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TITLL
Date of First Writing
Name of Person Interviewed
Fictitious Name
Street Address
Place
occupation
A HAP?! FALIILY
January 16, 1939
Reverend T*A. Snyder (White)
William Wiley
Second Avenue
West Columbia, S. C.
ptist Preacher
3iene of Writer Aattie T. Jones
imme of evisor State uffiee
The Ailey house, built of hand -pressed brick, is conspicuous
in a neighborhood Vlore small frame ootta,es are the rule. A hed6e
borders the yard, and shrubbery has been planted at the front and sides*
walked up to the door, painted ivory, as is all the woodwork of
the house, and ran the bell. Ar. wiley answered the bell a tall, erect,
frail...looking man of about fifty years of ace and with a noticeable limp
in his step. his bushy hair, originally brown, was streaked with gray,
and his brown eyes lighted as he recocnised us.
"Well, I declare, if it isn't „es. stevens. Como richt in. Aow are
2.
you todee It's lovely day to be gadding aro, tv .it
me sees" and his thoughts mane fast as he pandered just where we should
sit. "I knee. W4111 go to the kitohen." And .:-.4** wilezi led the laNy through
the living rooms ettrective with heriteood floors and tasty furnichio6ss
in-
to the back hallo Li. talked as he MOUto '-Jiley and a 64v411. or women
are having some wort of a meeting in the etudv mhere we
think the kitchen is etill warm. amestly, you won
sit, and
a bit?"
The kitchen was noatly furnished, a blAek and. White oolor aohaua
having been used. The sun oame strea=linc in at the window ond heiditened
its cheerful atmosphere
"You'll please excuse me for misetinc you in mv shirt sleeves and
without a collar and tie. I was Just fixing to shave when the door boll
rang,. Jr. Wiley oantinueds as he informelly took his ooat from the beak
of a ahair and put it an. ii. lit his pipe as we were seated about the small
stove.
This never.vmav•aretrac4, sort of tellers soon made 7011 feel at home,
and you at once bean to wonder if you hadn't ',Joon friends for ye.
Finally, the oonversetion drifted to former visit that had been inter..
rupted because of a previous encacAment of r. ;iley
mlla let me see. Did you find the rorga i told :i4s4 abet the other
dey? And did you get all those stories writtea ftlroaAV
'Yes, we found them all riEht and eolle gOod storieu. ut weve
(some this wrninc to have you tell us sceisthin about :oursolf. You will,
of aourse.'
"Nos strives Not lot somebody tdials done soisthiai worth ttla.
There are scores of 'n around in these diiva. &mei
hairs?
3.
Lowey moray, who vas it? He ought to he shot for Ananias or Sapphire. What
you going to charge as for this awns'? Nothing? Well, than what'll you
dharge as to let as get out of itl"
A short, plump, teenage girl, with a lovely complexion, soft brown
won, and wavy brown hair passed through the hall, holding her books under
her left arm, 'Daddy, the telephone.'
"Yes, I'm going in about an hour,' we heard this pastor say to the
parishioner, "Glad to have you and Ars. Smith 6Q with me. I'll be by
for you about 4 o'clock. Good-bye.'
Mhan he was seated again, he said, "That was Aabel, our second
daughter, and she's a whole team. They call her 'Little Willy.' I bet
she knows everybody in that school by name and talks to everybody every
day. Lord, she's a plum mess. She's in the tenth grade, and recently the
prinoipal walked in one morning and asked Aiss Johnson, 'What about Abel
Miley? Is the a pretty good girl?' 'Yes, ehl's a good student and as
clever as she can be.' The girl sitting next to Idabel heard her say, as
she throw up her hands, 'Lord, teach her better. Ay heart was in py throat.
thought she was going to tell him the truth."
'Now, Lloyd, that tall, lean, lanky 6 -foot something you saw pass
with his breeches rolled up above his knee, he has a one-track mind and
is oonoerned with only one thing in this world, and that's riding a oi-
cycle. He's a professional cyclist,
ever found he wants to do. Johnny's
up with him in school. It's nip and
teacher haw in the heck she can pass
I'm telling you. That's all I've
three years younger, and he's caught
tuck with 'em now. I've asked his
Lloyd in Ln0Ash. The other day he
looked out of a window and called to a oj, 'Jim, oone on in.
I ain't
quite ready. I se-ed you soon as ygu turnt the corner. I knowed it
IONs you soon as I see-ed the red bicycle.' Land sakes, 1 wuldn't ive
him a zero. But he's lots like his daddy, a reotlar chip off the old
block. I declare.
"Johnny's the baby and his mother's pet. .L.00ks just like her, too
with those big blue eyes and dimples in :xrth ocks. Doesn't like any
petting outside the home, though. Tells is ,:other the ooys will all him
a sissy. He's the serious member of the family.
"Lord, weman, you don't want to know notn a,004t this roi. Yeu
better go find somebody who's worth soaethluL. You see we were trhels.
I was born in Rutherfordton, .Liorth carclina, back in 16W. father owned
a 200 -sere farm there, he taught school when he wasn't busy with the
:LAM
work, taught the three A's, you know. Zhose were blue -back speller das.
he started me off in that good old book we hear so mach about, but didn't
get to /baker'. 4 mother had only a casHon school education. i'armiwin
Vorth Carolina was in those days a pretty up -hill sort of business, and
making a decent living for eight children wasn't so easy. Lig r father wasn't
=liking ends meet, and he gave a little morti:ag,e on the farm. Vinally he
aided he could do better if he moved to a cotton n.tll and lot the farm go,
so we moved to Aenrietta ortth L4rolina. h& was thirty -fie years
"I began work in the mill when Iwes aeout fourteen
years old.
earned 20 cents a day; yes, na'am, 20 cents. L-orked in the card room,
ran drawints, and worked in the spinnini: rooi or years. o, that time
1 was makinc thirty cents and wearing brui-anB and jeans. ,y mother wove,
spun, and made the cloth, and then she made the pants for us Uoys. The old
loom is in the attic in my sister's hose mvfather lives, he is
eichty years old. 4y mother died several years ago at the (147;e of seventy-.
five.
"But mill folks just won't stazi t. c roved down to noekhart„ south
CArolina, and I earned sixty cents a day there doffing. 1 guess i made as
madh as twelve dollars a week before S left the millet'
As he stroked his ,ray hair, wisilsH fairly stood on end, he said,
daughter has just washed !ny hair.
nissed he eueess o beaaty parlor.
:AULIali has Oad eyes aad likes to uo lc that 00 Aso they don't re-
quire 0.080 vision. Wen se was ank see, :esrs old, she accidently fell
down two flit s of stairs. it
tatf. aS
aer optic nerve vac cosiplete-
ly shattered. *.the has been totally several tines and has had three
hospital experiences. ;Al, yes, she fin,i,:ed hif
narden. 1 declare I can never fer;et
:raw.8
school thanks to -Jr.
so katerested ie ties ease
and watched her with so mach concern. sew her recalarly ever: week and
assured us if he found study was aairr her, he'd let us lalint• .he ranked
to rot through ,thotk:,h And is a grand
"There the ladies eo now.
firs...shed their work in a j
tleir cossip is rarkod 'to be contin 7:ei-it till next tine, thouuh, Let tO
stove over to the study now; it will be sisre ccsIfortable,
This room was cozy in its si pie
cures11
a wicker divan, with
several rociSinc chairs to mateL sessn :sisel..ime, a &:rall cle, and
built-in 000k shelves at the loi siss shs avast/1piece* the -;ar.ntel
were SOAO slack vases, a cloces aad so 1iai relies. The floor was
covered wie linolees1 of rose- t-:1 ,Sa 01E11 •:11.1'r017 and attrac-
tive pictures nurse on the walls.
r. Wiley presented us to his -AA., a rather ilj; =nun with soft
blue eyes and light brown hair, in a print dressofigured in blue and
white. mess Miley presented us to her mother, massive in size, her snow-
white hair bobbed and her complexion like that of a school he yore
a soft, knitted jacket over an orchid -colored dress, with a cameo at the
neck. She had a wrist watch on her left arms and a gold bracelet on the
right. Mrs. Miley was making a yo -.yo spread and her mother a quilt of log
cabin design.
"I don't do much of this kind of thing, and mother doesn't like it
much better than I dos but neither of 411 is very well to -day, so we hauled
the sewing out of the closet," said Ars. Wiley. recuperating from
intestinal flu, and mother is suffering more than usual with asthma. Flu
is a treacherous thing, and I should go to the hospital for a thorough
check. hut when I'm inclined to go, I'm too sick, and when 1 ;€4.t better,
I hope I'm all O.K., and put it off. the aching tooth, a know."
"Alice, I'm pulling all the old skeletons out of the closet this after-
noon and parading them before Mrs. Stevens," ur. Wiley said, as he knocked
the toba000 out of his pipe for a re -fill.
"Well, so long as you stick to your text and don't tell on me and
mother, we have no objections."
Mabel came blustering into the roam, and, throwing her books on the
table with a bang, stood before the mirror combing her hair and applying
lipstick. After an exchange of greetings, she said in a sort of soliloquy:
"Boy friends? You should see my latest. Ae's six feet three inches. We
look like mutt and Jeff. Do I like school? Yeah, crazy 'bout the holi-
days. That am I going to do when I finish? liothing, like the rest of the
family." And she exchanged understanding glances with her father, whc
responded in an undertone, "Lord, is there no balm in ollead?"
*If yclii want to know about our family tree," abel continued, "T
can ell you the limbs are all dead. Don't see why you didn't come on a
6unday, we're all dressed up that day and look a little better. You want
to know if we're struggling. We just are, though. Jocu struggl indef-s
initely, and we're about to have to end it all. I've cot to go study for
those old exams. Gee, but I hate 'ell."
;Jr. Wiley moved over nearer to the stove, fastening his collar band
and
and putting on a green tie/resumed his story, "I haven't told you about
my job experiences. When I was making the climb to the hill to which we
all 0 sooner or later* I reckon I was about sixteen. Une day a bunch of
us boys bought a can of dynamite powder and went out in an old field to ex-
periment a little. I was bending over the can when one of the boys lichted
a piece of paper and threw it near the keg. ,ow: The whole thing blew up,
and I got the butt end of it. Great day in the morning. I was sure in a
bad fix. All my clothes were burnt off me from py waist up. only thing
saved me was my fleece underwear. 1 was a mile from any doctor and had to
walk to him. It was a bitter cold day. he fellows put 80A0 of their coats
on me, and off I went. Even my finger nails dropped off as I walked along.
Ay hair came off on sheets of skin. The doctor said it was a miracle that
I closed my eyes. For six weeks I suffered apmy, day and nic,ht. The
doctor out holes in a piece of cloth for py eyes, nose, and mouth and ap-
plied it to the burnt surface. The next morning he'd pull that piece off
and apply another. My mother begged him to let her grease it, but he
assured her I'd have scars if she did. There wasn't a sinil.e scar, but
my skin is still very tender. A friend said about the accident, 'some
men die and go to hell, but I be -dog if you didn't make you a hell witlout
'AS
dying.' The doctor ahareed about 1100, and Oad pe.id it. didn't have
that to worry about, thaillr coodness.
"1411, about a year later, Ium jerkin; odd& in a drut; store, an
the peanut percher exploded. Its too, ,:ot le in the face. Nnocked these
four sido...front teeth up two inches into RI., ?roe and (..tt this :ash on py
lip. jid it hurt qiir looks? No, it helped aw looke.
"You possibly noticed isi crippled. f,11.on the explosions
decided I'd co to (41arloston an an exa-cion. That nicht slept on
chair in the open and, when I waked ups ouuldn't tell wrili;ther 1 VELB
black or white. lionestis 1104 wored Tiith mosquitoes. went dovin
with hi)h fever. Doctor called it malarial, i had one convuls1on after
another. Thor, I wol:t one morninc and dia,:,--crod I couldn't :low hand or
foot. or six nanths I 'sue
Vinally I learned to walk on crutches and uziel them several LJonthu.
ride wild horses. Tried anythine and ever
4a Ivas IridiniL
up a storm,' and the horse threw le on tho cdpo of town, calsineto lu
erutChos. Oh, mus.I've had some exTerience:;.'
"have v -)12 tried awirranz/ or do you 1:e to Gilt 1?"
"Gee, d lilts to avidJa the Atlantic -ooar t L darod. nit Slire.S4
ten feet for crezzos,"
"tiells you have at 104).5'1; one thint; in co-illm with a reat• Think
write i3/4*. Aoosevelt a out yollr 1-s,oin to 11.:ra
P9are you to do it* Yo,1 knau anethia I surely do 1514o our re
That last mess je oi his oomplotel- won lid :nu hoar i
Glare, it was rest. 1 sec :10c coninc _NE24
tie
he ho in
here in October, and I looked into his fa....k:od him better than e7or.
He's taken care of the backwash all right.h
A neighbor dropped into the roam, a Ars. ,'ord.
said, "I
just call her tritip V-Ptil when she works in the 1,,dies aid to suit nej
but when she sorter slows down, I ehance it to
"I'm usually a T odel. Don't do much in the ehurch but keop acoat
warm. I do stand squarely behind these 4iley's. le all do, We think they
are wonderful folks."
"aother, we're having such a rood tile Ti1th the fclks, I declare,
I feel just like we ought to serve a little so;lcothal!:. oeca.cola
'round here?"
"Thank you very much, but we can't stay much ion era And, say, if
it's time for you to go on those visits, nacl-be you 11 your reputa-
tion with your wife."
"No, eir..reee kif011 tell the trut;',i on nos i'm Goin6 to stick
around here closer than Grant did around :ACImond till you leal-e. I didn't
marry till I was twentr-six, and Aloe ;maw cljte all the devil-
ment 1 did, anyway. Yes, I did 5311e• laven't quit 5..,; cal yet. ve
improved on sone of it, though. We were married in while Alice and
I were both working in the mill at Loekhart. unusual about the
ocurtship. No. No -thin-. I ust oeurted her nine nirhts out of a week
for two years before she'd consent to have Ie. Ilonoynr la? Not worth ven.•
tioning. We went to the preacher Sunday afternoon and bac1:: to work next
morninc•
"You nee I had stopped school in the ninth grade. rloys do sich foolish
thine, don't they? So I decided the best thing for :le to do was to go back
to school and graduate from :iii;11 school, ifat, 1:'e had done. I cot the
10.
job as janitor of the school, ad they paid me 4O a month. Alioe worked
some in the afternoons, and she earned 75 cents for that. Before the two
yeare ware over1 NO had two dhildren and it me touch, 1 tellinc rou,
but mv lived on that money and made no debt.
"While I was in schools= organised a little dramatic club. Vie Lave
plays and raised 460J with which we uo-.: u;e patntins for the school.
I vas &Inv, lilankfaue. iiimple Willy, or somethinc like that, the comedian
of the orowd. I did some fancy danoing, too. I haven't (pit all my fool
iehness yetr ilveral years ago. 1 vas in Newberry. And one aiLht about
12 o'clock, I pulled my hair down over my eye u and took off my °eller aad
tie and coat, lookinc as shabby as I could. Leauine ac,ainst the side the
house. Staring into the plate glass window, azinc at a suit of clothes* I
was ueoueted by a policeman. I drawled out, 'Good evenia', ir. oleesnaa.
Nish night. ainl Thash a good-lookint shit ololothes. Ain! it, r.
Foleoshman?'"
"'Yes, Looks ail richt."1
"'You reckon it'll fit i, my frianas
"Possibly so, but didn't come here to disousz clothos with you.
You're drttx* and goinf, to get into trouble, old man. have to arrest
you."
"'Arrest me'i Nos mair, I aim' draa.4. You cot the wrolk,: 1.7-,F.r. 7 sin'
even had a drink. I sure aia' darnik, eap'n.'"
"tiAl, yes you are drunk and you know it. Considor yourself undor
arrest," as he placed his nand an oy shoulder.
"At this moment. tho chief atepped from 'round the corner, and,
addreaeine the newly appointed policeman said, 'Jim, the Aan drunk.
U.
Bels a Baptist preadhers let his goo This is a
you a tryymoot0"
"taw, Chief, I'll be darned if be ain't drunk. 7es, sir. o's a
drunk ASU, if over I sew one. Why, I well whiskey au his breath,
he's drunk.'"
I pulled a good one on the Methodist preacher rocont
s. very natter-ormfaot sort of feliow, yeu know. I dialed his numbor ono
ming early, and the conversation vemt like this:
""Is dis Reverent Carroll? Reverent, does you ever marry foli:57
Aarry colored folks?'
"'Ohs yes, I very often merry Bezraos.
"'Well, Reverent, as and Lisa done decided IAA taillt to
in de nornin's and ve'll be 'round dere abo,A o'clock. Vans, sirs "bout
8 ofelodk, Boss.'
"'Now, John if you vent as to marry yells you better here exactly
at ideas for I'm oin to take my wife to a nootinr about that
"'All right, sir, Isossi, 10111 be dare Izactly at S o' clock.
Then Slie. Wiley Chanced from dialect to his ountomary speed:.
"1011, soy Carroll this is Wiley. When is that union aeetir
to bet
"Rere, here. 40, asinc tiicp-:ono•
about marryinc,
"I just have to have some fn every now and then.
self to think too seriously about the problc of lire.
I know'
2
GoinC
:1nG to a lorye
cault
qr-
,411,
now you've got as. No reorestion and no hobuissi °he ohildren and their
mother play Chinese Checker, and other Eames at night and ride bicycles in
the aftereeene But there' only one theeei enjoy doine, and that'e
shooting pool. Uha I do love it. sonstemes a. Vlii c,et me a table
put it in the attic', and when I can't stand the etreln ane
sneak
ex
off up there and shoot pool. Gee, Te love it. ii.)111(tAit bc am harm,
would itr
when i. Wiley I htzt;l;r reminAe4 eir that he has a 'eobby, ii
Dodee oar, he added "That's the truth. Ile crazy about cer wed Ao
love to drive it. While talkine in a erzeip of neat rocentle lee Of the
fellows said he believed I'd like to be burled in ny )od. Then another
one said that reminded him that he wonted te be beriod in h
told him he'd better swap it in for a -lee c before he vent, for if he
happened to find hinself -where he didn't enet
eet him out fiat enoaeh.
"1 think I'm a pretty cooperative sort of fellue. And the feet that
vas converted in u eres rterian eherce, ender the weacheee of a Aiethodist
Dveneelist, and became a eaetist nreadher peewee it. eon't you think so?
I had always cone to church in a sort of half-hoc.rtod my, and sorememeee,
deep down in ry souls I had felt that I =mead to preach.. ;:e) this experience
in the Presbyterian Church settled that, end I st
ctin ?calentt
401r cat for theenetist
seminary at Louisville Kentucky, Left Alice and the eelldron livelne in a
mill house at ocIthart. I t „red there t"in curs and cane out inL n.500.
eas sent to Lynchbere ireinia, to build a church.' r famile el-1th
me out there. Jet after three eve ha, I decieod the time we 't ripo fer
buildine. ;Weever, got ne a lob in the nell out there, tee! ex :lade ex-
penses. Then a call came for no to let to the ::ortnst% .eist r7hurch in
eeci: Hill, Louth -arolinn. There had been deseensioe in the chureh, end
13.
I found eight members on the roll. This only zalaryI had for +-hee ronths
was the loose eolleetione I roost's& emit .iunday., usually W or U. Then
the demons fixed my salary at t1500, and thoy pall no full ataftry for the
meetbe I hadn't gotten 414041 looney. Zbe 7-lanb.2.r ,row to 400 and the
salary berates& to 411,900. After stowing there nine years, imoved over
to West End, where I stayed for four years at a spOppy of 32u. next
eall Gams from ColaMbin, and these folks have alroadv put tp with no for
ten years."
"And you are responsible for this nice nart pe.rsona.Te oemmo.
"resew. built It at a cost of $4.500, and no debt on it. It's iot
nine roono."
"The dhuroh building and those temperar,
-z;ehool room aro twful,
but we've already paid $1 000 for some lots on the oornor, a3d 7,JOO has
been collected for a ISO 000 new plant. 4e 're
pretty soon."
"You don have any finanoial worries a
reetkon?"
w4e11, if I do, 1 .As so.in
a tenth. Lieen_tithing hteen years. he
tee= me and ray partner over there. 44 have b_ikets. he tus oars
of the household bills, and I care
and the big things like that. he
thrifty. There are lots or extra
o Oorin Inn,k on it
oheo,
naa, 1
taku out
-um is divided eTlly
for tasuraace pre.s.ltArza dootor' bills
beats me a little savinE. Lthe's
domande on a preacher cketboi
noing this afternoon to take two poundin,o to to rilIo. -tus neved in
1 -ore from Charlotte, tior‘h :';arolina, without tricndi, money, or a jobis
Then there's a poor wunan over here krinLw.',.th a oanoer, aad she's in aim
74kft
need of hely'. Lord,, Lord, folks do have e4e1- liar% time'
rrsoderat4-).r at' the ilaptiat Aseiation, 7.od Cross ,-Zte.i.r:=' for the
county, rentdent of the Tersvrsnce 1b, Wit 1:11•oLticlent of the tliviten
This is r..tr hcnor these tizt tr.xhave rn annttity
xance rolic:. end a retirerseart ins=
littic more than J00 a ye
4..htnit: ±t c•ort.r, /ie
taL., thi
I
o tin;: -C
1.14ytnt, a
-Fear for m.r ray..,,ormsc, and I
utithotrt
for -ally the door* His eyer-
tfakvag e149.0 II.te102.:. tree:sea in tdark alit* "rltL, Jr*, our
oldest ffrildis his father t
tt
k. •reB
0
thereto a mien* I've 72.se-.. 7a,-*
-ore* 74.; 11.1;70 sn.. :1 lit'a pretty well* di -Turco ezrt
said af, ho Ity-'4v2d* ehrne..nr a zeto 'ari Lt tttut,
11
covzle. fir_d vroiLld be 10Y7 finances, end she's bn oat ledro l'ar*
lant all rirl•te I :Irish she had wit,4
440-11/44 140 htr-V ttraitpar!lrac,7it„ trul she fLni.t.: too tea.
day* 81) *hr., rerks 4It the notial. e---zrter 10 r.,cnt
noons* (avec Inr end.iiZ
I've a.:,.;reol to _lye Ler error :11;oe that c)----sJtj
aceotirt 11.111 he
an:nohow ltnoir better than 'kW to t -t: t;71e71
ilev explained tt
on 13.! 1.)1C13
IllJr., ha,11
Mnd they wont ac-ros:.; 'ho hall .1717::0 t
that 1117, Jr*, v;raiunted
77 1.11,L;1 fILL"21 1%tvi,
th41 Jtrifel .407.•,. at a sai.nr..- cf 25
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Billy
she
rriMol.r/
a.
1
o7,13 f.• -he .ftvr-
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bank
told.
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the junior department in bundity School, and both the and Daisy teaoh in
that deportment*
The Inlays do not keep a servant, and 4rs. WA oy doesn't have tine
to do as mu0h dhurch work as She vould really like to do, In recent years
they do not try to have a garden. Froth vegetaOlos Gone- to the door every
dty, and are (dumper, perhaps, than can be 6rowns But Idley tries to
give her busily a baltnood diet, fresh v4k-otables and fruits, moats, milk
and butter. The parsonace is too near the chulm41 to keep a oow.
"Judging by the 4140 of mother and ne, you'd A006 me Let e'ac;ti to
eat, wouldn't you? Ilmeigh about 180 pounds.
liar sothor, who had set rather quietly throu6hout the visits jokingly
said she eouldn't qend to herself, moth lees the rest of the family, and
to she had said little. "You want to know qv ace, I ss? How old do
I look? The doctor told me to quit hirrialc birthdays, but when did have
one, I yes 72, and tipped the scales at 200 poundt."
"You soot about as temperamental as your son-in-law," T observed.
"Temperammmtal? I reckon that's a good substitute for the word,
overdo the temper part of it all right. :Amy ne„ I've got a temper.
Mikes ma sick for &week to get mad. Lver fit? Lau, child, ve pretty
nigh killed a few. but this is graveyard talk• oi don't know how i do
love folks and that I'll do for the very ones that nake no so nada, I just
lose mv temper every now and then."
Awaiting the, hour for his aHointuamt was past due, t, tkod r.
Wiley for a pleasant visit. "before you co 1 must show you our Indian
pottery later jug, You see it has two handles, which makes it very easy
to handle* Yessise, too, think it's beisrtifLa• Ahen 1 was pastor at
itook hill, I ran out twioe a month to the i_7.atauba Indian ieservation to
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preach to those folks. Tho city nurse and I did sone social serv'ce work
with those people.
"There well a bit;„ burly Indian livin„; 'way olt alAost be. and the
border of civilization. e had a very sick baj once, and ire iert oat
Clore and saved its life by takini, it to the pital. 2retty uoun he
had some serious trouble with his alloelder hoard abott that mid
brought him in to Rock Rill to the hospital* when wu were takini; him
home over the orces-eeuntry road, me passed a far4er on the rilit of the
road. The !Jars° and patient sat an the front 40UL and both :-Iss Lo::.owart
and I observed that the Indian Chief raised 11..o aril and turned iopiotcly
'round as we passed the Aan.
"My did you chan6e your position just ruur the nurse aaked
"Does your shoulder hart versa'
In his broken anGlioh he explained that the countryman in,,s very
provoked whom they pat the road aahi )4na and every now and tiain took
a notion to &hoot up senebod,. to be :11a tur.ets that
day, and when the Indian friend saw his pirtol, he turned to uhield 14iss
MoCowan from the lam arwi to receive it If. The nurse nas very
asch touched by this act of appreciation* he Ic his expression of
thanks to me."