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"Smitty don't like for me to work away from home. He thinks a
woman should stay at home and do her work. That's why we would like to
have a nice farm of our own; we could be together then.

"One time Smitty did go up to the WPA office and ask them for a job
and they told him they would have to send somebody out to see us and then
they would mail us a card so he would know when to come back up to the of-
fice to see them again. You see, there is so much red tape, and the work
they woulda give him wouldn't pay nothin hardly. All the good money goes
to the big shots, so Smitty says.

"The WPA aint never done nothin for any of our kinpeople, and Smitty's
got a lot of em. He's got a daddy in Adel, Georgia, who is a-farmin and
he has a young family--his second at that. His first set of younguns all
have children, and there he is with another young family of his own at his
age. He's gonna be 73 next April, and his youngest baby is youngern ours,
and ours is six or seven. I reckon he must believe in large families, or
maybe he don't believe in em but got em anyhow. I am the baby of 16
children myself; don't know where they all are though.

"Our health is generally pretty good, I reckon; anyway I don't know
whenever we did have a doctor to any of us. I always doctor them myself
and manage to keep them pretty well. I didn't have no trainin at doctorin;
it just comes nachul to me.

"We all use to go to church right reglar like, but we done got out
of practice goin a long time ago. Smitty took up the Holiness Church one
time and it looked for a while like he was a-goin to be one but we moved
away from that neighborhood and so far away from the church that we are
clean out of practice now.

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