Georgia BIOS:  Mrs. Margaret Davis   
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   Project, Life Histories, 1936-39); Manuscript Division, Library of
   Congress.Copyright status not determined.
   
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   Breathless after climbing the long flight of steps leading to Mrs
   [Davison's?] shop [I entered??] a narrow hall, vacant except for a
   table stool and telephone, over, which a light was burning.
   
   Several chairs were grouped about a glowing heater at one end of the
   room. This was the sewing room, and here were two long tables used for
   cutting out clothing and for marking [DEL: alteration :DEL] garments
   for alteration. Finished garments almost filled the long rack [at?]
   one end of the room. Between two large windows a smaller table was
   flanked by sewing machines; one was [a?] modern electric machine,
   while the other was of the old fashioned pedal type.
   
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   0002
   
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   McCune
   
   Dec. 9-39
   
   Jan. 18-39
   
   Mrs. Margaret Davis (White)
   
   193[,?] Nacoahoe Ave.
   
   Athens, Georgia. [?]
   
   The tailor shop of Mrs. Davis is located in the second story of the
   Morris building. A long flight of stairs at one side of the building
   leads up to the shop. As I reached the head of the stairway where a
   light was burning, I was in a long narrow hall, vacant except for a
   table , which held the telephone, and a stool.
   
   I knocked at the first door and a very friendly voice, [DEL: said
   :DEL] , "come in. [DEL: Opening the door :DEL] I entered a large work
   room. Several men from the different dry cleaning establishments were
   talking with a large dark headed woman. She proved to be Mrs.
   [Davison?] [DEL: She asked me to have a seat, and that she would be
   with me in a few minutes. :DEL] "Just have a seat" she said to me.
   "I'll be with you in a few minutes. [DEL: I moved a chair nearer the
   stove at one side of the room to wait for Mrs. Davis' [DEL: to get
   through with her :DEL] customers to leave [.?] This was not my first
   visit to the shop. And as I looked around the large room, with the two
   long tables that were used for cutting and marking alternations,# I
   saw that they were piled [DEL: up :DEL] with [DEL: work :DEL] garments
   to be [DEL: fixed :DEL] [?]. A long rack at one end of the room was
   filled with [DEL: with :DEL] finished work [DEL: that was finished. A
   small table between the windows had a machine on each side of it.
   :DEL] Two sewing machines [flankes?] a small table that stood between
   two windows One was a large electric machine, [DEL: but :DEL] the
   other was [DEL: just :DEL] of an old machine with the old foot
   peddle[.?] type. :DEL]
   
   As the men put their work down and started out the door, another man
   came in, and said, "Miss Maggie, can you turn these shirt collars for
   me? # They are pretty bad, but I know [DEL: that :DEL] you can fix
   [DEL: them :DEL] 'em if any one can." # [DEL: Looking at :DEL] "After
   inspecting the collars, she [DEL: told him that she :DEL] replied, I
   [DEL: could :DEL] can fix them as good as new, but [DEL: that he would
   :DEL] you'll have to wait, for [DEL: them :DEL] 'em [DEL: until the
   next day :DEL] 'til tomorrow." He said that would be [DEL: alright
   :DEL] all right, and [DEL: how :DEL] added, [DEL: much would it be.
   :DEL] "What'll the job cost me?" She told him that she [DEL: got 10
   :DEL] charged ten and [DEL: 15 :DEL] fifteen cents for turning
   collars, # according to how [DEL: bad they were. The man said alright,
   he would :DEL] much work was necessary. "All right" said the man. I'll
   come for them [DEL: the next day. :DEL] tomorrow.
   
     NOTE: [? ? ?]
     
   00032The man [DEL: did :DEL] had not [DEL: get out :DEL] left before
   another was in the shop, saying, "Miss Magggie, can you fix a hole in
   my coat right quick? I got it caught in a screen door a few minutes
   ago and you know that I can feel this cold wind." Miss Maggie laughed
   and said, " [DEL: hand :DEL] Hand me the coat and [DEL: I :DEL] I'll
   [DEL: will :DEL] see what I can do." He pulled off his leather "lumber
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] jack", and [DEL: it wasn't many :DEL] in a very few
   minutes [DEL: before :DEL] he was on his way , his coat [DEL: fixed
   :DEL] mended, and it had only cost him fifteen cents. [DEL: Mrs. [?]is
   a large, dark headed woman [?] was dressed in a [?] wore a neat print
   dress. :DEL] [DEL: She :DEL] Mrs. [Davison?] called, " [DEL: Edd :DEL]
   Ed ", and a [DEL: negro :DEL] Negro man came to the door, [DEL: she
   told him to :DEL] "fix up the fire she told him, [DEL: [for?] :DEL] "
   [DEL: the :DEL] this [DEL: room :DEL] room's [DEL: was :DEL] getting
   cold and [DEL: for him not to :DEL] don't go off, for [DEL: they had
   :DEL] there's plenty of work to be [DEL: [do?] :DEL] done. She turned
   to me with a friendly smile and said [,?] "did you think I would never
   get through [?] [DEL: it is :DEL] it's like this every day.
   
   "But [DEL: that is :DEL] that's where I get most of my business [DEL:
   now :DEL] For I don't get as much from the stores now. [DEL: But :DEL]
   Since Christmas [DEL: they are :DEL] they're not doing so much
   business, [DEL: this time of the year. :DEL] Yet I have all [DEL: that
   :DEL] I can do, and I don't take but very few new things to make since
   I have been running the shop by myself, #/ for I don't have the time
   for that.
   
   "[DEL: [But?] :DEL] all this is not interesting to you I know ," she
   remarked. [DEL: But :DEL] I explained that was what I wanted, [DEL: a
   story about :DEL] the story of her life and her work. She laughed and
   said, "I don't think my story would be interesting to [DEL: any :DEL]
   anybody else, [DEL: one, :DEL] for I guess [DEL: it is :DEL] it's just
   about like most any ones. I have had my ups and downs, pleasures and
   ,# yes,# troubles too . # we all have [DEL: them :DEL] 'em.
   
   There was another knock at the door, and in answer to her " [DEL: come
   :DEL] Come in" [DEL: the door opened and :DEL] a [DEL: negro :DEL]
   Negro man [DEL: came in, :DEL] entered. he was well- dressed [DEL:
   [nice?] :DEL] and [DEL: by :DEL] his speech and manner [DEL: [take? he
   :DEL] made [DEL: you :DEL] me think of a [DEL: colored :DEL] Negro
   preacher, [DEL: He said :DEL] he had brought in a pair of pants that
   had a hole in them, and asked if could she fix them inside of two
   hours ?" cause Mistiss, I has just [DEL: get'er :DEL] gotta have 'em.
   # Mrs Davis told him that she would do [DEL: the :DEL] her best [DEL:
   that she could. :DEL] to finish the task on time.
   
   As he went out, # the man from the Lee [DEL: Morris's :DEL] Morris
   Clothing Store 00043came in with a pair of new trousers to be adjusted
   to measurements of 38" waist 34" inseam length, and the cuff were to
   be put in. [DEL: pants, for the cuffs to be [? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?] in the
   waist and 34" long in length [?] and that :DEL] the customer would be
   back for them in two hours.
   
   As he closed the door behind him, Mrs. Davis looked at me and [DEL:
   [?] :DEL] laughed again, [DEL: and said :DEL] " [DEL: I will :DEL]
   I'll make a bargain with you," she said,. "see all this work that I
   have to do [.?] [DEL: well :DEL] Well, if you will fix this pair of
   pants for me, I will give you a story of my life and my business [.?]
   how about it ? are you a good sport? "
   
   I [DEL: got up :DEL] pulled off my hat and coat and told her to hand
   me [DEL: the :DEL] those pants. She [DEL: looked at me andsaid "but
   :DEL] grinned and gave me a quizzical look. [DEL: you will :DEL]
   you'll have to french-cuff them," she challenged, " for I know they
   are not long enough to get a cuff without it. " [DEL: [But?] :DEL] I
   [DEL: said :DEL] insisted that I could do that [DEL: also :DEL] too.
   [DEL: And :DEL] as I took the pants to the table to measure and mark
   them, she said "I # believe you know what you are doing. " It, was my
   [DEL: time :DEL] turn to laugh, and I [DEL: said :DEL] informed her
   that I had [DEL: fix :DEL] fixed [DEL: ed a good may :DEL] many a
   [DEL: pairs :DEL] pair of pants, [DEL: and :DEL] that she need not
   worry about them, and that I was willing to work for my story. [DEL:
   Mrs. Davis said, :DEL] "well I like a good sport," she said " but I
   [DEL: did not [?] :DEL] didn't think that [DEL: you would :DEL] you'd
   do it. [DEL: But I will :DEL] I'll be a good sport [DEL: [?] :DEL]
   too[,?] and if you don't mind me talking and working [DEL: to :DEL]
   too at the same time [DEL: I will :DEL] I'll [DEL: give you the best
   story that I can. :DEL] tell you all I can remember. But don't think
   that I won't have to stop, # for I will [DEL: [For?] :DEL] you see how
   it is.
   
   It did not take me long to finish [DEL: my work :DEL] the chore, and I
   handed them to her to see if they [DEL: were alright. :DEL] would pass
   inspection. She said, "well , I was fooled one time . [DEL: and :DEL]
   you did a very good job ." [DEL: she called," Edd" :DEL] "Ed" she
   called [DEL: and [? ?] waited :DEL] Waiting for him to come she said,
   "do you like coffee? " [DEL: I said that I liked it :DEL] " very
   much," [DEL: and she said, :DEL] I replied, "now I knew that we will
   get along," was her answer. [DEL: As Edd came in the door she told him
   to take the pants to press, but fix our coffe pot on first :DEL] Ed
   appeared, "Take these pants and press 'em," she ordered. "but first
   fix some coffee for us, for I think a good cup of coffee will help us
   out. " [DEL: Edd :DEL] Ed went out and came back with a 00054[DEL: [?
   ? ? ? ?] :DEL] coffee pot, [DEL: full of water :DEL] he [DEL: fixed
   :DEL] stirred up the fire again and [DEL: [? ?] :DEL] placed the
   coffee pot on the heater. Mrs. [DEL: davis :DEL] [Davison?] said, he
   [DEL: will not :DEL] won't forget our coffee, I just don't know what I
   [DEL: would :DEL] do without him . he has been with me so long , and
   knows just how I want every thing done [.?] and he is one honest negro
   , Never bothers a thing.
   
   "But get your book and [DEL: pencils :DEL] pencil[.?] you don't have
   to [DEL: [mark?] :DEL] sew any more, and if I talk [DEL: to :DEL] too
   much, just stop me. # For I [DEL: realy :DEL] really like to talk and
   I get lonesome for someone to talk too. The wind was rattling the
   [DEL: window :DEL] windows [,'?] and [DEL: the water in the :DEL]
   coffee pot was begining to [DEL: [?] :DEL] percolate as she started
   her story.
   
   "I was born in a little two-room log house[,?] on My Grandfather
   Sumers place, out near where Princeton is now. While I was still just
   a baby, Daddy moved [DEL: to :DEL] near the old paper mill. The place
   / is now called the [Cord?] Mill. [DEL: But :DEL] / the old paper mill
   building is still standing, but in [DEL: [to ? ?] :DEL] too a
   condition to be used for anything.
   
   "My [DEL: fater :DEL] father and Jerome Wallace were the men that
   [DEL: run :DEL] operated the Paper machine[,?] or "[In-jines??]," as
   they called them then. Of course they had helpers, but [DEL: one of
   them :DEL] either father or Mr. Wallace had to be on duty all the
   time. [DEL: [And?] :DEL] if one of them was [DEL: off :DEL] sick , or
   off for any other reason, [DEL: [? ?] :DEL] one had to stay [?] until
   the other [DEL: [?] :DEL] was back on duty. [DEL: [? ? ?] :DEL] There
   was [DEL: [the?] :DEL] only one woman [DEL: that they [used?] :DEL]
   employed in that part of the mill. [DEL: And :DEL] she counted the
   paper [.?] it was made in large square sheets ready for the printers ,
   and they said she was an expert. It was a long time before they ever
   got a machine that was as accurate and fast
   
     NOTE: at that task as she was.
     
   "Old man Bishop [DEL: run :DEL] ran the finishing machine. I have
   watched them work many a time when I was a child, for it was so
   interesting to see the machines run. [DEL: And :DEL] out from the
   Paper Mill, was the rag room, where the rags were [DEL: sortened :DEL]
   sorted, and each color was put in a [DEL: seperate :DEL] separate bin
   [DEL: to [its self?] :DEL] . They bought old clothes and rags to make
   paper. All buttons were cut off [.?] # [DEL: and :DEL] [DEL: they
   :DEL] They [DEL: were :DEL] had to be very careful about [DEL: the
   buttons :DEL] that, for [DEL: they :DEL] a [DEL: would :DEL] button
   left on could ruin [DEL: [?] :DEL] a [DEL: mchines :DEL] machine [DEL:
   if they [? ? ?] :DEL] 00065"I was sent to school when I was about six,
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] but it was not like the schools are now. School then
   was in the Old Hall, and was all in one room. Miss Sally Wood was our
   teacher, and there was only teacher for [DEL: [? ? ?] :DEL] the whole
   school [.?] [DEL: and :DEL] she taught all the children. [DEL: She had
   :DEL] There were about one hundred children[,?] all sizes and ages, #
   from six years up,# and some of them # were almost grown. Our books
   were [DEL: [?] :DEL] spelling, out of the Old Blue Back Speller , #
   arithmetic , and geography. We sure had to study [.?] every one stood
   up in [DEL: row :DEL] rows [DEL: [? ? ?] :DEL] for spelling bees, and
   every time you missed a word, you had to go the bottom of the row. Oh
   yes, we [DEL: sudied :DEL] studied, but at that we [DEL: [?] :DEL] had
   some good [DEL: [?] :DEL] times in that old schoolhouse [.?] [DEL: [?]
   :DEL] in later years it was made into a dwelling house[,?] and is, I
   believe , still standing. [DEL: at the time. :DEL]
   
   "It was a great thing to us kids, to work in the rag room at the paper
   mill after we were out of school. They were glad to have us too. Our
   job was to sort the rags, # and we enjoyed the work. [DEL: [and?]
   :DEL] they paid us fifty cents a month. [DEL: [?] :DEL] that was a lot
   of money to us then . # of course it wouldn't mean much to the kids
   these days. People from all around sold their old clothes and rags at
   the paper mill. And many time we found nickles and dimes in the bags
   of rags. # We were allowed to keep this money,# and we bought candy
   with it and had a big time.
   
   "[DEL: And :DEL] one day[,?] I sure remember that time , for I think
   that pleasures and disappointments in our childhood days are better
   remembered than any thing else. We found a large bag of new clothes,
   and they were nice ones, [DEL: dress :DEL] dresses for women and
   children,# underwear,# stockings,# and some men's shirts. Well , we
   just dressed ourselves up, and put these things aside, for we wanted
   to keep [DEL: them :DEL] 'em. But the very next morning, a woman from
   town was out there hunting her clothes. She said Her maid had sold
   them and kept the money[.?] And as the old saying goes, 'our feathers
   fell,' for we had to give up all [DEL: [? ?] :DEL] these nice clothes.
   00076" About this time they put in [DEL: [?] :DEL] [DEL: machine :DEL]
   machines to make paper bags. The machines would cut a hundred bags at
   a time, and that [DEL: [?] :DEL] provided some thing else [DEL: [? ?]
   :DEL] for us kids [DEL: could :DEL] to do.# We tied [DEL: [up?] :DEL]
   the bags in bundles, two hundred bags to a bundle; that was fun, for
   we folded half one way and the other half the other way. Those bag
   machines were a great curiosity to the people then, and they would
   come for miles to watch them run.
   
   " They also used jute to make paper. That was bought in large bales,
   and it [DEL: [was?] :DEL] made another job for us . We would tear up
   the jute into small [DEL: piecies :DEL] pieces to have it ready for
   the machines. One day we found a lot of paper money in a bale of jute.
   But two of the women that worked there took that away from us and said
   that they would have to send it back. But folks said that they kept it
   and bought them a home with it . # I don't know about that, but I do
   know that we [DEL: did not :DEL] didn't get any of [DEL: the :DEL]
   that money.
   
   "And did you knew that they [DEL: use :DEL] used to make paper out of
   wood, # even back in those days. Well , they did [.?]# I don't
   remember just what kind of wood they used for it, but they would cut
   young saplings,# skin the bark off,# and grind them into pulp ready
   for the paper machine. The paper made from the wood was a heavy brown
   paper such as they use for wrapping and was called manila paper.
   
   " People was paid once a month then for their work, and it was the
   custom to buy a months supply of provisions on pay day. And they all
   traded at the company store. The men all liked their tobacco, and this
   was one supply that was not forgotten when they were buying groceries.
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] it was something they felt like they could not do
   without.
   
   "And kids would slip tobacco out and chew it, the boys especially. One
   day some of the kids swiped some of their dads tobacco and told me
   that I had to hide it, and I had better put it where it would not be
   found. I decided that the old well would be the best place if I could
   climb up and put it on the sills in # the top of the well [shetters.?]
   I managed to climb up and [DEL: [?] :DEL] around it so nice along the
   sills, and was sure that no one would see it. But it 00087started
   raining that night, and it rained for a solid week.
   
   "After the rain was over the kids told me to get their tobacco. I went
   to the old well[,?] and found it was ruined . the top of the
   [shettes?] had leaked, and the rain had [DEL: [?] :DEL] soaked that
   tobacco until it swelled up [DEL: [?] :DEL] twice as thick as it [DEL:
   shoud :DEL] should be. And I almost got a [DEL: whipping :DEL] beating
   from these kids, for of course they chewed it, and was sick. No I did
   not try any, for I knew better . [DEL: [?] :DEL] Mamma would sure have
   tanned my hide.
   
   " I had some older sisters and our house was just a gathering place
   for the young folks . there was a crowd of them in and out all the
   time, and I could get the biggest thrill out of watching and [DEL:
   listing :DEL] listening to them talk. One night , two girls come to
   our house to set a dumb supper. I was # just about seven then,# and I
   cried because they put me to bed,# for they had these [DEL: supper
   :DEL] suppers at midnight,# just on the stroke of twelve.
   
   "They started their supper and one of my sisters and another girl put
   on pants and was going to scare [DEL: them :DEL] 'em. I could hear
   them talking for I wasn't asleep if I was in bed. I slipped up and
   told one of my Uncles what they [DEL: [were?] :DEL] was going to do.
   It was a disgrace in them days for a girl to dress up like a boy,# so
   he said that he would fix them. And when they started around the
   kitchen to [DEL: scares :DEL] scare the girls that was cooking,# he
   got after [DEL: them :DEL] 'em, and did they scream ? [DEL: [?] :DEL]
   any way it broke up the supper and I was satisfied.
   
   "Did you ever hear about them old time dumb suppers ? [,?] they [DEL:
   were :DEL] was [DEL: poplar :DEL] popular then. That was the way the
   girls found out who was going to be their future husbands. I know it
   seems funny now to look back on [DEL: [times?] :DEL] things we [DEL:
   as they were :DEL] did then. But after all, I think [DEL: people realy
   enjoyed life more :DEL] we had more fun than the [DEL: than they [?]
   :DEL] young folks has now.
   
   "Well , [DEL: I will :DEL] I'll try to tell you how they cooked these
   suppers. Two girls did the cooking,# set the table,# and each one used
   their right hand . everything was done backwards,# even to making the
   bread . they did every 00098thing together,# and each one just used
   one hand. They could not speak or laugh from the time they started
   until it was [DEL: over :DEL] ended, for if they did the spell was
   broken and nothing would happen.
   
   "Everything must be ready just at twelve, the table set for two .
   [DEL: and also :DEL] a Bible and a bottle was placed on the table.
   Then the wind was supposed to blow [DEL: and :DEL] the doors come open
   , [DEL: [?] :DEL] and the men [DEL: could :DEL] were expected to come
   in and eat. They did not speak either, just [DEL: [?] :DEL] ate and
   walked out. If [DEL: they :DEL] a man picked up the Bible,# then [DEL:
   they :DEL] he would make a good husband, but, beware of the man that
   moved the bottle[,?] for you would sure get a [DEL: [? ?] :DEL]
   husband who would turn out bad and be a drunkard for sure. And if no
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] man [DEL: come :DEL] came,# and your coffin come in#
   then you was [DEL: domed :DEL] doomed to die an old maid.
   
   " These suppers were lots of fun,# for most every time the girls would
   get scared and wake up every [DEL: one :DEL] body in the house. Oh
   yes, they had to be the only two people awake in the house. " At this
   time [DEL: Edd :DEL] Ed came in with cups , [DEL: for us to [?] :DEL]
   but before we poured our coffee[.?] The [DEL: negro :DEL] Negro [DEL:
   [?] :DEL] customs came back for his trousers. [DEL: [? ?] :DEL] when
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] Mrs [Davison] only charged him fifteen cents for the
   work, [DEL: [? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?] :DEL] his [? ? ?] expressed in his best
   [pulpit?? memories.] ∥ [DEL: [? ? ? ?] :DEL] We now [enjoyed?] the
   excellent coffee [DEL: [? ? ? ? ? ? ?] :DEL] Mrs. [DEL: [?] :DEL]
   [Davison?] was tired . [DEL: for :DEL] she had [DEL: realy :DEL]
   rapidly reduced that pile of work as she talked. When I mentioned it,
   she said, "I am [DEL: use :DEL] used to it,# and it does not worry me.
   My customers are all so nice, and if I am occasionally a little late
   [DEL: some times :DEL] in getting out their work[,?] they never say
   anything. But I guess I had better get back to work. [DEL: [?] :DEL]
   you can rest if you are [DEL: tried :DEL] tired." [DEL: I told her
   :DEL] [DEL: that :DEL] [DEL: I was still trying to be a good sport,
   [?] was ready to write[,?] when she was ready to talk. :DEL] I
   reminded her that my job was to write when she talked.
   
   "Well I am going to tell you about how we use to spend Christmas.
   Christmas [DEL: that :DEL] lasted a week,# from [DEL: christmas eve
   :DEL] Christmas Eve, [DEL: 'till :DEL] 'til New [DEL: Yeras :DEL]
   Years. Nobody worked, just [DEL: eat :DEL] ate danced , and visited
   all during that week. [DEL: But this one that I will tell you about is
   one that we have laughed over :DEL] [DEL: may :DEL] many's the [DEL:
   times. :DEL] time I've laughed over the Christmas I'm going to tell
   you about now.0010three children arrived. Like so many other people in
   those days, they did not have enough money for the whole family to
   ride on the train for [DEL: so :DEL] such a long [DEL: a :DEL] trip,
   so the children started off several days ahead of their parents. They
   rode with friends [DEL: a :DEL] part of the way and then set out to
   walk the balance of the way. Those two girls and the boy got here on
   Christmas Eve, and if they wasn't a sight! One of [DEL: them :DEL] the
   girls weighed over two hundred pounds and she had walked the soles off
   of her shoes. 00119"Mamma was looking for her half-sister and family
   from Alabama to spend Christmas with us. None of us had ever seen
   them, and we was sure looking forward to their coming. We was having a
   big supper and dance for them on Christmas [DEL: eve :DEL] Eve night
   .# [DEL: also an dance :DEL] We kids were just on tiptoes, so excited
   we just couldn't hardly wait . [DEL: for :DEL] And, of course , we
   were looking for Santa Clause too and our tree was all ready. Mamma
   had killed turkeys and chickens,# and had been cooking cakes and pies
   for two weeks.
   
   [*?]" [DEL: But :DEL] at last they came. Now , child, [I am going to
   tell you this just as I remember it.?] [DEL: And I don't know if you
   will care to use it or not, [but?] :DEL] we have had many laughs over
   this christmas, [DEL: so many years ago. :DEL] and My Aunt and Uncle
   got here several days before the children did. [DEL: [?] :DEL] like so
   many other people in those days, they did not have money enough for
   all of them to come on the train , [DEL: [?] :DEL] So they started the
   children [DEL: [?] :DEL] off days before they left [DEL: [?] :DEL]
   themselves. [DEL: Ridding :DEL] Riding part of the way with friends,
   and walking the rest of the way. But the two girls and boy got here on
   christmas eve . [DEL: [?] :DEL] if they wasn't a sight !# one of the
   girls weighed over two hundred pounds, and had walked the soles off
   her shoes.
   
   "All of our folks and many of our friends were there. [DEL: And :DEL]
   Among one of them was mamma's [DEL: neices :DEL] nieces and her
   husband, a man named, Stencile. Also one of My Uncles and his
   daughter, they played fiddles and were to furnish the music for the
   dance. [DEL: for they all played fiddles. :DEL] Everything was cleared
   out of two [DEL: room :DEL] rooms [DEL: [? ?] :DEL] , And about three
   o'clock the young people started [DEL: [?] :DEL] dancing. We kids were
   happy . [DEL: for :DEL] we could watch them as long as wanted to ,
   'cause we didn't have to go to bed early on christmas Eve.
   
   "The older women were busy cooking and getting the supper ready .
   every body was having a good time .# the man calling for the dance ,
   would holler, " swing your pardners ." oh, it was a grand time .#
   [DEL: and yet happy as we [?] :DEL] we kids were so interested in the
   fat girl from Alabama ,# that we stayed pretty close around her. She
   did not seem to want to dance[,?] and we 001210couldn't understand
   that , And when we saw one of the boys start toward her[,?] we just
   had to hear what he said. He asked her if she would dance that set
   with him. We held our breath for her answer, [DEL: and this is what
   she said, :DEL] "I had just as [DEL: [leif?] :DEL] [lief?], dance with
   you as any body else," she said " but I has walked all the way from
   Alabany to see Aunt Sis, and am [DEL: to :DEL] too tired and [DEL:
   galled :DEL] [galleded?] from walking to feel like [DEL: dance :DEL]
   dancing with anybody."
   
   There was a knock at the door[,?] Mrs. [DEL: [?] :DEL] [Daivson?]
   said, "come in", A man from the dry cleaners brought in [DEL: [?]
   :DEL] more work, and with him was a [DEL: man from the :DEL] laundry
   [man?], who wanted to know if she had been able to [DEL: fix :DEL]
   mend the coveralls that he brought her the day before. She laughed and
   said," [DEL: you will :DEL] you'll be surprised [DEL: [??] :DEL] at
   how much wear that man can get [DEL: [??] :DEL] out of [DEL: them
   :DEL] 'em yet. " [DEL: As :DEL] the [DEL: [?] :DEL] customes looked at
   the coveralls [DEL: he :DEL] and said, "Miss [DEL: Maggie :DEL]
   Mollie, how do you do it? It makes no difference how bad anything
   is[,?] when we bring it to you, [DEL: it is :DEL] it's always fixed
   when we get it back." He [DEL: [???] :DEL] requested his bill for the
   day before [DEL: [?] :DEL] , paid it all , and [DEL: went [?] :DEL]
   departed.
   
   "Mrs. [DEL: [?] :DEL] [Davison?] said, " where was I ? wasn't we just
   fixing to eat ? well , anyway, they started eating supper about five
   o'clock, and we had [DEL: [?] :DEL] to set [DEL: the :DEL] that table
   eight times, there was so many to eat .# and of course, we children
   did not eat until all the grown people had [DEL: [?] :DEL] finished.
   Well , this man Stencile, [DEL: sit :DEL] sat down at the first table,
   and that man stayed there, eating with every table full of people. I
   never saw one person eat so much in all my life. There was plenty to
   eat,# but we kids were watching the turkey . there was one [DEL: peice
   :DEL] piece left on the dish [DEL: [?] :DEL] on the last table full
   was about to [DEL: [finisher?] :DEL] finish eating, and that man
   Stencile reached over and got it. We was so mad, but we knew better
   than to say anything. [DEL: [?] :DEL] much as we had to eat, we
   couldn't enjoy it for [DEL: think :DEL] thinking about [DEL: of :DEL]
   that last [DEL: peice :DEL] piece of turkey.
   
   "The dance lasted all night, but we kids [DEL: [?] :DEL] got so sleepy
   we [DEL: give :DEL] gave it up and [DEL: [?] :DEL] went bed of our own
   accord. [DEL: But :DEL] we were up early the next morning,# ready for
   breakfast, # [DEL: and we :DEL] but first we had to see what Santa
   Clause had left for us. Of course we did not have things then like
   children do / now, but we had many nice things, and when it was time
   001311for dinner, Mamma saved out some of the turkey for us, [,?] and
   I guess it was a good thing that she did for that man Stencile was
   still there, and still eating just like he did the day before.
   
   "I had just about finished school [DEL: [?] :DEL] when the [DEL: old
   :DEL] Paper Mill closed down[?], and we moved to Athens, near the old
   Check Mill[,?] on Broad St. We went to work there and, [DEL: in the
   [?], and I still remember how that old mill looked. :DEL] # I don't
   think that I will ever forget [DEL: [?] :DEL] how that old mill
   looked.
   
   "It had large posts all through the mill, and one day my sister was
   leaning against one resting. One of the women thinking she would have
   some fun, yelled out to her to move quick. It scared my sister[,?]
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] so that she jumped to [?] and tore out a hand full of
   her hair that caught on a nail. [DEL: catching her hair on a nail and
   pulled out a handfull of hair. :DEL] Every one laughed,# but it made
   me [DEL: so :DEL] mad[,?] and I hit her so hard [DEL: [?] :DEL] she
   fell in the floor. We were due some teasing because We were new people
   in the settlement, [DEL: and due a lot of teasing :DEL] , but after
   that they did not [DEL: [?] :DEL] pester us any more. And we were soon
   satisfied there[,?] and having the same good old times that we [DEL:
   did :DEL] had enjoyed in our old home community.
   
   "Just when I was thinking that I was about grown, [DEL: I was visiting
   my sister, and it was there that :DEL] I met my present husband[.?] at
   my sister's house. He came to see my brother-in-law and had the [DEL:
   pretties :DEL] prettiest horse and buggy. He carried me to ride, but
   we just went # down the [DEL: road :DEL] roAd, not far enough to get
   out of [DEL: site :DEL] sight of the house. But even at that, Mamma
   heard about it. She didn't believe much in whipping,# but she sure
   could find other ways of punishing, and just for that one little ride,
   I had to stay at home for three long months. [DEL: And :DEL] I was not
   even allowed to go to church and Sunday school.
   
   "I had a girl friend that I [DEL: use :DEL] used # to spend the night
   with real often, and she would visit me [DEL: also. One night [?]
   :DEL] too. Once I was spending the night at her house[,?] while her
   mother and father were away visiting, and the was no one at home
   except the children. [DEL: [??] :DEL] Some of her sisters were much
   older than we, [DEL: were :DEL] , so nobody was afraid to stay. But we
   decided that after the others had [DEL: [?] :DEL] all gone to [DEL:
   [bed?] :DEL] sleep, that we would slip [DEL: [up?] :DEL] out of bed
   and cook a dumb supper, for we had wanted to do this [DEL: for :DEL] a
   / long time, but they had always said that we were [DEL: to :DEL] too
   little. 001412"After they were all in bed we got up . yes we [DEL:
   were :DEL] was scared, but we was determined to show [DEL: them :DEL]
   'em that we could do it as well as they could. And we did get the
   supper ready, didn't even forget the Bible and Bottle. Two boys that
   knew us had been fishing and was on their way home, [DEL: saw :DEL]
   seeing the light in the kitchen so late they thought that some [DEL:
   one :DEL] body might be sick, and came by to see if there was anything
   that they could do. But when they saw us in the kitchen they knew what
   we was doing, and just pushed opened the door,# walked in and picked
   up the bottle and went out. We were scared so bad[,?] we couldn't move
   for a few minutes,# but when we did get to yelling[,?] we had everyone
   in the house up. But , strange as it may seem, one of those boys is
   now my husband, and my girl friend married the other [DEL: [?] :DEL] .
   
   "And now I am going to stop a little while for lunch and drink another
   cup of [DEL: Edds :DEL] Ed's coffee. Do you go home for lunch, or do
   you eat in town? I said that [DEL: I did not get home as it was to far
   out, and :DEL] I [DEL: usualy :DEL] usually [DEL: [?] :DEL] lunched in
   town. "Well then," she said " we will just order us somthing sent down
   here, for I do not leave the shop, [DEL: for there's :DEL] there's
   [DEL: is :DEL] always some one coming in. We ordered sandwiches and
   were [DEL: argueing :DEL] arguing as to who was [DEL: [going?] :DEL]
   to pay for them, when a [DEL: cutomer :DEL] customer came in and
   suggested that he [DEL: flip :DEL] toss a coin and settle [DEL: [????]
   :DEL] the question. I lost . my last fifty cents went to pay for the
   sandwiches. [∥?] [DEL: [But?] :DEL] as we ate our lunch Mrs Davis
   said" [DEL: I am :DEL] I'm glad that you came to see me to day, but
   [DEL: Iam :DEL] I'm sorry that [DEL: I :DEL] I've made you work[,?] so
   hard. [DEL: but I have enjoyed talking with you, and :DEL] it seems
   like I have got along so well with my work better than usual because I
   had good helpful company. [DEL: But :DEL] I guess I had better get
   back at it now,# but we can still talk.
   
   " I have been married twice [DEL: [?] :DEL] I met my first husband on
   a picnic . yes we had real picnics then . [DEL: and :DEL] every one
   went [DEL: and we went :DEL] in [DEL: the :DEL] those old
   tallahe['?]s. They just put straw in the bottom to sit on, and all
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] piled in together. After dinner[,?] there would be a
   ball game,# and my husband was one of the [DEL: [?] :DEL] players.
   [DEL: It was not long after this, that :DEL] Once we went with a crowd
   of young people the Old Beaver Dam Church, to see a foot washing .
   after that was over we rode to the Jim Smith place , where One of the
   guards showed us [DEL: all over :DEL] around.001513[DEL: the :DEL] We
   were especially interested in the prison labor camp. There was so many
   prisoners, some of them were crippled up in different ways, some with
   one [DEL: arms :DEL] arm and some [DEL: had only :DEL] with one leg,
   but they all had to work. It was on the way home from there that [DEL:
   [?????] :DEL] Sam proposed [DEL: him :DEL] . And in about three months
   we were married.
   
   " We went to housekeeping in the house with Mr. and Mrs. [DEL:
   Elliott[?] :DEL] Endicott. We [DEL: were :DEL] was both young but got
   along fine, and [DEL: was :DEL] were very happy. ∥ It was during
   this time that my Daddy got burned so bad. He was working at the old
   waterworks plant then. And some of the pipes had been [DEL: condemed
   :DEL] condemned, but they had not changed them. And one day just as
   Daddy passed by,# one the large pipes with about two hundred pounds of
   steam in it bursted,# and the steam went all over Daddy's left side
   [DEL: even his :DEL] and head, [DEL: and :DEL] just [DEL: missed :DEL]
   missing his [DEL: eye :DEL] eyes, he was just a solid blister. There
   was no ambulances then,# and they carried him home # in a cab. They
   had two doctors with him and they [DEL: tiold :DEL] told us that he
   could not live until dinnertime. All [DEL: the :DEL] our family was
   called home .# [DEL: [?] :DEL] two of [DEL: the :DEL] our neighbors
   put him in bed, [DEL: pulled :DEL] took off his clothes and shut all
   the windows, because they said the air would make the fire go inside.
   
   "They [DEL: [?] :DEL] started [DEL: to :DEL] giving him whiskey , and
   afterwards they [DEL: [?] :DEL] told my Daddy [DEL: later :DEL] that
   he drank over a half of a gallon. # I don't know about that, but I do
   know that they gave him some, for [DEL: [?] :DEL] my husband went to
   the [DEL: despeneary :DEL] despensary and got it for daddy. The
   doctors came back at noon[,?] expecting to find him dead [DEL: they
   :DEL] but after they had stayed [DEL: [?] :DEL] a long time , they
   [DEL: and :DEL] told us [DEL: [?] :DEL] he had a chance to get well .
   ∥ They said it was because the whiskey had run the fire [DEL: on
   :DEL] to the outside. [DEL: [?] :DEL] it took him a long time to get
   up and where he could go back to work. [DEL: But :DEL] in a few years
   he started to having strokes of paralysis in his left side ,# and the
   fourth [DEL: [?] :DEL] stroke killed him.
   
   "My husband died in 1907. After he passed away I went back to live
   with Mamma and [DEL: Dady :DEL] Daddy. I was blue and discouraged, and
   decided that if I could work it would help me, and I [DEL: went to
   :DEL] got work at the Climax Hosiery Mill. I worked therefor a while
   and then I went to work for Mr. [DEL: [?] :DEL] Hart at his overall
   plant. [DEL: "At first Mr. Head had an overall plant. :DEL] I had
   never done any of 001614that kind of work,# but I started-in and when
   I had learned it from the bottom up , [DEL: [?] :DEL] I made [DEL:
   eight dollars :DEL] $8 a week. [DEL: [?] :DEL] we made some Khaki work
   pants [DEL: [?] :DEL] and did so good on [DEL: them :DEL] 'em [,?]
   that Mr. [DEL: [?] :DEL] Hart decided he would open up a tailor shop.
   He got the place fixed up and put in all the machines. [DEL: [?] :DEL]
   he sent to New York for two Bohemians, to learn us how to be tailors.
   
   He paid [DEL: thw Bohemians fifty dollars :DEL] them [?] $50 a week
   each. I guess they earned it too,# for we was hard to learn. [DEL:
   when :DEL] When the war came on # [DEL: and :DEL] we got orders for
   officers' uniforms , [DEL: Then to get a raise [in our?] pay :DEL] and
   our pay was raised to [DEL: eighteen dollars :DEL] $18 a week. [DEL:
   The :DEL] orders kept coming,# and he had to put on ten more girls to
   help, [DEL: they :DEL] [DEL: [sew?] :DEL] [sew?] on buttons, fell
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] seams and [DEL: whipped :DEL] whip in waistbands. And
   then the older [DEL: girls :DEL] help get another raise to [DEL:
   twenty five dollars :DEL] $25 a week. [DEL: [?] :DEL] $25 a week.
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] we [DEL: were :DEL] was just rusehed to death with
   orders all the time while the war lasted.
   
   "[DEL: But after the war was over, :DEL] The war ended and things
   began to drop . [DEL: he :DEL] Mr Hart couldn't collectand his
   business began going down. [DEL: And then we were out :DEL] He had to
   cut us to [DEL: fifteen dollars' :DEL] $15 a week,# and the extra help
   was laid off. It was this time that I saw my first fight between men.
   And I don't think that I ever want to see another one.
   
   "The Bohemians got to fussing about their work[,?] and then [DEL: [?]
   :DEL] started fighting and throwing things at each other . the women
   were all scared, and I started to go for Mr. [DEL: [??] :DEL] Hart.
   just as I got to the door, one of them threw the stand that the heavy
   press iron [DEL: sit :DEL] sits on, [DEL: [?] :DEL] it just missed my
   head. I screamed,# and that brought Mr. [DEL: [?] :DEL] Hart to see
   what was the trouble.
   
   "[DEL: When :DEL] he got [DEL: them :DEL] 'em straightened out [DEL:
   [?] :DEL] and tried to talk to [DEL: them :DEL] 'em. He told [DEL:
   them :DEL] 'em that the Southern men did not fight in front of ladies.
   But they told Mr. Head[,?] that it didn't hurt us, and that the ladies
   in New York didn't think anything of a fight, that they were [DEL: use
   :DEL] used to it. [DEL: [?] :DEL] they didn't fight any more around
   us.
   
   "Business was getting worse, and Mr. [DEL: Head [?] :DEL] Hart seemed
   about to go broke . [DEL: [?] :DEL] we got another cut [DEL: be twelve
   dollars :DEL] that sent our wages down to $12 a week. And that is when
   [DEL: [??] :DEL] Milly Myers and I went into the tailoring business
   for [DEL: our self :DEL] ourselves. We rented a place on Clayton
   001715street over the Dunaway furniture store , And we made good while
   we were there.
   
   " Then Mr. [DEL: Head :DEL] Hart got a big order for knickerbocker
   pants. He came down to our place and begged us to come back and work
   for him, at least [DEL: [?] :DEL] [DEL: til :DEL] until he could get
   out that order[,?] and to give him time to learn some one else to do
   the work. He had always been so nice to us[,?] that we went back to
   help him out. ∥ " We stored our machines and other things, for we
   knew that we would need them later.
   
   "And in 1922, we rented this place [DEL: here form Lee Morris :DEL] .
   [DEL: Sally :DEL] Milly came down here then and went to work as soon
   as the [DEL: shope :DEL] shop was ready. But I stayed on with Mr.
   [DEL: Head :DEL] Hart for several months,# until his orders were all
   filled and he had some one that could do his work. But as long as he
   was in business here, [DEL: [??] :DEL] would come to our shop and beg
   us to come back and work for him.
   
   "We have done fairly well. We Made a good living, and during the
   Hoover administration, we never [DEL: mad :DEL] made under [DEL:
   fifteen dollars :DEL] $15 each a week after all [DEL: exspences :DEL]
   expences were paid. [DEL: And that is how we paid each other, :DEL]
   after all bills were paid, we divided the rest between us. We worked
   together until [DEL: she :DEL] Milly died in [DEL: Feb :DEL] February
   1938. She was taken sick in 1937, and they found that she had a tumor
   . [DEL: [?] :DEL] after that she was never well any more. [DEL: And
   :DEL] part of the time she was not able to work at all.
   
   "But before [DEL: [?] :DEL] Milly got sick,# we made all kind of
   things, mens clothing, ladies dresses, coats, in # fact just
   everything that came to hand, as well as doing our regular work of
   repairing and [DEL: alterations :DEL] alterating garments. We also
   made pants for the Cavalry Troops that are stationed here. And I still
   make them, but [DEL: [?] :DEL] that is the only new stuff I take in
   now. [DEL: [?] :DEL] there is no way out of that for they just bring
   [DEL: them :DEL] 'em and leave [DEL: them :DEL] 'em.
   
   "We have always tried to be reasonable with our customers,# and not
   over charge them. And they have been very nice to us, and we have made
   everything from airplane wings to grave awnings,# so I guess we have
   001816tried [DEL: about :DEL] 'most everything that can be sewed. And
   I have never had any trouble with collecting, as most of the time
   [DEL: [??] paid :DEL] they pay when they get the [DEL: work :DEL]
   garments.
   
   "We [DEL: use :DEL] used to order most all of our supplies from Bruner
   &Mason Woolen Co. in New York , But since I don't need so much by
   myself, [DEL: I get some from the Atlanta supply [??] :DEL] I buy what
   I can from the stores here, as they give me their work , and get some
   things from [Atlanta?] supply houses. [DEL: I have :DEL] a girl [DEL:
   [?] :DEL] helps on busy, days, and I pay her two dollares a day. [DEL:
   And another one that I do not pay a regular salary :DEL] Another girl
   works for me by the hour, as she just works when she can get away form
   home, and some times that is just for a few hours a day. [DEL: [?]
   :DEL] I like them both, and they seem to like me also.
   
   " Business is not as good now as it [DEL: use :DEL] used to be,# but
   as you see I have all [DEL: that :DEL] the work I can do, and make a
   good living out of it. I do not belong to any [??] organization, and
   if there is one here in town I have never heard of it. My days work
   here starts , [DEL: sometimes when I am very busy :DEL] around seven
   in the morning if I am very busy, but most times around eight. I
   always close around six except on Saturday nights, and then I say open
   until the stores close,# as I most always have work from then late.
   
   " One day not very long after I had gone to work for Mr. [DEL: Head
   :DEL] Hart I was walking down Broad Street, when who [DEL: shoud :DEL]
   should I [DEL: [?] :DEL] meet but the boy that came to my dumb supper.
   He had been married also, but had lost his wife not so very long after
   my husband died. And that meeting was the begining of a friendship[,?]
   that later ended in a happy marriage. He was then, and still is , a
   great teaser[,?] and enjoys playing [DEL: a joke :DEL] jokes on me.
   
   "One night he came down to the house to see me and [DEL: ask :DEL]
   asked me and one of my sisters to go to the show with him. Shows then
   only cost [DEL: five :DEL] 5 and [DEL: [? cents] :DEL] 10¢. Well when
   we were almost there, he said that we could go in the show and he
   would wait on the outside for us, as he did not have enough money for
   all of us to go in.
   
   " I was embrassed and said that we would just go back home. But
   001917he insisted that we go on. I got mad and said that I could pay
   my own way in the show. But my sister just laughed; it seemed that she
   could tell that he was teasing, and she told him to just give her[,?]
   a dime and she would buy peanuts and candy. Oh yes, we went to the
   show and he went with us ,# but I was so mad that I could not enjoy
   it. And after we came out,# he bought me a large basket of fruit, I
   wouldn't have it, but my sister told him to just give it to her show.
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] they both like to tease me now about that show. [DEL:
   [?] :DEL] it was a long time before I would let him come to see again.
   
   "When one of my sisters was fixing to get married , He came walking in
   and told Mamma that it was going to be a double wedding,# for he was
   going to marry me,# and that she would lose two daughters instead of
   one. I told them it was not so,# but he would just laugh and say it
   was so,# and he had everyone [DEL: beleiving :DEL] believing it .
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] even when the preacher came, he told them that we
   would be next. I was so mad,# but the more I quarreled the more he
   laughed. But he won out at last,# and in 1913 we were married.
   
   " We have our little home that we bought when we were married,# and we
   are still living there. We have no children, and there is no one there
   but just ourselves. But we have a very happy home,# with our
   chicken[,?] and flowers . yes, we have a lovely flower garden,# but
   [DEL: he :DEL] my husband looks after that, [DEL: [?] the chickens
   also :DEL] , and he takes a great pride in his flowers. He tends the
   chickens too. I have my shop, and he has his barber shop. And did you
   know that he is the oldest white barber in Athens. His brother was the
   first white barber to open a shop here . [DEL: for :DEL] all the
   barbers used to be colored. He learned my husband the barber trade
   when he was just a boy, and now all the older white barbers are dead,#
   and he is the oldest one left in the barber business, I mean by that,
   he has been a barber longer than any of the others.
   
   " We both work every day. I do my house work at night and he tends to
   his chickens and flowers. We have our church, and we visit our friends
   and [DEL: [?] :DEL] have a lot of company. Sometimes we go to the
   shows, but we both like reading,# and we read most of the time , after
   we get through with our 002018work at night. And then too, we have our
   car, and can get out on Sundays when ever we feel like we want to go
   some place.
   
   " But it has been lonesome here in the shop since my pardner died. And
   I sure do miss her, for we had worked at the same trade together so
   long, even before we went in business together. And we never had any
   disagreements over our work,# for what one done was [DEL: alright
   :DEL] all# right with the other. Our customers have been nice # and we
   have tried to please them, and I believe that I can say something that
   not many people in business can say, and especially in this kind of
   business. And [DEL: that' is :DEL] that's this, since I have been in
   business, [DEL: I have :DEL] I've lost less than five dollars, [DEL:
   that is :DEL] that's right, I have less than five dollars on my books
   from the time that I first opened a shop until now , that has not been
   paid. [DEL: [?] :DEL] I think that is excellent. Do you suppose there
   is another business in Athens that can show fewer uncollected
   accounts?
   
   " There was another knock at the door, and in answer to her" come in,"
   a man [DEL: came in :DEL] entered and asked her if she could sew some
   buttons on [DEL: his :DEL] the [DEL: trowsers :DEL] trousers, that he
   [DEL: had on :DEL] was wearing. Mrs. [DEL: Davis :DEL] [Davison?] told
   him to go in the [DEL: next room which was the :DEL] dressing room and
   that [DEL: Edd :DEL] Ed would get his [DEL: trowsers :DEL] trousers
   for [DEL: [?] The man went in the room and she called Edd, and as he
   went to get the :DEL] her to work on. As Ed was bringing the pants,
   she said" I have three rooms . this is the work room, the next is the
   dressing room, and the last one is where [DEL: Edd :DEL] Ed does all
   the pressing.
   
   "[DEL: Edd :DEL] Ed came in with the man's [DEL: pants :DEL] trousers.
   [DEL: and :DEL] she sewed on the [DEL: suppender :DEL] suspender
   buttons[,?] [DEL: he carried them back to the man :DEL] and sent the
   garment back to the customer. [DEL: And when the man came out, :DEL]
   he soon made his appearance asked [DEL: [????] she said a dime :DEL]
   the price off the work. "A dime," she said. He handed her a quarter,
   and said that he did not have any change; [DEL: and :DEL] that he
   appreciated her doing the work so quick,# and [DEL: for :DEL] would
   the ladies to just get [DEL: [??] :DEL] coca colas with the change .
   [DEL: and :DEL] he [DEL: went out :DEL] was gone before Mrs. [DEL:
   Davis :DEL] [Daivson?] could give him his change.
   
   "Well ," she said, we will just have [DEL: a :DEL] coca [DEL: cola
   :DEL] colas," and ordered them. As we waited for the drinks [DEL: and
   :DEL] I [DEL: was prepairing :DEL] prepared to leave. # [DEL: [?]
   :DEL] Mrs. [Davison?] said "I sure am glad that you came in today, but
   [DEL: I am :DEL] I'm sorry that I made you work . the truth is,# I
   didn't think [DEL: that :DEL] you [DEL: [?] :DEL] do it. But if you do
   as good 002119a job on this story as you did on the, pants,# [DEL: you
   all :DEL] you'll be [DEL: alright :DEL] all right. [DEL: I said was
   afraid that I couldn't do that well on the story, even with all the
   good material [?] had to work with, but [?] would [?] :DEL] to do the
   best I could. The drinks came then and [DEL: [?] [drank?] :DEL] we
   enjoyed them, [DEL: she said :DEL] I hope [DEL: that you will :DEL]
   you'll come back again [DEL: to [?] :DEL] " she said, just stop any
   time [DEL: that :DEL] you come this way, and [DEL: Edd :DEL] Ed will
   [DEL: have :DEL] make coffee for us . [DEL: for :DEL] he [DEL: does
   not :DEL] doesn't forget that when [DEL: it :DEL] it's cold weather.
   [DEL: And we have it all the time for our [?] and [?] also when they
   come by. :DEL]
   
   I thanked her for [DEL: the nice story :DEL] her life history
   material, and for the very pleasent day [DEL: and :DEL] that I had
   enjoyed [DEL: it, for it was indeed a :DEL] in her very friendly
   shop[.?] [DEL: and :DEL] as I went down the stair [DEL: [?] :DEL] , I
   knew that I would like to go back again and have another that over a
   cup of coffee . [DEL: with her. :DEL]

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