“Let me see your papers? Remember, I’ve been a lawyer and maybe I can help.”

Jip is dead.

March 28th, ’65

Someone is singing outside my office, singing that old favorite, “Massa’s in de cole, cole ground.”

Memories.

I see the newspaper heading:

5,000 COTTON BALES BURNED.

Baton Rouge, last week bales were piled in the Commons, soaked with alco­hol, and burned. At this date, bales are valued at $100.00 per bale.

Another item, by the same reporter: