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Hager: "Struck a knot now!Bubba Son the one kill that other man. He kill Ham.He sho did. You know a lot of murdering has done here.He jest was lying there drunk. They say half the people were coming by the house and he had two guns (Ben did).
Held 'em up! Wouldn't let 'em pass! Say he gwine kill 'em all! Say he Daddy kill his Mother. Say he murder her andhe going to get him! Held up he Ma funeral procession! Some run through the woods! I hear 'em on church grounds.They say, 'Ben drunk! Come to tend he Mother funeral drunk!
When we all come by, he jest laying there on the poarch. Some say, 'Call him! Let him come on and see the last o'
his mother!' I say, 'No, man! Let sleeping dog lie!'Mr. Francis (Ben Pa) after the burying done say he going home and let boy know who were boss! He say he boss'em if he were no bigger than ants! 'I show him today!'
All the mans say,'That's a man! 'A old pot! I tell you bout pot!' 'That what I call a man!'Ag him on. Ag him on. And Ben likened to kill his Daddy. A man can't shoot wid two guns in he hand. What he
going to pull the trigger wid? What going hinder him? Say they take the two guns and hide 'em. Ain't Ben's wife
relation to you?"Lillie: "Yes. Fuss (first) cousin. But it take financial to take little trips. I ain't gone to Hannah. I ain't got cash tothrow way. She get gainst the wall she'll find me.
"Aunt Riah say, 'Gal, you get all you joke from you Pa! Say Papa say, 'Miss Hess, Aunt Riah say look in the right
hand corner of her trunk and give me one of those dollar you find!'Miss Hess tell Aunt Riah and she say, "Hess, you look in dere and if you find a dollar in right hand corner it moredan I know!"
Then Papa 'ud say,"Miss Hess, fix me up a bag 'o them cold biscuits out you Ma safe!"Say she got a scrub (broom) now Papa make for her. She say I kin BORROW it but I must bring it back.""Mama had me scared tuh death. I was toting sand. Tote a bushel of sand in th' kitchen hog killing time so hit
wouldn't grease th' floor. Mama say, 'Gal, you mind how you strain with that sand. Pop a blood vessel, you'll bleed
tuh death!' Now if I jes (just) had one o' them luminum uh agony pots, I'd be fix." (Aluminum or agate)"They jest (just) like little babies. Last night I went home en (and) went tuh my biddy coop. Put 'em right by th'kitchen so I kin feed 'em in th' morning by th' lamp light. Gone tuh get th' rice. Light th' lamp. Get me storch.Wind'll blow lamp out! Pore (poor) lil thing. He were squinch down there tween th' two coop. Come tuh me. Wenton tuh bed, en (and) shut up. Jess (just) like lil babies!"
"Here I come
Black en dirty!
Doan kiss me quick I run lak (like) a turkey!"
