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SOUTH CAROLTSA WR/THRS* PROJECT
LIPS HISTORY
TITLE, TH1 COLLINS FAMILY.
Date of First ftiting
Name of Personsinteriewed
Street Address
Place
Oecupation
MO* of Writer
lime ef Menieor
TM! COLLINS FAXILY.
January 2, 1939
Jules Collins
and eon, Jim (Colored)
82 Collins Street
Fairmont, S. C.
Mill worker (picker roam)
Ruth D. Henderson
District Office
Jules Collins lives in one of the little four -room "negro
houses" provided for the colored help of the Fairmont Mill. Fragments
of deep red paint still sling, after twenty years or more, to this
little cottage tie& stands on a high knoll which affords a grand view
of Middle Typo:, River. The few colored people employed by the mill
company are segregated, and dwell on this elevated locality.
Jules, his son Jim, Jim's wife and her small son are the
only ether occupants of the house. The walls of the unpainted and
musty front room are almost covered with a variety of things a
bettered guitar, a toy airplane, calendars dating several years
back old pictures of the departed, receipts for everything from
cow feed to payments an the little table radio, a general collection
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of old costa and hats, and numerous other imaller article,. rvery
'reek in the floor is visible through the worn linoleum rug which
ewers the middle part of the room, and the and froesthe red hills
of the village has supplied a coating of dirt which has been eronnd
into the floor *mod the edges of the carpet. Jules and his fesdly
do much of their "Milne during the winter months an a small laun-
dryheaterobish esoupiee space before the fire -place. The fire-
place is maimed with a pie*s af tin through which an opening admit*
the stovepipe. A "passel* of firewood, coal, and kindling in piled
up on the beer*, mad several buckets of ashes and pots are scattered
around under the eteve.
The Only pie** of modern ftrniture in the rmns is the
radio. An old phonograph, the kind used about twenty years ago,
sits as one tremor of en antiquated waihstandi old books and papers
fill the rest of the space an it. A trunk and an old 'sewing nachine,
too, hold enough old clothes and newspaper* to reach haMway up to
the web-eovered soiling. Other furnishings of the roam consist of
two double bolds end a few straight chairs. A door an one side of
the roam permits a partial view of the kitchen. Through its opening
saw be seen a dining table, and an old lop.sided safe, the panels
of latch are node of perforated tin. The gay colored table cloth
had much the same appearance as the mantle of a Gypsy fortune teller.
Various soured tumblers and plates also adorned the table.
"Uncle" Jules smiles wanly in his ramshackled dwelling-:
and constantly repeats his nhiloeoPhy in these verde, 'You know
you has to do de best you can." His features are tyeieally African.
He is short, black, and moon-faced with a stubby bese'd thnt curls
on the ends. His, hair is of the same color and texture as his
beard. leen he smiles he shows his only teeth, and as he says,
"one pints neth and t*other soith", but he forgets tn add thnt
he would have to be looking in a westerly direction.
Business recently occasioned my paying Jules a visit.
A smile passed over his face When I milked in, and he nuehed his
chair back to a more comf'ortable position, in readiness to hoer
what he anticipated as gltd news. His appearanee represented a
picture of sheer poverty. 7-:o place could be seen on his tattered
overalls that had not bean patched and repetched. Only a few
shreds of cloth fell Pram the collar of ehat was once a shirt to
the bosom of his overalls. Not a single button coull be eeen
an his garments, but a safety pin dangled here end there from
every other button hole. He puahed aside his hone-mede cap
and scratched his grey head.
N.as," he said, "'cone I ain't disaepoihtea.
but I shoe thought you euz one den weer from de av'nent offices.
You looks jest like Miss can't call her none now, but I bet
you Imam who she is. Yes, I put in fer my pension last 17aroh 9,
but I ain't weir hyerd a word yet. I thought ehen I seed you
coming dey euz sending at last to 'vestigate no. Pen emeen take me
in a little roam and ax me all de questions dey can think of; den
dey say somebody would be sent out to Ivestieete. I extern if dere'm
anything else dey want to knew, and day Ilew t'vern't nothing else:
but dat's de last I ever hyerd frum it.
"Oh yesemm, Ilse old enoueh to get tie nension, ell rirht.
Ilse been twine on sixty-4"ive ever since 1 -ive it to 'em in ere
last March. We maned up my age and ?ound dat I ma been 'bout
time de war mug over when dey freed de slaves, you knoe.
emit by Mr. Gaston an -1 told him to ax 'em if dey had any pleas
arinst me. I knows too much to be sassy don't it no viler
dat way. Day jest say dat dare's nothin0 wrong, and dat's all
I know to die dey. You know you jest has to do fle bee' you can
and dat's all.
"I don't 'member nothin' of slavery time, fer dat's
'bout the time I wuz bean, but 'coee I'se hyard merry end papey
talk 'bout de war soretines. I mut one or lttle "-r'reetTeen".
My many ruz a slave of old aen'al uiller dat lived damn at
Moore's. 7,1y peppy, he belonged to Mrs. Van -eke, but he changed
his mace to Collins dates wuz his pa's name 'ter he me a
free man. Sege spell it wid a 'F'. enfi -ion some spell it les
like Collins' lee Five. Then't nake no diff'uns.
"My nanny and poppy xot Inftn-1:3-d they z sot Pr -e.
Vete
hyard talked how del married back clan; so m say dot dey jumped
over brooms and things like dat, but hit euz all changed time
got big enough to get narried. Mmney said de !slaves euz treated
purty good and dey had plenty to eat, but dey had to work nighty
hard. When Iv= a little chap, I used to ro to do ilasareth Church
with my mammy holding my hand. ',se 'embers rirht good. De
colored folks all sot in a corner to dereelves. i-eid ems de
Nat nan I ever hyard preach. He oreached f.iar at Laaareth for a
long time. I kneeled his son well. His name "::r. 7ihit, and he's
one of domnon dat measures off Land ourvrlyors, dat's it.
*De slaves worked troun.„: de house rer a wi1e tter
day's sot free. I used to be one of do little :;ouse-bays for
Yr. Joel Millar. Attar I got elder way sant no ::own in de low
lands to rake hit do bos' :les could. ';:ose, d rezi, of tem had
to git out too. Day bad to narnish everrthing an de land; and
de slaves, or dam dat had been slaves now freedmen got one-
third of What dey made. ::!hol eus hard tines bee,: in den days,
and the houses den leas nada of hewin loge, wid a door in me side
and winder in ttother. Jest plain old mu-'. -ous dabbed in de cracks
to keep out de cold and rain. All de cookini7 was did on rroa:t;
big open fireplace. Dey used pets and ovuns to cook in. Coals
aus raked out' &i de fireplace and do oven sot an en.; den sone
coals piled upon tor de oven, too. I'se
eatings cooked an de open f'irP.
cne
"In de fields dey raised jest 'bout that dey does now.
I'se made a good hand in de wheat fields Ilse been cradling all
ny life. De cradle has a whole pasel of fingers on hit, and you
jest sweep hit along and cut de wheat. De binder cones along and
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stacks hit up, don do stacks is put in de stooks, atter dat hit's
carried to de thrasher. *Coes, dem, tines done ohanged now fait
dey used yoke mono den day used horsepower, and now day uses engines
to pull de machinory.
wAr fust memory be when I was sont out to *thin grass*
and tote water. Dot's vhst de little younguns had to do. Poo went
to seheol jest a little, but soaes Itee got bii enough to work, den
day seat us to de fields. Tina got fifteen lose node a good hand,
and I been et bit nitht near ever sinoo. I had brothers and sisters
dat helped out on de fern. but soon as day got big enough to leave
day scattered out and /Ise Gantt give no *count of *mina,. I had
three or to' sisters, dire naves was Sally, Emily, and !retie. Had
*bout to* brothers, too, I think:. Les* soot Mika. Nelson, Henry,
Mese dat's right, Adsat. dot's was five. Mike's de oldest,
he vus been, I *epees. *bout foltyafive."
juice was neve interested in finding out about his pension
than he was in relating his life history. At every opportunity he
would inquire, *What you ulnae -day gwine do *bout us old folks?
Looks like time is Ites be hearing sonething frum dat pension nmney."
Thom relueiwrady he would !Narrow his brow and try hard to recall his
early life.
*When Itse vas 18 yoars old, Ilse had to start paying road
tax. I paid dents= an and an 'ti]. I done got two year* past de are
*fore Its* knawed hit. I told Mr. goofs Gaston and he vent end seed
Mr. Harper, and he do one dat got no off de tax."
'Melo Julie, did thaw ever pay you beak for the extra
money that yes hed paid?*
ads, that limy gwintor do dat for? Besides, that I
dome tits mr !Wilt. I Should* amid 'bout hit.
'When us bands used to be working 'guy do tn in do bottoms
an de farnwPons dwaLt eons to de bore for oats. De cook cant hit
to us. We had men* to set meet de tine had lots of corn breads
pees or Urns, and de liks or dat. depose no spring was close 'bout
*hareems meshed den day brought water for us, too. We had a well
at do house roes. de, usederope videbueket tied to one end,
like dey still does somstimee. Den boring tells jest cone out in
do las few years, me didn't knows nothinl of 'ex don.
*res, I 'sleet& times is totter$n day used to be in some
toys. If a person got as nosh as twenty-five cents a day, doy
thought dat was a thole 1st of sansy. ?rouble now is too many
people tee to one to that limy used to be. lby, then I Ault
VINO here, din use no basses eaten, hard];y„ i)erets five or
six to one house hers In Fitment to thst dare yams then I comes
here. So new Mimes= dantt knees haw in de world day is ell
guise to be took= eare of day Jest pine hero, dire, snd
everftherss.
ain't never so snob as been outtm de county but one
tine datums bete' I savvied. I 'elided to go to Asheville, so
I sot out yelling. I lest welted to go end see a little of do world.
When I got to Landrum I 'suited for de gravel train. I eus aiming to
°eta it and ride de rest of de may, but dot train got off de tracks
sone plass dean de VW and never did ease; so I had to walk all de
wily. I She felt like /mug gitting oaten de world when I got dare.
Pest man I seed an de street as Mr. Dews Cohen, from 'round where
I eus he one den Republieens. ah, dat's a men dat can lawfully
marry people end sign papers and things like lo dat. He egret
wbot you doing ley up here, no 'Bey?' I fool kina
tent like, and I say dat I jue leaking 'round de world a little.
I milked on a little pi eee and stepped in a restuarent and *no
does I see? Meho4, but *a. John Ihtoklerath he marry ane of my
mistress' daughters. told him idler /Ise gems gwine to stay and
everlthing so be could tell mr folks back home, in case dey jest
vented to track atter me for samethint or n'other.
!Nell, I done jest a little of 4rrerething while I wus
in Asheville. Pest job I landed vas in a quarry dat's whar dey
blasted reeks out lo de ground. Pee got fifty cents a day den,
as hired help was hard to find. Atter dat, dey put me to cooking
for de men in de camp whar day slept and et. I stayed up dire in
Asheville trio August till Christmas eve. Ilse nue kinda gittin'
homesick and hit gob so cold up dere Isee figgered de bee' thing
for ne to downs maim my 'my back home. I got myself all bundled
up end vest down to de station, but stopped at a frolic for
a spell. De "rind got to blowing Lawd, how hit blowed."
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sore Mode Julie rounded his thick Iipm and made a bussing
sound, imitating the mind. We had heard of people getting anew -bound
and this was his main reason he later admitted for leaving "so
sudden like".
*I said to myself, I says, 'Jules, chile, hit's high time
you'se gifting to +1st station'. So's I struck out. Well, when det
train pulled in, it was kivered with snow as deep as my hand. Den
sheet lime it started to peppering snow all over de place, end wus
I glad to git an de train. never gladder in my life. Ay de time
me got to Spartanburg, de mos mus two hands high on top of de
train, but hit mug *ginning to rain here. net jot goes to &Jae
you de difflune in do alinate of le two places. Us don't have
no big gnaws deem here like Asheville folks do. I bet hit's
snowing up dire right dim minute.
rreerntet long after I 40118 back 'fore T. got married.
Dat's ahem mr trouble righlay sossesneed. 'Nor since den I she' is
had hard times Leedy„ hit's been something awful. 'Cose, for de
rust twelve or thirteen years we got 'long aorta smooth sailing like.
During die time our ehillums mu: been. Rut atter dat, things got
wormer and verse?.
New, date ir wife's nese, she jest got so she wasn't
satisfied no plies no time. Atter while she got so she wouldn't
'tend to de ehillums end atuldn't do northing awtall. Jim,hete,
he'll tell you de same thing. He knew* I jest as good to 14ney
as I could be to pr mempr. We knows I had a hard time."
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°Dates she' is right, Ilse don't like to say hit 'cause she's
my mammy", said Jim. "I had to lam n to cook and do mirht nigh every-
thing a woman has to do 'round di house. Pee little Roxie, dates my
sister's name, had to make bread when she had to clamb up in a chair
to reach de table. Yes, us all shoe had a hard time; den dare's Joe
he's my brother who is 'round two years younger don me, he went
and most lost his mind and we had a awful time slid him."
"Way hit was irid Nancy," Jules continued, "atter so long a
time she immt plumb °raw. 5he talked 'bout eating jay birds and
e tch crazy talk. She pot so bed dat everybody rot soared of her,
'keine we couldn't tell what might happen. 'Coss I wasn't 'neatly
feared of her, but tainet no use taking big chances. One time shr4
got utter some folksees ahillun and runed hit all over the place;
right den and dere we knowed she had to be sant off.
"Seas went to Spartanburg and seed the sheriff, and he
got same doctors to examine Nancy, and day nay she Shoe wus craw.
Jest to sake deireelf evinced, though, day kept her in sail fir a
day or two. Day out her in a cell void a 'nether woman to watoh
and wee what would happen. De other woman wus not crazy but 'wus
in jail far stealing some jewelry, I think and she say to
Nancy, elflurt fir you in here' Den Nancy say, 'Mat fer you went
to know, and moreen det, what you doing in dis here jail?' The
sheriff is listenine all de time, peepine through a hole to see
how Nancy would sot. Nancy grebe the women and day tangle up;
fust Isneyge on top, den the other woman, up and down, 'round and 'bout.
De other woman eommenees to call for help and day had to take Nancy
out and put her in one den solitary cells. Next day day sit her
off to Columbia.
"Oh les,m, she got bettor and come beck. ','hen I got de
word she vus coming beak home, I sont for or in c buggy. 3oniebody
had seed her on de road heading rer home, dot's why I sent rer her.
'When she come home, I say, grancy, I vent a little talk wid you'.
I wanted to see *hat kind 0 rind she elm in. So re walked up de
road and talked far a spell. I told her IT had forty dollars in
ma. pocket, and if she would come hone and stay and do like he ought
to do, I would rive her de money to buy her some new clothes and
anything else she wanted to low with it. nut she only ocy to me
dat if I had dat much money I outht to spend it an de chilluns.
She say dat she gwine get herself n job 000leirg some place and
den she could buy her own Clothes. he say, too, dat she din't
vent to fool 'round no hewn and dat she would come and ot hr
younguns. So Nancy got a job cooking for a lady dat lives over
yonder on de hill. Den one day Nancy cones back home and axes de
chillune whet day 'tends to do. Day's knows Nancy ain't 'aponsible
for her actions, sots day tell her day gwinna stay "rid deir peppy
and dat her place is Mos vid her chilluns.
'Veil, Nancy never did come back atter dot, not e'en
*hen she got sick. You know What dat woman went and married
agin, shot did. Den she went doer egin and got past going.
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Rents shall *twirl,/ her nanny through all ol her devilishment; she
vent and vetted an her till the died. Den Roxie one back home,
but hit eaglet long atter dat Ramie got married and moved off from
us for goad. She moved up de reed 'bout two miles an de Anderson
place and she's been thar ever slime."
Jules sited the time his wife had been dead by calcu-
lating the tins that Ramie had waited on her at the different places
*here eke hates* and had taken sick. Altogether he figured that
it had been *beet six years sines she died. *Uncle Jules" could not,
though be tried very hard, resell in order the incidents of his
lift an the fern er an the will hill. To the best of his knowledge
hi bad beee living around Fairmont Mills about twmy years. mhen
he and his family first moved there, mill help was scarce. They
had been an the fern and because Uncle Jules" vas in declining
health, end also bemuse they thought that they could mike more
mammy in the nill, end mould not have to work so hard. A Ur. Gib.
can and a librs Thelma mere it. gentlemen" who were instrumental
in getting Jia and Jae Jobe as picker* it the Fairmont Mill.
When Jules beeene eonfnsed, him eon Jim, eho had been a silent
listener, ter* up the story.
Jim is a very large Negro. He, too, is black, and his
bead is covered with a mass of kinky hair. He bears little resem,.
blame to his tither, if indeed, Jules is his father. Jules said
that he "olaimed" his children, but that certain conditions kept
him from being certain. Mahan a narked characteristic of explain-
ing everything he tells by notions of his hands. He goes so far as
to get out of his shair to *Ws the actions of Mime about vhom
he is talking.
"Our farming days gnus hard ones, I'll tell you. /Way
back yonder durint de World nikr," Jim began, nmy peppy wus runned
out from a white gentleman's house jest 'cause he wouldn't tell
a lie ter him. You see, din potions!) had a cow and she vent
and got out and gits into smother white gentleman's crop and jest
'bout it it all up* So he tells ir nippy dat if he don't swear
dat hit vus not his cow, but vus somebody else's cow, dat he will
have to move off his plass. Dis not all he does, he sets the law
on me fer net jining the ear. He had a son dat jined erld he didn't
vent him to. He claimed dat I'd been dodging hit, but dat ain't so.
Day comes and gets mm all right, and puts in in the calaboose.
Didn't dey, Peppy! Dat's not the vurse part of it; dey fined us*
You see, dire vus more dan me in hit. 'War dodgers' dat's what dey
called us. Den we had to pogy a fine of fifty dollars apiece.
Atter impose git out of de jail dey 'mine us and everything and
den the men sends us ham to vett for a 'cell card' that never
in
come, jest like peppy's fold age pension he pat/ter, hit never cone
ytt, either."
With this last sentence, he lets out an obstreperous laugh.
Jim had been reticent, but now his mood had suddenly ohanged and he
'seated to talk. Jim's temperament is quite different from that of
Jules. He *Ales almost continuously and keeps his hands and arms
in notion all the time he is talking.
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Questioned about his early life, an said, "I never went
very for in wheel, 'bout de fotth grads, Itse specs. You see,
since mammy mid Me' wasn't stayint together, I had to take de part
of de woman. I had to help brang up Ramie; den I anus had to be
takint ears of Jae, tkaisa his mind uus bad. I want 'round an de
hill and worked for white folks when I had any spare time. I used
to scrub dere floors for do., and dey got so day called as 'do little
salersd Salts Day liked mr ',rubbing 'keine Ilse git de floors jest
as obit* as snow. Den when it. through wid one house, dere allus
be somebody waiting for me to ro to dere house and scrub. Ault I
puts soap in het muter and lets it malt; don I gits as a bucket of
send and /sots it real good and thrums it an the floor. Atter dst
I pots de hot eater an de sand and starts to work. Dot's de best
way in de world to git a floor clean hit shot makes 'em shine.
Day all tells as dist I dots a sped job. SONO gtred we a dims,
end some, fifteen eents."
"Jim, I would like to know something about Joo. 'Where
is he nom?'
'Well, Joe, he mus allus toff' a little bit, but as he
got older he got "purse. I allus tried to keep him in and not
even let him out in de yard tkaise white girls wus &feared of him
an tcount of him laughing at dam, but once in a while he gets out
anywey, best I could do. One day while Ilse at work, Joe slips
out of de house and goes down to de mill store and as he vus such
a big, strong, and believed -crazy person, all de people runned out
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and leaves de 'tore mid him. He picks a long meat knife up from de
meat block and lays hit aeross his arm and walks 'round and 'round
looking at different things. Vt. Nat Thomas, card room boas, comes
up to de picker roam and tells me 'bout Joe. I'se maned down to
de store es fast as I could, but stopped as I reach** de door and
peers through de crack fir knoms Joe has a long knife and Ilse
didn't 'ant to enrage him* I stands and watches him. He walks
over to di radio and turns hit on and walks over and picks up a
big bottla of ginger ale. All die time, T'se matching and thinkinl
hew to git to him. Somethins gived me strength,so'a I walked to de
deer and I tells him to lay de knife back on de neat block* No 'out
a little slow in doing hit, but final he 'bayed and laid hit down.
DOI I say, Vogl, what fir you leave d4 house?' Den he say, 'Jim,
you's ain't wad mid me for leaving, air you? I jest having a little
fun.' Den I say, 'Cosa not Joe, you ain't did any crime.' noticed
dot Joe had kept dat ginger ale so's I said to Him, 'Joe, lets go
out yonder under dat big tree and drink dat ginger ale.'
"Well, me went out and sot doun under de big tree and
esamancom to talk, far I knows good and mall dat de white folks
done gone to town atter de law. If Joe knowed what I did, a pack
of hounds couldna (latched him. Hit won't long 'fore I hears a
oar motor and I know* right den dat day's coming atter him* Joe's
ming dean* *Ind when de cars drives up, jest looks at me kinda
sad like.
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*Den the pollee comes and grabs Joe by de arms two on
each side of him but hes suoh a powerful man and jest throve 'ern
off, jest like you could a baby; den he starts to git up and 'fore
he does I's* knocks his feats out from under him, den de law nailed
him good and stighty. Dey pate him in one of dare oars and carries
him to do Spartanburg County Jail Idlere he stets till peppy goes
to de judge and gits de permits papers ses day can send him to
Columbia. Dat wee threireire ago. Ilse vent down to see him lest
ono* since he's been dere. Duet vms my fust trip to Columbia, too.
It's ain't never been neny places, and never did ride on 4 train.
lie, ridden the P. AI., though, and de fast tine I rid, hit sho'
did scare do fool out'n ma. Hit started so quick dat hit slinged
me right over do seat; den 'hen hit stopped, it night near broke
my make. De fast is, all de places I'se been is Campobello,
Greenville, Pelham, Forest City, Gaffney, and Columbia."
Jim confesses to being superstitious; and he tells of
trip to SparUnAnnv with his foreman, Mr. Thomas. He and Mr. Themes
were on their w ey dove the road just the other side of Fairmont then
a black out ran in front of the oar. He said that he asked Mr.
Thomas to turn around and go soma other way because a black oat was
the sign of certain bad luck. Mr. Thomas just laughed at Jim's
warning. ?awn they arrived in Spartanburg, Mr. Thongs became
suddenly ill and had to se* a doctor. He was havift chill after
chill. Finally. thinking that he was all right, Mr. Thomas and
Jim started back how, but more bad luck atruok then. A tire
blew out. Jim got out and proceeded to fix the puncture. He hadn't
quite finished it, when Mr. Thomas called to him to hurry because he
thought that hewn going to have another spell. Expressing it in
Jim's words, "Sols I'st jest throve the patch an hit ono hurries
to get Mt. Thames home. And you linage abate r. Thomas wus in bed
severll days utter dat. But still dat nan don't believe dat black
oat wns 'sponsible for our's bad luck, but I shot do. I 'se allus
did know mad st1us till know dot black oats is bad luck, Teem, and
I ain't newer going to change my mind, either."
At this point Jim looks at the clock on the mantel and
remarks that it's about time for hint to get down to the mill. He
opens the door and says, 'Ione sho' hopes dat dey don't do peppy
an bad as dey did me 'bout sending no a 'call card' for going to de
var. Do's you think dat he'll ever git dat pension?"
"Of course, he'll get it, but they nay be some time getting
around to it. You see, there are probably a hundred ahead of him.
But Iau eertain that he will, in the near future. By the way, Jim,
if you don't mind telling me, what do you make in the mill? Is it
vary mush more compared with the farm wages that you remember?"
"wells I'll tell you, Miss, hit shoo did work de life
outsu po' old peppy dar on the farm. 'Case I'se works pretty hard
here in de mill, but hit ain't hurt as none. I'se nakes 38 same
weeks, dat's when I is cant out and don't get in full time. I say
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hit's betteron living on de farm 'tar you jas to pet up way 'fore
day. Nero Ilse sleep late as I manta to in de morning as I dan't
has to go tows* eta 2130 in de evening. I'se specs hit is jest
'bout that time now. Won't you all come back agin and we can have
'nether talk? Ilse enjoys talking to nice folks like you all, and
I alio' did enjoy de one we jest had.' Jim roes down the steps and
says, "Came *gin. fir I'll be 'spatting you, and goes an down to
the road, turns around and waves his hand.
The visitor, turning around to see 'at has happened to
'Opole Jules', finds him fast asleep lying across the bed. Vhat a
coomfortable figure ho presents sprawled upon the bed. He is now
silent as tomb, yet mhon awake, very spry for his seventy -odd
years. Uimust dreaming a beautiful dream, for a sidle is pleying
an his Chubby bearded fees. Nothing remains for the visitor to do
but to bid htm 'good -sight' in a whispered voice, and close the
door upon the seems.