"I went to school a little, but chillun in them days had to work. I was always apt about washin' and ironin' and sewin' and so if anybody was stopped from school I was stopped. I used to set pockets in pants for mama. In them days they weaved and made their own.
"They'd do better if they had a factory here now. Things wouldn't be so high.
"Oh Lord, yes, I could knit. I'd sit up some nights and knit a half a sock and spin and card.
"My mother's boys would card and spin a broach when they wasn't doin' nothin' else, but nowadays you can't get 'em to bring you a bucket of water.
"They say they is weaker and wiser, but I say they is weaker and foolisher. That's what I think. You know they ain't like the old folks was. Folks works nowadays and keeps their chillun in school till they're grown, and it don't do 'em much good-some of 'em."
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor
Person interviewed: Frank Wise, 1006 Victory Street,
Little Rock, Arkansas
Age: 81 to 85
Birth and Parents
"I was born in Burch County, Georgia, in 1854. I came to this state in 1871; I think I was about sixteen years old then.