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	The subject of this sketch Richard Bruner,is one of the oldest negroes in Saline County. He claims to be ninetyseven years old and lives in the little town of Nelson. r

	His humble dwelling, a gray and weathered frame building of about four rooms and two porches, sets in a square of yard thick with blue grass, old fashioned flowers like holly hocks, flowering piiilcs and marigolds making bright spots of color. Heavily laden fruit trees; apples  peaches  p2i~IIIS and pears shade every part of the plot . A splendid walnut tree towers over the smaller fruit trees, the house and the porch1while at the side of the house a garden spot contains a fine varie. sty of vegetables.

	As the writer approached, the old man was. seated on a cot on the little porch. The wall back of him was hung with all kinds of tools, a

~	saw, a hammer, bits of wire, a piece of rope, part o~ a bridle, and a wing  apparently from a big gray goose . His long ~ curling  gray hair is

neatly parted and brushed and he wears a mustache and short beard or chin Whiskers, an unusal thing among negroes in this part of the count3711 His skin is a ii~ht brown color end hiE eyes bright With his second eyesight which enables him to look on the wo~) witho~t glasses.

..	~ Back ~ ~ hot~~ and dWi~ the hill  ~ is a well equipped slaug~er
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