"I could hear de people talk 'bout him. Some like him and some don't. If I got a wife over yonder, I got to get ticket before I could go to see her. Had to work hard too."
"Let us see the picture of Lincoln."
"Dis is it." (Granddaughter shows us Aunt Mary's picture)
"Is that the one?"
"Yea, I think so."
"Let me see, dat ain't de one. Here is." (Aunt Mary showed us a picture which looked to be taken from some New York newspaper. It was probably a screen star).
"Who told you that was Lincoln?"
"Some preacher or somebody come here and tell me."
Project 1885-1
FOLKLORE
Spartanburg—Dist. 4
May 18, 1937
Edited by:
Elmer Turnage