794: and the wind this way at and the wind is ceasing. Interviewer: the wind is what? 794: Wind is ceasing #1 you see. # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh. # 794: That means quit blowing. aux: That wind is gonna rain. 794: It's uh liable to rain. When the when the wind settles or ceases that that means it stopped. #1 blowing you see # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh. # 794: and it turns all warm well that's a a good sign of rain. coming. Interviewer: What do you say if the wind had been weak and it was getting stronger? 794: Well uh the wind has been weak or been low but now it's getting higher or getting stronger. Interviewer: Uh-huh. {X} And #1 a wind from this # 794: #2 and get # Getting stouter or either one. Interviewer: A wind from this direction 794: From the south. A wind from the south gets stronger. Interviewer: If a wind's halfway between the south and east, you call it a? 794: A southeast wind. Interviewer: What 794: Southeast wind Interviewer: What if it's south and west? 794: Southwest wind, the wind from southwest. Interviewer: And north and west? 794: Uh well that they'd be the same thing uh from the wind from northwest Interviewer: And north and east? 794: Uh wind from north east northeast northeast southeast southwest or or southeast #1 either one you see # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh. # You'd say all night long the wind 794: Had been a blowing from the southeast. Interviewer: Uh-huh. If you go in and if you'd had some clothes hanging on the line and you go out and see them knocked down you'd say well the wind must've 794: Blew my clothes down, clothesline down. Interviewer: Cause all night long the wind 794: wind's been a blowing. Interviewer: Or it did what? It 794: It gets rough. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: Wind gets rough. Interviewer: And you'd say the wind what those clothes off? 794: The wind has blowed the clothes off of the line. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Course either way you see a north wind, a south wind, a east a west either one a northeast southeast ever which it may be they blow it off just the same. And sometimes you have it propped up you see and it'll blow it over to one way and your prop will fall. #1 You see # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # 794: out from under it. Interviewer: Have you had bad winds around here? 794: Oh yeah we've had bad winds we had a bad wind here this year here about two or three m- bout two months back blowed uh trees down blowed up a big wild plum tree down this side of {X} and and uh broke uh blowed a big uh cedar tree down Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: across the flower yard down where you see those yellow flowers blowed across there blowed the top out of a mulberry tree down in here in my garden fell right side of the fence didn't fall on it broke the top out of a a double top persimmon tree out here blowed my barn. Interviewer: A double top? 794: Yeah {X} forked you see that that that the top of it was forked and it broke if off just right at its fork. Interviewer: Mm. 794: And both both prongs broke off and blowed two uh pine trees down down here across the branch broke them off up about ten eight or ten foot high. Above the ground. Broke 'em off there. Interviewer: Hmm. 794: And I saw them up in the woods. Somebody wood for the stove out there and some wood for the fireplace here. Interviewer: What do you call the the winds that coming out of the Gulf at about two hundred miles an hour? 794: Well that that's generally a strong wind. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Awful strong wind. Interviewer: What are the ones that are named? Like Camille or Betsy? 794: Is which? Interviewer: There's there's one kind of wind that's real strong and it can totally destroy a #1 a city. # 794: #2 Oh that # that's a that's a low wind that's a it's a well you some called it a whirlwind Interviewer: Uh-huh. {NS} 794: But a whirlwind is a wind that goes around and around thataway. But uh uh when a wind is low now that that's really dangerous more dangerous than than a high wind is sometime the high wind will go above the top of the timber and it don't hurt anything and sometimes it breaks the top of the tall trees out but it come down low why it blows buildings away Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: And and caves trees up by the roots. Interviewer: Mm. 794: The stump and all. Interviewer: If someone told you something and you were surprised, what might you say? 794: Well I wasn't expecting that. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: I wasn't expecting it to be thataway. Interviewer: What would you say if you were disgusted with yourself? If you had done something stupid, what would you say? 794: If I was suggesting something like that or or a wind I I I suggested a wind or was expecting a wind that'd #1 be # Interviewer: #2 well # If you had if you had done something that you hadn't meant to do, you realized it was a stupid thing to do, what might you say? Would you ever say shucks or anything like that? 794: Yeah. At times I have. Interviewer: How would you s- 794: Say shucks. Or shaw. Interviewer: And when a, if someone says something shocking, and you sort of resented them saying it, you might say why the very 794: Very idea. Interviewer: And how would you greet someone on December twenty-fifth? You'd tell 'em 794: Well uh I'd be happy to see 'em Interviewer: Well what day is December twenty-fifth? 794: Uh Christmas. Interviewer: So you'd tell 'em 794: It's Christmas Day. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: And uh Interviewer: You'd wish him a 794: Wish him a happy Christmas. Interviewer: Anything else you'd say beside Happy Christmas? 794: Good Christmas. Good Christmas or Happy Christmas Or uh Big Christmas. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: I believe that's Interviewer: What do your Christmas cards say on them? We wish you a 794: Wish you a happy Christmas. Interviewer: What about a me- 794: Huh? Interviewer: Do you ever say a mer- 794: Merry Christmas. Wish you a merry Christmas. Interviewer: And on the first of January, you'd say happy 794: New Year. Interviewer: Huh? 794: Wish you a happy new year. Interviewer: Anything else people would say? Did you ever hear people say Christmas gift to each other? 794: Yeah. Many a time Interviewer: How would they say that? 794: Say Christmas gift. Christmas Eve gift, that's the day before Christmas you see. Wish you a Christmas Eve gift or wish you a Christmas gift. Interviewer: Do they #1 expect # 794: #2 that'd be ex- # -pecting a present you see. Interviewer: Would you ever say a, a new year's gift? 794: Yeah. Wish you a new year's gift. Interviewer: Would you have to give 'em something then? 794: Well uh it generally a rule that you do. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: You don't say have to but it's generally a rule you know that uh most times they do. Interviewer: And what does a baby do before it's able to walk? 794: Crawls. Interviewer: And a game that children play where one child will be it and the others will hide 794: Hide and seek Interviewer: What do you call the tree you can touch and be safe? 794: Is which? Interviewer: When you're playing hide and seek, you run toward #1 the # 794: #2 behind # Behind the tree from Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: Ever who it is you see you're playing with you hide behi- run hide behind the trees Interviewer: And then you run in and touch the they'll be 794: Well uh they want it'll uh they'll run and catch you you see if they see you Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: They they they'll someone will run and catch you. But uh sometimes you hide in a place they can't find you. Interviewer: Well you, where can you run to and touch and then you'll be safe? 794: Well uh you have a you have a oh kind of a center place Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: A place where you're playing you have a center place that you run and touch. Interviewer: And you call that the? 794: {X} Safe then you see you call it home. Interviewer: Uh-huh. And in football, you run toward the 794: To the center uh to the center base. Interviewer: Is that in football? 794: Yeah that that's called base you see. Interviewer: And something a child plays with, would be called a? 794: Something a child plays with? Interviewer: Would be a ? 794: Toy. Interviewer: What would you call something that a a toy for a small child or a baby {NS} 794: Well there's so many different things now to be it's hard to to say which it'd be. For they have so many different things for 'em to play with uh Interviewer: Would you ever call it a play pretty? 794: Yeah. Call it a play pretty course that's a different different kind of play pretty you know thataway. Interviewer: What would be a play pretty? 794: Well a doll or uh or a ball Interviewer: You think of a play pretty as something for a small child or could any? 794: Or a little bell. Or uh Interviewer: Would an older child have a play pretty? Or just a small child? 794: Well mostly a small child. When they'd get up larger they'd have a little wagon or some kind of toys you see larger toys. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: To play with. And uh Uh to get large enough to pull a wagon the boys course the little girl didn't play with a wagon as much they'd have dolls to play with. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Or they'd fix them a play house. But uh the boys generally have wagons to play with. Interviewer: And {NS} you'd say um, if you walked up to the alter and she 794: Walk up to the alter and she kneeled. Interviewer: And if you were Hmm? 794: Kneel and prayed. Interviewer: And if you were tired you might say I think I'll go over to the couch and 794: And rest. Interviewer: And what down? 794: Squat down. Yeah go to the couch and squat down. And rest. Interviewer: Or if you you can sit down or you can 794: Sit down or you can squat down. Interviewer: Or if you 794: uh kneel down. Interviewer: Or if you stretch out on it, you say you 794: Well you you you can you can stretch out or lay down Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: Lay down on it. Interviewer: And you'd say, he was really sick, he couldn't even sit up all morning he just what in bed, he just? 794: Just squats down and hunches over. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Or talking about him lying in the bed, you'd say all morning he just 794: Well he just uh lays there and just stretches out Interviewer: And if you bring your foot down heavy on the floor, you say you 794: Put your foot on the floor? Interviewer: Or if you bring it down heavy. 794: Oh. Hit the floor, stomp the floor. Interviewer: And if you saw a friend walking home alone and you had your car, you'd say can I? 794: Ride, or pick you up. Interviewer: And if a friend needed to go to the doctor and didn't have a car, you'd say well I'd be glad to 794: Be glad to carry you. Interviewer: And to get something to come towards you, you take hold of it and 794: Pull it towards you Interviewer: And the other way is? 794: Push it from you. Interviewer: And if you had a sack of groceries and didn't have your car, you'd say I picked it up and 794: Well if I had a sack of groceries and didn't have a car? I picked it up and carry it on my shoulder. Interviewer: Anything else you'd say besides carry it? 794: Took it. Interviewer: What if it was something real heavy like you'd say I had to what that suitcase up three flights of stairs? I had to 794: Had to sit it down. On on on the stairs as I went up and rest. Interviewer: Do you ever say I had to tote it or #1 pack it or # 794: #2 tote it yeah have to # Pack it or tote it yeah I've said that too both of 'em Interviewer: What's the difference? 794: Well I don't know there's any difference in packing and toting uh you might say you'd carry it in your hand either way you see. Pack it or tote it either one. You'd be carry it in your hand. Interviewer: And you'd tell a child now that stove is very hot so 794: Don't touch it. Interviewer: #1 and # 794: #2 it'll # It'll burn you. Interviewer: If you needed a hammer you'd tell someone go 794: Get me the hammer. Interviewer: And say if we were planning to meet somewhere, I'd say well you don't need to hurry if I get there first I'll 794: I'll wait for you. Interviewer: And if you were about to punish a child, he might ask you not to punish him, just give him one more 794: One more lick. Interviewer: Or 794: One more uh Interviewer: He would won't do it again if you just give him another 794: Another another lick another strap give him another strap. Interviewer: And someone who's always smiling and doesn't lose his temper you'd say he's got a good sense of 794: he had he had good temper he's uh smooth tempered Interviewer: Or someone who always sees the funny side in things 794: uh do which? Interviewer: Someone who's always um sees the funny side in things always catches onto a joke you'd say he's #1 got a # 794: #2 oh he's just # a joking or Interviewer: He's got a good sense 794: Got a good uh good temper. a d- a good disposition Interviewer: And say if um if you had a man working for you and you didn't and he was messing things up you didn't and he wasn't following your instructions right you'd say you were gonna fire him, he might ask you not to fire him, just give him another 794: Another chance. Interviewer: And you say, we've got termites now but I'm sure the exterminating company will will get 794: I don't believe I got that. Interviewer: If you had termites #1 in the house # 794: #2 Oh # Interviewer: you'd say the exterminating company will 794: W- will uh {X} Termite the place #1 you see # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh # And they'll get 794: {NW} Kill kill the termites Interviewer: Or 794: They'll spray it you see. Interviewer: And that'll get 794: That'll that'll get the termites Interviewer: Do you ever say or get shed of 'em #1 or get # 794: #2 get shed of 'em # yeah that'll get shed of 'em Interviewer: and if a child left her pencil on the desk and came back and didn't find it there, she'd say I bet somebody 794: Somebody got it. You mean the pencil on her desk? Somebody got it. Interviewer: And a child that's always running and telling on other children, you'd call him a 794: Meddlesome. Interviewer: Or he'd be a what? 794: Well he he he'd be a meddlesome or he'd be a always a meddling you see uh telling things on you, on some other child thataway he'd Interviewer: Do you ever call him a tattle 794: Yeah, call him a tattler he'd be be a tattler or uh or be a tattler that's telling things course meddling that'd be uh bothering things you see that you wasn't supposed to be that'd be different Interviewer: Could a grown person be a tattler? 794: Yes. Yes a grown person could be a tattler telling tales you know Interviewer: And If you had a lot of things growing out in your yard and you wanted to brighten up your room, you'd go out and {NS} 794: Turn the uh light on? Interviewer: Or, you wanna, like what you have growing out there that's blooming. You call those...? 794: Something that you're growing out #1 there? # Interviewer: #2 yeah something that blooms. # 794: Blooms oh flowers. Interviewer: And if you wanted to put some flowers in the house you'd go out and 794: You'd break 'em off or trim 'em. Sh- course some takes a knife and trim 'em or pair of scissor and clips them off. Some just breaks 'em off. Interviewer: Uh-huh. So you say you went out and you 794: Gathered 'em. Gathered some flowers. Interviewer: And if you had to get up and start work before the sun was shining, you'd say you had to start work #1 before # 794: #2 Before # daylight. Interviewer: Or before sun 794: Before sun up. Interviewer: And you worked until 794: Sun down. Interviewer: And you'd say this morning I saw the sun 794: Up. Interviewer: I saw it do what? 794: Shining. The sun is shining. Interviewer: Or, at six o'clock this morning the sun 794: Is all was up the sun is a shining Interviewer: #1 it had # 794: #2 {X} # Yeah sun is shining or sun was up. Interviewer: It had done what? 794: Already ca- come up. Interviewer: Or it had, what's another way of saying come up? 794: Come up well that means that means up above uh where you where you can see it Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: well some say up above the timber and some thinks above the ground. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: {NW} Of course they the world is round but the earth is not you see. The earth is not round. Interviewer: What do you mean? 794: But the world is round. Uh uh up in elements. The elements you see uh the world is round. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: In sky and all that's round but the earth is not round. The earth is i- is what they call flat. Course it's not smooth but still it it it's in a way it's flat. The earth is, but the world is round. Interviewer: Does the does the sun travel around the earth or does the earth travel around the sun or what? 794: Well they uh the sun shines around the earth. For you see when it's above it's daylight. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: And when it's below, it's dark. And the sun's bounty shines around the earth. What you think about it? Interviewer: Um, are you you're picture the earth is is #1 flat? # 794: #2 The earth # in a way the earth is i- is flat in a way. The uh {NS} but uh for the earth can't be round. uh The top what you mean the top part of the earth Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Or the bottom part of the earth couldn't be couldn't be round. Bound to be flat. Course as far as the earth all the way all way around thisaway why that's that's like going around something #1 Yeah a circle shape # Interviewer: #2 You mean, but it's flat. # 794: But uh it I don't know whether I suppose though that that'd be round. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. But not like a ball. 794: Not like a ball, no. It couldn't be square you see. Round thataway down would be round. But the top of the earth is flat. And when the sun goes down when it's dark here it's light you see under it. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: That's a pretty hard thing to figure out altogether. {NW} Interviewer: Um if you put some yeast in bread it makes the bread 794: Rise. Interviewer: Uh-huh. And you say I'm We we set the bread in a warm place and then it 794: I- i- i- i- it rise. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: i- it ris. Interviewer: And you'd say I'm you can the bread has already 794: Done? Interviewer: It's already done what? 794: Already ris- enough or {X} if it's cooked enough it's already done. Interviewer: And if a child learns something new like maybe learned to whistle, and you wanna know where she learned it you'd ask her who 794: Who learned you to whistle? Interviewer: And say you give someone a bracelet and you wanna see how it looks on her, you'd say go ahead and 794: A bracelet. Interviewer: You wanna see how it looks on her. #1 You'd say # 794: #2 Oh # They show me the bracelet. Put it on your arm on your wrist. Interviewer: Huh? 794: Put it on your wrist Interviewer: M-kay. 794: on your wrist. Interviewer: And you'd say I have just what him a letter? I have just 794: I have just uh uh fixed it on my arm Interviewer: Or 794: snapped it on my arm Interviewer: Or talking about, sending someone a letter, you'd say I have just what him a letter? 794: Just sent him a letter or ju- mailed him a letter. Interviewer: Uh-huh. And you say yesterday he what me a letter? 794: Yesterday he mailed me a letter. Interviewer: Or talk you'd take your pen and you'd you'd what him a letter? 794: yeah addressed him a letter you see. Interviewer: Or talking about writing. You'd say 794: Well yeah I wrote him a letter. Interviewer: And he's already 794: He's already answered it. Interviewer: Or he's already what me a letter? 794: {X} Uh he wrote me a letter. Or I wrote him a letter and he's already answered my letter. Interviewer: And so tomorrow I'm gonna 794: Write him, answer his letter. Interviewer: And you'd say I wrote him and this time I was getting a 794: Getting an answer. Interviewer: And you put the letter in the envelope and you take out your pen and you 794: You address it. Interviewer: Any old fashion way of saying address it? Do you ever hear backed the letter? 794: Yeah. I backed a letter to him. #1 Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh. # 794: Yeah that though that's the old fashioned way I backed a letter to him. {NS} Interviewer: And you'd say I was gonna write him but I didn't know his 794: Address. Interviewer: And you'd say you can't get food there because the highway department had their machines in earlier and now the road's all 794: Stopped up. Interviewer: Or talking about them tearing it up, you'd say the road's all 794: Oh well uh it's torn up or uh unpassable. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And say if we were just sitting here and no, neither one of us was saying anything. And all of a sudden I asked you what you said, you might say well I didn't say 794: I didn't say anything. Interviewer: And I'd say, oh I thought you said 794: Said something or so-and-so you know, whatever. Interviewer: And, you'd say that wasn't by accident, he did that 794: A purpose. Interviewer: And he moved here in nineteen sixty, and he's lived here ever 794: Ever since. Interviewer: And Jesus said, I am with you 794: Forever and return. Interviewer: And you'd say she what him with a big knife? She She took a big knife and she 794: Stabbed him. Interviewer: And if you wanted to lift something heavy like a piece of machinery you could take pully blocks and a rope and 794: And uh pull it up. Oh uh a block and a line or a winch. Interviewer: Do you ever say hoisted or heisted up? 794: Yeah. Had heisted up. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: But that, what you call {D: hoistening} up, that'd take uh something and prop it just like there's a pole right here and you take another pole and put all this and tie it to whatever this was and you'd have this end of the pole longer and you'd pry down on it. And you pick that up. #1 That's what you # Interviewer: #2 So like a # a lever? 794: Yeah. Yeah you pry that's what they can {D: pryzing, pryzing} up. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: A {D: pryse} pole. Interviewer: Is that the same as heisting? 794: Well not all together. For there's different ways to heist it you see. Uh you can take a a block and line see you can heist it the same as you can with a pole thataway. Or or windlass, you can take a windlass and and raise it up heist it up either one Interviewer: Mm-hmm. You'd say sometimes you feel you get your good luck just a little at a time, but your bad luck comes all 794: All at once. Interviewer: And if you went into town two times a week, you'd say you went to town 794: Twiced. Interviewer: Huh? 794: Twiced. Twiced a week. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And you'd say I'm, today is Saturday, so Friday was Friday was when? 794: Well some calls Friday the last day of the week. Interviewer: Or Friday isn't today, Friday was 794: Friday is was today. And tomorrow is Saturday. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: He'll have to go to town tomorrow. Interviewer: And if today's Friday, then Thursday was 794: Was yesterday. Interviewer: And if someone came here on a Sunday not last Sunday but a week earlier than that 794: Sunday before last. Interviewer: What if he's gonna leave, not next Sunday but a week 794: Week after. Interviewer: Or, or Sunday. #1 you'd call it # 794: #2 Sunday week. # Interviewer: And if someone stayed from the first to the fifteenth, you'd say he stayed about how long? 794: Two weeks. {NS} Interviewer: And, if you wanted to know the time, you'd ask somebody 794: Ask someone how how long they stayed? Interviewer: Or, if you want to know the time? 794: Oh, time the day. Interviewer: You'd ask someone 794: You'd ask someone yeah. Interviewer: What would you ask 'em? 794: What time is it? Interviewer: And you'd look at your? 794: Watch or your Interviewer: And, if it was midway between seven o'clock and eight o'clock, you'd say it's 794: Oh it's uh half past uh seven. Interviewer: What if it's fifteen minutes later than that? You'd say it's 794: A quarter 'til uh to seven. Interviewer: And if you'd been doing something for a long time, you'd say I've been doing that for quite a 794: Quite a while. Interviewer: And you'd say nineteen seventy-four was last year, nineteen seventy-five is 794: This year. Interviewer: And if a child's just had his third birthday, you'd say he's How old? 794: His third birthday? Interviewer: #1 He's # 794: #2 Three # three years old. Interviewer: And if something happened on this day last year, you'd say it happened exactly 794: The same time. Interviewer: How long ago? 794: That'd be a year ago. Interviewer: And talking about the weather, you'd look up at the sky and say I don't like the looks of those black 794: Clouds. Interviewer: And on a day when the sun is shining and you don't see any clouds, you'd say 794: It's fair. {NS} Fair and the sun's shining. Interviewer: What if it's just the opposite of that? If it's real dark and 794: Well it's cloudy. It's cloudy and uh {NS} {C:microphone feedback} Oh um and the clouds, uh if if if they're solid sm- smooth clouds Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: And and if it's low the clouds just way up high it's not much sign of a rain but if they're now settling low Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: That's sign of a rain. Interviewer: If, go back to the fair day. What's another way of saying it's, what if it's a, a r- just a perfect day, you'd say it's a 794: Pretty fair weather. Or uh sun shining weather. Interviewer: Do you ever say it's a 794: Are the clouds this uh Interviewer: What about it's a beau- 794: Beautiful. Beautiful weather. Interviewer: Uh-huh. If the clouds were getting thicker, and you think you're gonna have some rain or something in a little while you'd say the weather is doing what? 794: Is getting cloudy. Or getting heavy. Interviewer: Do you ever say it's threatening or gathering or changing? 794: Yeah gathering, like gathering corn. Or gathering peas or gathering tomatoes. Interviewer: What about the weather? Would you ever say the weather is gathering or #1 threatening? # 794: #2 Oh # Threatening yeah the weather i- the clouds is a gathering up {NS} the rain or a threatening to rain. Interviewer: And if the clouds pull away and the sun comes out, you'd say it looks like it's finally gonna 794: Pass over. Interviewer: And the weather's finally going to 794: Finally going to oh uh going away go fairer up in and it not gonna rain. Interviewer: And if not rain comes for weeks and weeks, you say that you're having a 794: Dry spell. Interviewer: What if it goes on like that for a couple of months? You'd call it a 794: Oh a real dry weather. Hot dry weather. Interviewer: #1 Any other name # 794: #2 a- a- and miserable. # Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: Miserable weather. Interviewer: Any other named for a dry spell? 794: Well just uh dry spell or a hot dry spell Interviewer: What about a drought or #1 {X} # 794: #2 A drought. # Uh yeah a drought. It it's a drought. It it dry a long dry spell is called a drought. Interviewer: How long does it have to be dry before it's a drought? 794: Well it has to be for for a good while, for several weeks. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: To be a drought. Interviewer: And 794: Several days is not a drought that's just a kind of a dry weather like But for several weeks is a drought. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. If you meet someone during the early part of the day, what do you say as a greeting? You'd tell him 794: Good morning. Interviewer: How long does morning last? 794: 'til twelve o'clock. Interviewer: And then what? 794: Evening. Interviewer: Is there another name for evening? 794: Afternoon. Interviewer: How long does that last? 794: Well afternoon lasts just on up 'til dark. Interviewer: So in the evening 794: In the evening yeah see. the afternoon lasts just up 'til you might say dark. Interviewer: #1 and then # 794: #2 and then then it's night # Interviewer: Uh-huh. If you were leaving someone at about eleven o'clock in the day would you say anything if you were leaving them? 794: Well uh I'm leaving in the morning part of the day before noon. Interviewer: Would you ever tell 'em good day? 794: Yeah good day good tell 'em good day or good bye. Interviewer: When do you say good day? When you leave them or when you first see 'em? 794: Uh uh when you leave 'em. Interviewer: #1 is it # 794: #2 good # good day. And and when you first meet 'em why it's howdy. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: {NW} Interviewer: Do you say good day any time during the day or is it just in the morning or what? 794: Yeah well uh most any time of day and you meet him you say howdy Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: And now if it's a morning part you say good morning. And if it's uh afternoon after noon you say good evening Interviewer: What if you're leaving someone's house after dark you'd tell him 794: Goodnight. Interviewer: Do you ever say good night when you first see him? 794: No. Interviewer: And now could you start counting slowly? 794: This which? Interviewer: Now would you start counting, slowly. Up to fifteen. 794: Start to counting, well what? Interviewer: Yeah start counting up to fifteen. 794: Fifteen? Well, you'd start at one you see. Interviewer: Well, go on go on and do it. 794: Yeah. Y- you'd start at one. two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen. Interviewer: And the number after nineteen? 794: Be twenty. Interviewer: And twenty-six? 794: After twenty-six be twenty-seven. Interviewer: And after twenty-nine? 794: Thirty. Interviewer: And after thirty-nine? 794: Thirty-nine forty. Interviewer: And after sixty-nine? 794: Seventy. Interviewer: And after ninety-nine? 794: A hundred. Interviewer: And nine hundred ninety-nine? 794: A thousand. Interviewer: And ten times a hundred thousand? is one 794: Million. Interviewer: And if there's some people standing in line, the person at the head of the line is the? What person in line? 794: Is the is the head leader. Interviewer: Or he's not the last, he's the 794: Not the last he's the uh Interviewer: If he's the number one person in line, he's not the last person in line 794: No he's the first. Interviewer: And behind him is the 794: The second. Interviewer: And keep going. 794: Third. Fourth. Fifth. Sixth. Seventh. Eighth. Ninth. Tenth. Eleventh. Twelfth. Interviewer: And now can you name the months of the year? 794: January. {NS} February. March. April. May. June. July. August. September. October. November. December. Interviewer: And the days of the week? 794: Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. Sunday. Interviewer: What does sabbath mean? 794: Oh well uh that's Sunday. Sunday that's that uh the day you're supposed to go to church. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: And uh of course for to serve the Lord you're supposed to serve the Lord every day. Seven days a week. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Suppose to serve the Lord Monday same as Sunday. {NS} But there some people they go to church and course they sing and they pray and and listen to the preacher preach and all and and they they feel they the love of the Savior more than they do sometimes of a Monday or any other day of the week when they out a working. They gon' have their mind on their work you see whatever they was doing. Interviewer: What would you call a whole lot of rain that just suddenly comes down? 794: Flood. Interviewer: Anything else you could call it? 794: Well uh Interviewer: You'd say we had a real 794: Real flood or real large rain or real hard rain. Interviewer: #1 Do you ever hear # 794: #2 Uh overflow. # Interviewer: Huh? 794: A overflow now now that's hard rain that's in low land you see overflows is. But Interviewer: What about a cloud burst or pour down or 794: Pouring down a rain. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: They're pouring down, just a just a flood. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What if there's thunder and lightning in it? You'd call it a 794: Well uh you'd call it kind of a {NS} Where there's thunder and lightning and wind you'd call it a hurricane. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: And uh where it uh blowing down the timber of a house and all you'd call that storm. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Is there thunder and lightning in 794: Thunder and lightning in uh and a wind a blowing. Interviewer: What if it's raining but not real hard? You'd call it just a little 794: Just a shower. Shower or a sprinkle. Interviewer: What's the difference? 794: Well a sprinkle and a shower Oh oh oh a shower is a little heavier than a sprinkle. Sprinkle that's just a light. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Light rain you see and small drops of rain. And a shower it's it's a little more thicker rain and heavier, larger drops Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Than a sprinkle is. Interviewer: What if it lasts a long time? Like maybe all day? Just kind of slow. 794: Well that's a slow steady soaking rain. Interviewer: Do you ever call it a drizzle? 794: Yeah, when it's i- i- i- just showering along or light sprinkle light like a sprinkle that's kind of a drizzle like. Interviewer: How long does a drizzle last? 794: Well sometimes it drizzles for two or three hours, probably half a day. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: And sometimes it don't drizzle over thirty minutes. Fifteen to twenty, something like that. Interviewer: What if it's real fine, you can hardly see it. 794: Fine mist. Interviewer: And if you get up in the morning and can't see across the road, you'd call that a? 794: Fog. Interviewer: Huh? 794: Fog. Interviewer: Oh what kind of day would that be? 794: Well it'd be uh uh cloudy uh cloudy day or it'd be uh foggy kind of like smoky. Smokes that you couldn't see very far out from you. that there'd be called a foggy day. Foggy weather.