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Mollie's place and splitting them into wood, because she was
afraid it was going to turn cold.

"I thinks they is charging a whole lot to cut dat wood,"
and when asked how much they were charging, she said:

"One dollar and twenty-five cents for two trees."

Clarissa said she painted the house herself. It is gray
with a green ceiling. "I tells you it keeps a person movin'
to keep things in shape. I 'tends to him and rubs him wid
alcohol ebery day. For a long time he was bedridden, but I'se
taken sich good keer ob him, he's now able to put on his clothes."

When Mr. Mollie heard Clarissa talking of his legs he said:

"My foot feel like it dead."

Clarissa assured him that it would soon be all right, and
then told of a Negro man who went in Mr. Mollie's bedroom one
day when he was very sick, and said to Mr. Mollie:

"Well, you is done for." The writer could see Clarissa's
eyes flash as she was talking, "I got dat nigger out ob dere"
she continued, "and I gib him a piece ob my mind. I tole him
he shouldn't ob tole Mr. Mollie dat. You should hab tole him,
'he'd soon be up fum dere and well again.' Atter dat I wuz keerful
who I let goes in an' see him."

After a short time Mr. Mollie looked as though he was tired,
so the visitor thanked him and bid him goodbye, and as he left,
he was deep in thought as though the conversation had carried
him back through the years of the past. Clarissa walked back
to the car with the visitor, talking continuously as though she

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