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Show INTERVIEW: Mabel Dry and Kay Fowler August 8, 1967 Page 22 F Did you have a little farm over at that other place? Where? Where you lived over here by the trees? No. No, when did you start your farm? I think you said you had a garden and--. D: Yes we had-you mean right over here?-Yes, we had a little garden down along the road. It had fence along the road. And I had a garden there, melons and some things like that. When everybody comes from wood hauling they just stop there and go over there and help themselves to the melons. -: F: Sounds like you should stand out there with a shotgun. D: Yes, even when I'm not home they just do that. We had some melon patch way down to Two Mile and one day I said, 'Let's go down to Two Mile and I'll get that big melon. Maybe it's ripe then.' It was big like this and we saw the white man coming in here and bring superintendent's wife in-when they had the car trouble out there-and he went back. And after he went back then we went down there and I said, 'I'm going to get that melon before we go. ' So I went over there head of the garden and that melon was gone. That man took it. F: He'd taken it, huh? D: Yes, and I told that lady that he brought in and I told her, 'You know that man took my melon?' And she said, 'Oh, deep:, |
