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[omit Nag's head—but include discussion of clouds—then man who told her 100 years ago—"they would put you to a stake + burn you". then about cloud in sky — what it looks like. making the tree — paint buckets  – put it aside — 
Then sings—quavery—eye his on the sparrow—]
[This is a first draft before my corrections etc.]
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MINNIE EVANS
M.E. Dear Heavenly Father I do thank thee for letting me rise this morning and see a brand new day, ^[[you]] tak[[strikethrough]]ing[[/strikethrough]]^[[en]} care of us through the night and I do thank you my dear Heaveny Father for all the beautiful gifts thou has given unto us, including life and His son Jesus. Heavenly Father I do thank thee for this food Thous has give [unto] us for the nourishment of our bodies, Christ Our Redeemer, Amen. 
NHS. It came [[strikethrough]] out [[/strikethrough]] ^[[apart]]
ME. It came out?
NHS. Tell me when did you first see Lawyer Rountree? 
ME. Oh, when he was a baby his father brought him downstairs (laughter) wrapped up in a lot of blankets (laughter) and he said [[strikethrough]] little [[/strikethrough]] ^[[to me]] girl if you want to see something beautiful, look ahere and he has his boy. He was crazy about him because you see he was the baby and he had three sisters. They were Isabel, I think she died seem like in childbirth or something or other like that and so the next sister named Nita. His sister Nita is the onlinest one living now up in Chapel Hill and she was little as a bird (unintelligible). [[Very fine people]] 
NHS. When did he first help you? When did Lawyer Rountree first help you? (ME Say when?) When did he first help you? You told me he was your best friend. When? 
ME. Oh yes, you know he was our friend. I don8t know we just knew them when they was, when the judge, + his mother use to come down to the lodge. They was great friends of the Joneses They was I just knew him when he was a young boy and after he come out of college before he started to doing anything you know. I, he told me that [[strikethrough]] when are you going [[/strikethrough]] ^[[unintelligible]] to visit he invited me to his home [[strikethrough]] where he was going to live [[/strikethrough]] ^[[when they were. living]] round on Summers Rest down there to bring my pictures round there so he could see them and he had this (NHS. thank you)
NHS. No, no just keep your hand down
ME (laughter)
NHS. [[strikethrough]] Why [[/strikethrough]] ^[[When]] did you bring your pictures to Lawyer Roundtree's house?
ME. Oh, I was down in the lodge, down in the park. We was down there in the lodge and (laughter) anyway he was given and he asked me to that was his wife's father, Mr. Johnson. Randolph Johnson and he was a great artist himself, a great artist, ^[[did]] some very beautiful paintings. ^[[So]] I use to take mine after I got through [[strikethrough]] carrying them [[/strikethrough]] down there ^[[+ carry them]] to his house for him to look at them. Tell me about them and he (interruption) Let me put Mama's sugars up. He said Minnie your pictures is gonna be great. You gonna have to have be selling some of them or something. You know he talked about it. I told him then I said well [[strikethrough]] and other [[/strikethrough]] ^[[a lot of]] people have told me I was gonna have to