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Speaker 1: And it be good and white. We got sandy loam [sic}down there, little pebbles down there, not great big rocks down there. We were about out of the main rocks of the country down in there. We got streaks of sandy rocks around the river there but where we living at today, my wife has tried to grow grass on the side that Mr. Moore is talking about drinking that water out of that well. We got a twelve-inch board well there and I told him to take a drink out of it and if he found any cold water that there in South Georgia, let me know. And I got some Indian arrowheads around the cement collar there that I showed him that I believe down there. Some come off the farm and some out of North Georgia when I lived in North Georgia. But that we got Mr. Moore, I know you know between the well and the shelter, course the shelter behind was swept yards in. Well since then, my wife, she's trying to teach me how since I'm trying to retire. I don't think you get retired when you hit 65 or 67. You hang around the house awhile and she'll give you that there goldbred broom and she'll let you sweep those yard, I believe. Mr. Moore did you take a picture of that down through there?

New Speaker 2 Mr. Moore: Yes I did.

Speaker 1: But, anyway, if you notice that picture of the house over there in that expo-book, you might see that old house at, but they was free yard not the left or north road but peak angel come of that and I kept it haired but the rest of it didn't. That was one thing that the people judged your house cleaning that you "comed" down through the country. and that uh the woman if the house kept the yards clean you expect the house to stay clean. if they kept the yard littered up the house was about the same way. You could almost judge it that way. and "nextly" they want that yard cleaned on the weekend so people going to church would see them yards cleaned and my wife today wants that yard cleaned and "caint" grow the grass in that yard cause the reason that some of the grass caint grow in that yard is because we have the traffic on that side. I've got six pecan trees Mr. Morgan witnessed that in my yard that I planted the seed, me and wife did when we moved down there in 1939 the [[?]] and the trees got up about six feet high and we went and dug them up and built and put them down and set them out there. and I was aiming to butt em' but they "aint" even but em' now and get when I left the other day the seedlings had begin to crack open. Now the meats out of those little seedlings of them pecans make some of the best cakes and pies a little hard to get out but don't let nobody-