh?
Interviewer:  How's that different from the syrup?
647:  I don't think it's no different it's just a darker syrup. Darker molasses is more thicker.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  They had the thick kind of molasses and they had the thin one.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Cane syrup is good.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear it called long sweetening and short sweetening?
647:  uh-uh
Interviewer:  What about if you wanted to buy some molasses what would it come in?
647:  You can buy molasses in bottles you can buy it in cans. {NS} {X} bottles and cans. {C: Vehicle}
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of a stand of molasses?
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  What about lard did you ever hear of a stand of lard?
647:  What you cook with?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What did it come in?
647:  You used to buy it in cans they used to have it in barrels to in the grocery a long time ago.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  And we had uh uh a scoop they used to take it out and put it in a paper if you want to buy or bring your bucket and they put it in your bucket.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of it coming in a stand?
647:  mm-mm They have it in boxes
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  brown boxes. {NS} Cans they have it in cans now. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about what feed used to come in?
647:  What?
Interviewer:  What feed used to come in?
647:  What kind of feed?
Interviewer:  Just feed for the cows or horses
647:  Sacks sacks
Interviewer:  #1 What kind of- #
647:  #2 big sacks. #
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  Big sacks big brown sacks.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Couldn't do nothing with them but it you know {X} and everything. You'd buy um a hundred pound of oats that was in great big sacks.
Interviewer:  What do they call those sacks?
647:  hmm?
Interviewer:  You know that brown cloth?
647:  Yeah
Interviewer:  What did they call those sacks?
647:  What'd they call it?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  They just call it sacks that's all I call it.
Interviewer:  You ever hear of a toe sack or a gunny sack or grass sack
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  {X} sack
647:  mm-mm {NW} I never hear talk of that.
Interviewer:  uh-huh and Say if there was a log across the road. You say I tied a chain to it and I- what it out of the road.
647:  Pull it out of the road.
Interviewer:  Or another way of saying it I-
647:  Oh I don't know. You can roll it or you can pull it.
Interviewer:  But talk about dragging it you say I-
647:  Drag it? Like that mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  You say I tied a chain around it and I-
647:  Drag it out of the way.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  This is something that um you can play you can blow on it like this.
647:  A little mouth music?
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  Mouth music.
Interviewer:  What's that?
647:  Mouth music.
Interviewer:  How'd you what'd you what do you play?
647:  Blow it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Maybe rubbing it like that and blowing it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I call it a mouth music me Oh we got a lot of names for {X} for {X} {NS} I forget.
Interviewer:  What do you call the thing that you blow on?
647:  What thing?
Interviewer:  That you blow on?
647:  Oh I don't know. {NS} Got me about that. What you talking about those uh Music what you blow those horns?
Interviewer:  No the it's a little thing that's about this big.
647:  Oh the mouth music.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I don't know what you call it. {NS}
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of a mouth harp or a French harp? Or a harmonica?
647:  Oh that's what they call music which you blow in your mouth yeah.
Interviewer:  What's that?
647:  A harmonica that you say that just now.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What about the thing that you blow like-
647:  Oh a harp I don't know.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I just know about a harp. I ain't seen anything else {X} more to hear
Interviewer:  What's a harp look like?
647:  mm-hmm eh?
Interviewer:  What's a {X}
647:  {X} my daddy used to by 'em from my brother but I just don't remember how they looks.
Interviewer:  What you called it is that the thing you'd put between your teeth and you'd-
647:  I don't remember but I know my bother used to want that all the time a harp to play with. But now I admit I just can't remember how it was made or how it made. and then so long I ain't seen anything ooh I can't thought of the last time I see I was small when my daddy used to buy it from my brother. He always wanted a harp to play with. mm
Interviewer:  You never wanted one?
647:  No indeed. mm-mm me just mouth music I ain't worried with {X} {NS} See that television there?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I put that on and I get tired sitting there. Sometime I be sitting on in here listing to the weather and I don't know what they say. I don't be paying it no mind. {NS}
Interviewer:  Say if a if a a man had a load of wood on his wagon and he was driving along and unloading it and going back and filling up the wagon again you'd say that he was
647:  Hauling wood.
Interviewer:  uh-huh and do you remember um a long time ago when you'd you'd take the corn to the mill and have it ground up.
647:  We never did do that.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} #1 Did you ever hear #
647:  #2 I never did # see a mill with {X}
Interviewer:  uh-huh Did you ever hear people talk about a turn of corn?
647:  uh-uh a {X} of corn
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  uh {NS}
Interviewer:  What about if you went out and got as much stove wood as you can carry in both your arms
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  you say you had a-
647:  A load of wood.
Interviewer:  or an arm-
647:  {X}
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  Yeah an armload of wood.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} and on a wagon that didn't have a full load of wood you say you just had a-
647:  A half a load. uh-huh
Interviewer:  And you know if you had a wagon and two horses the long wooden piece that comes between the horses. {NS}
647:  Long wood you couldn't put no long wood between the horses.
Interviewer:  #1 well #
647:  #2 You could # put it out and let it hang out on the back of the way and what not.
Interviewer:  #1 No I I mean the part of the wagon that goes between the horses. #
647:  #2 Oh # Oh now I don't forget what you call that thing. {NS} {D: Is that what you} call that you you got to hook that up between the horses when they pulling it. Yeah I don't {X} what you call that. I don't {X} what you call it then.
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of a pole or a tub or a spear for the wagon?
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  What about on the buggy? What you have you know those wooden pieces that come on each side of the horse? {NS}
647:  I used to know it I forgot how you call that thing. {NS} I forgot what they how they what they call that. {NS} We used to have a {X} that we used to hitch up to the horse but I forgot what you call it. {NS} Not me I didn't do it my father was. {NS} We lead the horse and we gotta pull it it sit between the horse a horse on either side of it. I forgot what you call that I done forgot. {NS}
Interviewer:  You know on the wheels of the wagon the thing that goes across and holds on wheel to the other. {NS}
647:  {X} the axle {C: vehicle passing by} {X} {NS}
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}
Interviewer:  {NS} How how would you say that? {NS}
647:  Aw I don't know just I'll say your coat which is your coat?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Which one is your coat cuz everybody know their own things you see?
Interviewer:  mm-hmm And if there had been a party that you hadn't been able to go to and you were asking about what people had gone you'd say well?
647:  What th- how the party went on or something I don't know some kind of thing like that.
Interviewer:  Or asking about the people you'd say well was at the party you'd say?
647:  Who was at the party?
Interviewer:  uh-huh Would you ever say who all was at the party?
647:  mm-hmm Ask who all was at the party.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Say if there was a group of children that obviously belong to more than one family. You'd ask about them children are they you'd say well?
647:  Who all the children is for?
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  Who all the children is for?
Interviewer:  uh-huh Would you ever say who all's children are they or who's children are they?
647:  Who's children are they yeah.
Interviewer:  And if there had been a a speech that you hadn't been able to hear {NS} and you're asking about you know everything that the speaker said {NS} you'd ask well? Did he say? You'd say.
647:  I don't know. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever say what did he say or what all did he say?
647:  I guess I would. {NS}
Interviewer:  How would you say that?
647:  Well what did he spoke about?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I don't do what I say what did he what did he spoke about?
Interviewer:  #1 And #
647:  #2 What # was the speech that he said?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Talking about kinds of animals the kind of animal that barks?
647:  Barks?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I just know a dog barks me.
Interviewer:  uh-huh #1 Say if you- #
647:  #2 The only # thing I know that barks is a dog.
Interviewer:  uh-huh If you wanted your dog to attack another dog what would you tell him?
647:  I don't know. I don't get in dog fighting me. Well if you wanted your dog to attack a person what would you tell him? Tell him catch him.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Them get him. Something like that.
Interviewer:  What would you call a mixed breed dog if you didn't know what kind he was?
647:  mm-mm {X} I don't know what kind of dog I got back {D: that time. }
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Some of them tell me he's a poodle I don't know what he is. I know I had a collie.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {NS} And a car killed it that sure was a good dog.
Interviewer:  {C: sighs}
647:  I had a cow and you see when I turn loose that little dog
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  he would take that dog he'd a hold that chain in his mouth and he'd walk that dog all over. If he's go over there with it he's go over bothering cattle and I tell him {D: and he'd be- I say Hexter go get my puppy.}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {D: Go get him and bring him here Hexter.} {NS} He'd go and get that dog and bring him there by the chain. And he'd lay down and he'd put he'd hold that chain in his mouth and he'd put one foot on top of that chain {NS} and the puppy couldn't go he had to stay there.
Interviewer:  huh
647:  And it went right from here it went behi- out back and a car killed my dog.
Interviewer:  {C: sighs}
647:  And my daughter call me and tell me a car hit my dog. I was putting my coat on to go and see about my dog and she say he dead mama. I said well get the children to put him on the side 'til they come from school. And they push him on the side {X} and roll over. And when they came back my little grandson buried him back there.
Interviewer:  {NW}
647:  My daughter gave me that little dog on mother's day. He was black and brown. It was a good dog that dog {D: sure do miss him} {NS}
Interviewer:  What uh what would you call those little r-
647:  Oh lord! {C: Yawning} {X} {C: Yawning}
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  Some little bitty dog?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  A chihuahua dog?
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you ever hear of a feist?
647:  A what?
Interviewer:  Feist.
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  What about just a worthless dog who wasn't much good for anything?
647:  He couldn't do anything?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {D: Isn't a cayoudle like that? }
Interviewer:  Does what?
647:  {D: They call him a cayoudle.}
Interviewer:  uh-huh What did they look like?
647:  Common dog.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} {D: What does a cayoudle look like?}
647:  It's just like a dog but it's a rough dog or eat anything and run all over.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Say if you had a real mean dog you might tell someone you'd better be careful that dog will?
647:  Will bite you.
Interviewer:  You say yesterday the dog?
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What somebody? Yesterday he?
647:  Bite somebody got after somebody.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {D: Yeah them dogs.}
Interviewer:  uh-huh You say that the person had to go to the doctor after he got? Got bite? Got bit. uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Do you ever say after he got dog bit?
647:  Yeah You got to go get a shot when you get bite from a dog.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  If he didn't take no no uh no rabies shot.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And the kinds of animals that you plow with you call those?
647:  You don't plow with no animal but a horse.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That's all I see plow with.
Interviewer:  Well what about those animals that have the long ears?
647:  What you talking about a mule?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  {NW} That's a mule.
Interviewer:  Say if you had two of those hitched together you'd call that a?
647:  A mule.
Interviewer:  Or if you have two of them?
647:  Two mules.
Interviewer:  You'd say you have a?
647:  A pair of mules.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  It's a pair.
Interviewer:  And talking about the horses you'd say everyone around here likes to #1 what? #
647:  #2 Rides # a horse.
Interviewer:  Because they like to what horses?
647:  Ride horses?
Interviewer:  uh-huh You say yesterday he what his horse?
647:  Rode his horse.
Interviewer:  You'd say but I have never
647:  Rode a horse.
Interviewer:  And if you couldn't stay on you'd say you fell
647:  mm-hmm I never got on a horse back then.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  Never ride no horse. {C: Vehicle} {NS}
Interviewer:  Well say somebody who couldn't stay on you'd say they fell?
647:  Fell down fell off the horse.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Say if a child went to sleep in bed and woke up and found himself on the floor in the morning he'd say I guess I must've?
647:  He fell out of the bed.
Interviewer:  And you know the things that um you put on the horses feet you call those the?
647:  The shoe what you put on the horse?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Leave it on the horse feet.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about a game that you play with those?
647:  I don't know nothing about no game there never did play no game with that.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Which I never did play no kinda games me
Interviewer:  What part of the horses feet do you nail the shoe on to?
647:  hmm I don't know. I don't know where they nail 'em in but I know they they put 'em on there with nails.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  What foot they nail them on I don't know somehow they help.
Interviewer:  uh-huh So before you put the shoes on you have to trim all of the horses?
647:  Hoof.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I never put the shoe.
Interviewer:  How many talking about this hoof how many does this horse have?
647:  You have four four foots.
Interviewer:  And four?
647:  Four shoes.
Interviewer:  There talking about this hoof he has four?
647:  Four hoof {X} on each leg.
Interviewer:  uh-huh um The kind of animal that you milk you call that a?
647:  A cow.
Interviewer:  What about the male? {NS} What do you call him?
647:  A bull.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Was that word nice to use when you were growing up?
647:  I don't know that they used to use they used to call them an ox.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  But their name is a bull.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  An ox is when you castrate him.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That's what you call an ox and a bull when he not he not castrated you know.
Interviewer:  Then say you were gonna castrate him what how else would they say that?
647:  That's the only way I know it.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear prim him or mark him or cut him?
647:  mm-mm You can mark a bu- mark ca- animal with uh with an iron with you initial in and you have to warm it an mark 'em with it
Interviewer:  uh-huh um The little cow when it's first born is called a?
647:  A calf.
Interviewer:  And if it's a female it's a?
647:  They call it a heifer.
Interviewer:  And if it's a male?
647:  A bull.
Interviewer:  And if you had a cow that was expecting a calf you'd say she was going to?
647:  Getting a calf is all
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Gonna get a calf.
Interviewer:  And a female horse is called a?
647:  A mare.
Interviewer:  And a male?
647:  A male that's a that's a a stallion.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What about the male sheep?
647:  Oh got me no I don't know nothing about that.
Interviewer:  Do you know about the female?
647:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  #1 What if- #
647:  #2 I never # did see no sheep.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What do people raise sheep for?
647:  I don't know. They make clothes with the wool.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  What you cut off her.
Interviewer:  um {NS} The animals that you get bacon from you call those? {NS}
647:  Hog.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That's hog meat. {C: distant} {X} {C: walking away?} {NS} {X} They tell me to be in school I don- what's wrong with those children? Here's what I tell you things have changed. And see my children I tell them never to be out of school I raise ten eleven children one grandson. Ten of my own and one of my grandson {NS} and children went to school and children never was put out of school for nothing.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Never was put out of school. And yet these children here now they all time out of school. They all the time put out of school for something. Sometimes a whole bunch of 'em out back there is out of school. The siste- those sisters the big sisters they all out of school. It's so bad.
Interviewer:  Their mother just doesn't make them go?
647:  That's what it is these mothers don't raise their children right. {D: The children ain't raided like they used to be raised.} They go and the fight the school teacher I tell 'em they ain't got no business fighting no school teacher. You go to school to learn you ain't go to school to fight or be sassy. I don't like sassy children. {NS} Me and sassy children don't go. {NS}
Interviewer:  ha {C: Vehicle} {NS}
647:  {D: I don't like no children with sassy. } {NS} I like good children. {NS}
Interviewer:  um {NS} You know the hogs {NS} when they're first born you call them a?
647:  {D: A cork}
Interviewer:  Huh?
647:  {D: A cork}
Interviewer:  Oh the hog.
647:  A hog?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Oh you call them a little pig I know.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about when they get a little bit bigger? {NS}
647:  I guess they still a pig. {NS}
Interviewer:  And if they're a female you call them a?
647:  {NW} {C: Laughing} {NS} You know what they call them. Don't you know what they call a female hog?
Interviewer:  What?
647:  A sow.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Does that word sound kind of bad to you?
647:  I don't like that word mm-mm You? It how do it sound to you?
Interviewer:  Huh how does it sound to me?
647:  Yeah saying a sow.
Interviewer:  I didn't grow up hearing the word. So I mean it doesn't sound you know.
647:  It don't sound bad to you? And how about a a female dog call them a jib that don't sound bad?
Interviewer:  I didn't he- learn that word until recently
647:  You didn't learn that word? I likes to say a she dog me.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I don't like to say no jib.
Interviewer:  What about the male hog what do you call him?
647:  A boar hog.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Does that sound bad to you?
647:  mm-mm that don't {C: bump} sound so bad. But I don't like all them old kind of word me I don't know.
Interviewer:  What if what if the boar hog what if he's been castrated then you call him a
647:  A hog.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  A hog I believe. I think that's what they call 'em. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you know the stiff hairs that a hog has on it's back
647:  hmm
Interviewer:  #1 What #
647:  #2 What's that? #
Interviewer:  You know the #1 same #
647:  #2 They gives a # hair is all I call it a hair me.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about on a hair brush? You have a?
647:  Real stiff hair brush?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That looks like that's hog hair here it's so stiff.
Interviewer:  uh-huh They call those the bris-
647:  I don't know what they call it.
Interviewer:  And the big teeth that a hog has
647:  {D: They call them tudges.}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} And the thing you put the food in for the hog?
647:  There's a trough where you put for hog. {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 What would you call- #
647:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  You feed the hog in a trough.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What would you call a hog that's grown up wild?
647:  A wild hog that's all.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  A wild hog. {NS}
Interviewer:  And {NS} say if you had some horses and mules and cows and so forth {NS} and they were getting hungry you'd say you had to go feed the?
647:  The horses and the mules.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Would you ever call them the critters or the stock?
647:  I hear people call them stock too.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What if you were talking about turkeys and chickens and geese and so forth? You'd say you had to go feed the?
647:  Go feed uh sa- uh go feed my chickens I ain't never fooled with no geese and turkey.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Go feed my chicken but not no turkey near no geese. {NW} {C: Sneeze}
Interviewer:  If it's time to {NS} to feed the s- stock and do your chores you'd say that it's?
647:  It's time to feed him.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you ever hear people say it's feeding time or fodder time?
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What did they say?
647:  What they say about what time to feed your animals?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That's what I say me time to feed the animals.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm Time to feed your horses or something.
Interviewer:  And you know the noise that a calf makes when it's being weened? You'd say the calf began to?
647:  The calf make noise?
Interviewer:  uh-huh What kind of noise does a calf make?
647:  I don't know me. They hollers I know. {NS}
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  They hollering but they don't I don't know how {D: you know hollers}
Interviewer:  What about a cow what noise does she make?
647:  Oh she make a funny noise too.
Interviewer:  You say she does what?
647:  Oh I forgot how you say it. I forgot how you say that.
Interviewer:  What about a horse?
647:  A horse hollers.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm Say if you wanted to call a cow to get her to come to you how would you do that?
647:  Well you call her by her name and she come to you.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Well I ain't never had nothing to cal- that I had to call I call them me.
Interviewer:  uh-huh How would you call a calf?
647:  How you call a calf?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You don't call them I don't think you call no calf. They comes to their mother when you when they want to come to her.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What would you say to a to get her to stand still so you could milk her.
647:  Well you just tell 'em to keep still. For you to milk 'em you tell 'em to keep still.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What do you say to a mule or a horse to make them turn left or right when you're plowing?
647:  Honey I don't know I don't know. {NS} I ain't never did plow no horses #1 {D: just had mule}. #
Interviewer:  #2 Ha # {NS} Did you ever hear anybody call a horse?
647:  uh-uh
Interviewer:  What about to get him started you tell the horse?
647:  Get up I guess something like that.
Interviewer:  And to stop her?
647:  Move.
Interviewer:  And to back up?
647:  Tell him back up.
Interviewer:  And ho- #1 did you eve- #
647:  #2 You # pull on the rope
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
647:  #2 tell 'em to # back up.
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear anybody call sheep?
647:  No I ain't never did see a live sheep.
Interviewer:  What about hogs?
647:  I seen hog but I ain't never seen no sheep.
Interviewer:  How would people call hogs?
647:  They don't call 'em they they have 'em in a pen you don't have to call 'em.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about chickens?
647:  Oh I used to call chicken but I don't call no more chicken now.
Interviewer:  How did you use to call them?
647:  I don't know I forgot. {NS} I don't ever call my chicken I just throw feed time and let 'em come get it.
Interviewer:  ha. What different um kind of bread do people make out of flour?
647:  You can make biscuit bread and you can make light bread.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  And you make cakes. {NS} That's all the different I know.
Interviewer:  What do people put in light bread to make it rise?
647:  Oh you got to buy you got to make yeast for it. #1 And then make #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh #
647:  your bread. And put your bread there and let your bread rise and put it in the stove put it in a pan let it rise and put it in the stove.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  And bake it. I don't even know how to make no more bread I ain't make bread in so long.
Interviewer:  ha You say there's two kinds of bread there's home made bread
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  and then there's What you buy at the store you call that?
647:  Bread buying from the baker. uh-huh That's not homemade bread
Interviewer:  #1 that's? #
647:  #2 No # uh-uh Homemade bread you make your bread yourself.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  And bake it yourself in your stove.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That's what you call homemade bread.
Interviewer:  What about the other kind of bread?
647:  Biscuit bread?
Interviewer:  No that you buy at the store. You call that?
647:  Bread buying it from the baker
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
647:  #2 I # call it baker's bread me.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And talking about how much flour you might buy you might buy a sack that has five? {NS}
647:  Oh I don't know I don't buy no sack of flour. {NS}
Interviewer:  How much how much flour did a sack have?
647:  Ninety-eight pound.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about something that you make up a batter and you fry three or four of these for breakfast?
647:  Pancake?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  You like pancake and syrup?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
647:  I don't eat that. I used to like that I don't like that no more.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about something people would make they fry it in deep fat and it has a hole in the center? {NS}
647:  What it is? I don't know. It has a hole in the center?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  What they frying in what?
Interviewer:  In deep fat.
647:  I don't know I never did s-
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of doughn-
647:  Doughnut that's what you talking about?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  They fry doughnuts in fat?
Interviewer:  How do you make doughnuts?
647:  I don't know I buy doughnuts {X} me I don't make no doughnuts. {C: mumbling}
Interviewer:  #1 What sort of #
647:  #2 If I don't # know how to make uh-huh I don't guess.
Interviewer:  What sort of things do you make out of cornmeal?
647:  {NW} {C: Yawning} Cornbread. {C: Yawning} Just about all I make out of cornmeal.
Interviewer:  What about taking just the cornmeal and salt and water and making something that you can eat with a spoon?
647:  I don't know I ain't never did make that.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of mush or cush-cush?
647:  Yeah I hear talk of that but I ain't never did made that I don't know how you make it.
Interviewer:  What's that?
647:  Cush-cush I made it cornbread I know how to make cornbread.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
647:  I use that. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of mush?
647:  uh-uh Do you ever hear of a corn dodger? {C: 678 yawns} No what that is I don't know what that is. I don't know what kind of what that is {X} I don't know I don't know much about them things. {NS}
Interviewer:  And {NS} the inside part of an egg you call that?
647:  The yolk of the egg.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What color is that?
647:  The egg is yellow.
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  The egg is yellow.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And if you cook them in hot water you call them?
647:  Boiled egg?
Interviewer:  What if you #1 Crack #
647:  #2 Well break egg # break egg in ho- in warm water?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Poach eggs?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Shoot I don't eat that.
Interviewer:  ha {NS}
647:  That's too nasty ew. I don't eat poach eggs.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  That's what the doctor told me poach eggs I don't {X} {NS} I don't like boiled either you see boiled eggs everyone. I'm supposed to eat two boiled eggs for breakfast. Oh {D: I ate meat when I then stopped to eat meat I don't eat no egg} boiled eggs. I get tired of all this stuff. Poach eggs I don't eat that at all.
Interviewer:  You know um the kind of pork the kind of salter um pork you can use for boiling with greens
647:  What's that?
Interviewer:  the kind of meat you use for boiling with greens.
647:  What kind of meat I don't know I don't know about that.
Interviewer:  You know that real fat salt pork?
647:  Oh. You use that for putting in greens?
Interviewer:  uh-huh What would you call that kind of meat?
647:  Fat meat.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about when you cut the side of the hog? What do you call that?
647:  I don't know. Cut the side of the hog?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  Well the kind of meat that you buy sliced now to eat with eggs.
647:  Oh bacon?
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you ever hear people talk about a side of bacon or a middling of bacon?
647:  mm-mm I just go ahead and buy bacon here I don't know if it's the side or middle or what.
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about the edge of the bacon what they cut off before they slice it? {NS}
647:  I don't know I ain't never seen it. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you could take the trimmings and slice them up and grind them and season them and you'd make?
647:  That makes a pork sausage?
Interviewer:  uh-huh What about the person who kills and sells meat he's called a?
647:  Butcher.
Interviewer:  And if meat's been kept too long you say that it's done what?
647:  Spoiled?
Interviewer:  And what do you make with the inside parts of the hog what inside parts do you eat?
647:  I don't eat nothing like that sure. I don't eat pork at all I don't fool with it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  I don't worry with no pork meat.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of the chit?
647:  Chitlin chitlins that what they call?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  Yeah I don- yeah I don't eat that either you eat that?
Interviewer:  I hadn't ever had it.
647:  I don't eat that. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um {NS} the other inside parts that they eat? {C: Vehicle} {NS}
647:  What inside parts? {C: Vehicle}
Interviewer:  Of a hog. {NS} Do you ever hear of a harslet or haslet?
647:  mm-mm I don't ever hear talk of that.
Interviewer:  What can they make with the meat from the head?
647:  hog head cheese.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you ever hear of anything called scrapple or pon haus?
647:  uh-uh What I don't know what that is.
Interviewer:  What about something they can make from the liver?
647:  I don't know I never knowed nothing to make with no liver.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear them make anything out of the blood?
647:  Blood sausage yeah. Oh my lord. {C: yawning}
Interviewer:  How did they make the blood sausage?
647:  I don't know. I don't know cuz I don't know where I was at.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Say if you had some butter that was kept too long and the butter didn't taste right you'd say the butter was?
647:  Rank.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And this is something like a fruit pie only it has several layers of fruit and dough in it?
647:  What a fruit cake?
Interviewer:  Of course maybe if you made it out of apples you call it a?
647:  Apple pie?
Interviewer:  uh-huh Do you ever hear of an apple cobbler or an apple slump or?
647:  Yeah I hear talk of apple cobbler.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And you might take milk or cream and mix that with sugar and pour it over pie you'd call that a?
647:  Put milk and sugar over pie?
Interviewer:  uh-huh Just a a sweet liquid.
647:  I never seen it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh Say if someone has a good appetite you'd say he sure likes to put away his?
647:  His food.
Interviewer:  And food taken between regular meals you'd call that a?
647:  mm I don't know.
Interviewer:  Well say you've already eaten dinner but then you go in and {NS}
647:  Eat between meal? {C: Vehicle} {NS}
Interviewer:  And fix yourself something to eat around the middle of the afternoon {C: vehicle}
647:  oh {C: Vehicle}
Interviewer:  you'd call that a?
647:  Eating between meal.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Do you ever call that a bite or a snack or a lunch?
647:  Yes uh yeah lunch or a snack.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And if dinner was on the table and the family was standing around the table you'd tell them to go ahead and? {NS}
647:  Eat your dinner.
Interviewer:  Or they're standing up you tell them?
647:  Sit down and eat your dinner.
Interviewer:  mm-kay So you'd say so then he went ahead and what down.
647:  And he wha- what you say? {NS}
Interviewer:  You s- say he was standing up and then he?
647:  Sat down.
Interviewer:  mm-kay And you say {NS} nobody else was standing because everybody had done what? {NS}
647:  eaten their dinner eaten their meal.
Interviewer:  Or had what down no one else was standing because they had all.
647:  Sat down.
Interviewer:  And if you want somebody not to wait until the potatoes are passed over to them you tell them just go ahead and? Say there's the potatoes on the table you might tell someone just go ahead and?
647:  Help yourself.
Interviewer:  So you'd say so he went ahead and?
647:  mm
Interviewer:  and what himself?
647:  Served his self
Interviewer:  Or you told him to help himself #1 you'd say then he? #
647:  #2 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  He went ahead and and what himself to the potatoes?
647:  I don't know honey. {NS}
Interviewer:  Say if someone offers you some food that you don't want you'd say no thank you I don't?
647:  I don't want it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And if food's been cooked and served a second time you say that it's been? {NS}
647:  has been served already. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {C: Vehicle} {NS} You say it's {C: Vehicle} {NS} yet over or warmed up? {C: Vehicle} {NS}
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  You put food in your mouth and then you begin to?
647:  Say what?
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  What?
Interviewer:  You put food in your mouth and then you do what?
647:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Or with your teeth? {NS} You put the food in your mouth and then you do what to it?
647:  Eat it?
Interviewer:  Well with your teeth first of all you?
647:  First of all with your teeth what?
Interviewer:  You go like this you. {NS}
647:  You eating it. You eating your food.
Interviewer:  Or you're breaking the food up you say you're?
647:  mm-hmm Chewing your food.
Interviewer:  uh-huh You say he couldn't eat that piece of meat because it got stuck in his throat and he couldn't?
647:  mm-hmm It's hard something like that.
Interviewer:  uh-huh You say it got stuck in his throat and he couldn't?
647:  Couldn't swallow it.
Interviewer:  uh-huh And peas and beats and carrots and so forth that you grow you call those?
647:  {D: See I remember peas. }
Interviewer:  Or they're all different kinds of?
647:  Frui- uh um vegetables.
Interviewer:  huh?
647:  All different kind of vegetables.
Interviewer:  uh-huh um And whiskey that's made out in the woods you call that? {NS}
647:  Got me about that whiskey cuz I don't make that.
Interviewer:  Ha Did you ever hear of people making it? {NS}
647:  Not down here.
Interviewer:  What about beer that people would make themselves?
647:  {X} {NS} Nobody ever make beer down here I don't think.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Say if something was cooking and it made a good impression on you you'd tell somebody just? That just?
647:  {D: what?}
Interviewer:  You walk into the kitchen and tell me just that food just?
647:  Good?
Interviewer:  uh-huh Would you say just smell it or #1 smell of it? #
647:  #2 Smell # good or.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
647:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  And you'd say this isn't imitation maple syrup this is? This is gen- This isn't imitation this is?
647:  mm Oh lord I don't know. {D: you got me I don't call that. }
Interviewer:  You'd say this is real this is genu- You say it's genuine or genuine?
647:  mm {D: I don't} {NS}