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Project No. 1885- (1)
Prepared by Mrs. Genevieve W. Chandler
Place, Murrell's Inlet, S. C.
Date, Dec. 15, 1936
Typed by L. Y.

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CHILLUN HOME

"Great big ole simptin. All duh sumptin tuh eat---Fadder! Magine how dat duh way hit wus. All duh leetle chillun git roun. Jess lak dey pour food fuh hawg een trouf. Ebery chillun on plantation. Ebery chillun on plantation-whom-some-eber hit be. Hab tass'um. (Give each one a task). Wouldn't git tru, tie on hoss'um lawg-big ole hawg-set barrel uh lawg-on tie'um down en whip'pum.

"Mausser treat one ole man. (Dey wuz two on'um). Ketch one. One git way. Crawl up een hollow tree. Don't know wedder 'e die uh not. Nudder went dere en see diss skelekin een th' tree. 'E tauk (talk) tuh skelekin en skelekin tauk back tuh'em.

Skelekin say, "Mouf hab bring me heah!"

"Capin, Boss" (Duh man gone back en tell duh Capin). "I kin carry yuh back there en hit'll talk tuh yuh."

Wouldn't talk! So boss man say, "Ef hit doan tauk, I'll shoot yuh down!"

En th' skelekin wouldn't tauk.

Boss shoot'em down! Dem skelekin tauk.

"Mouf brought yun heah!"

Lef'em! Lef'em! Two skelekin!

"Tell yuh mouf bring yuh heah!"

Text from: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project Collection