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 Because you Care] speaking of the churches, how well I remember that
 old church down there at the reservation when I was a small kid. We
 got up on Sunday morning, we started four miles to that church through
 woods over here at Catawba Road, wagon roads going back in there to
 'em. That was every Sunday morning. We stayed all day over there,
 come back at night by lantern light.

E: You'd take something to eat?

G: No, there was people'd invite us to dinner and people were more or
 less friendly then. They would just ask you come over to eat dinner
 with us or eat supper with us, spend a day with us, or something like
 that.

E: Then you'd come home by lantern light at night?

G: Come by lantern light at night. That seemed like the longest four
 miles I ever walked in my life.

E: What kind of music did you have? You had an organ in the church?

G: They had an old organ, and they kept that in use for a good many years,
 until they got a piano.

E: Did you ever hear your parents or your grandparents tell any of the old
 stories about the Indians: where you came from, or the history of the
 Indians?

G: As a matter of fact, my grandfather, Wesley Harris, did not talk that
 much. I mean they didn't say nothing 'bout it, because we have, I
 think, a history of the Indians 'bout as near direct as anybody can
 give us. They came from Jerusalem and around in there, they came
 across the Pacific Ocean. That's something nobody know. The came over
 here before Columbus did. They landed in South America and Central
 America and ended up over there. There was at least four parties that
 came over here. But yet there was enough of 'em left to survive a
 battle that was going on to inhabit the rest of the earth up here in
 North America.

E: Didn't your parents talk about any of the fairies or the little men, and
 to me they would do that at night, my father would frighten me.

G: They never did. There's very little I can remember of my kinfolks. I
 used to stay at my grandfather and grandmother all the time. My father
 and mother worked for Edmund Edwards over here. We came across that
 old Taylor Bridge up here, what used to be up here. I remember that
 very distinctly, come across that bridge before the big flood hit.