"The white man turned to me at once and said, 'How much was coming to him?'
"I told him.
"He said, 'What makes you think that?'
"I said, 'We picked so many pounds of cotton at so much per hundred pounds, and that would amount to so many dollars and so many cents.'
"When I said that, he fell over on the ground and like to killed his self laughing. He counted out the right money to my father and said, 'Henry, you better watch that little skinny-eyed nigger; he knows something.'
Present Support
"I don't got anything from the government. I live by what little I make at odd jobs."
Note: In this interview this man used correct English most of the time and the interview is given in his own words. Lapses into dialect will be noticed.