MISS CROC 7A 26



I: Life was hard, wasn't it?

D: Yes, sir.

I: Did you get enough to eat?

D: Well, I think we got enough to eat, because we don't

 eat no flour much. In the morning, my mother was

 cook the flour. She mixed it up with cornmeal and

 make a biscuit. Saved on flour.

I: So you ate what you grew right on the farm, didn't you?

D: Yes, sir.

I: You didn't have any money to go in to the stores and

 buy?

D: No.

I: What kind of fun.did you have in those days, when you

 were growing up as a kid? What'd you do to enjoy your-

 self?

D: I can't hardly remember then. Anyway, I just, you know...

I: Did you go swimming?

D: Swimming, and played ball--rag ball what they called it.

I: What do you mean, rag ball?

D: Make a rag ball, make a baseball. Play it,. me and my

 brothers.

I: You had a stick.

D: Yeah.

I: You played it just like you play baseball today?

D; Yes, sir.