Ex-.elaVs Storiee	Page Two
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Pappy wae a b1~bodied man a~id on Sunday inornin hed git out of bed and make a bi~ fire and say, Jimmy cripes! You chilien stay in vou beds and Ill make de biscuits.  He would, too. I laughs when I thinks bout dem big, ry. bis-P cuits, what was so big we called dem Nigger heels. Dey aho was big biscuita, but dey was good. We never did git no butter, thou~  and sometimes we  d ask the white chilien to giv. us a piece of biscuit with butter on it. We gt plenty other eats ~ sliced meat and roastin ears and sweet milk.

	After freedom pap~ty sent us to school to de white teacher, and dats why I can read. and write. I went to de sixth grade and. quit. Pappy was drinkin a lot then. Hed take alctol and mix it with lasses and water. But he was good to us. S0inetities a Texas norther come up and wed be on the way home and wed see something eomin what look like a elephant and tt was pappy, with a buncil of coats.

	I ~ was twenty-four years old when I married Andy ~nt on and he j es  rented fartas here and yonder. #. had a big weddin and pork and turkey arid cake, Aunt Lucy &tbbard, what weighed three hundred potinds, done de cookin dat day. We had. such a good t ime nobody lcnowed when one de g~xests at oie a whle turkey.

	I was ~tother of aine chilien and. three of dem is livin now. Andy madsa purty good livin till he had. a aral sis stroke. Poor old feller! In de end, I took care of him and. had to work like I was yo~ ~ng again. I cut wood and carried water and. washed and cooked. I had to feed. him.

	UI owns iiy place here. It am twelve acres and p~py bought it long ago for $25.00 de aols. My sister lives here too, and my eon, Howard, cornea home sometimes, but he  e got e ight houn  dogs he can  t feed. . I sho  can  t feed dem on dat $11.00 pension what I gits.