3.82	6.91	A:	[LABOV] One of the -- excuse me -- things I want to ask you about
6.91	9.61	A:	[LABOV] we- -- was uh -- has to do with um --
9.61	14.88	A:	[LABOV] Well, do yo- -- were you ever in a situation where you thought you were in serious danger of getting killed?
14.88	18.42	A:	[LABOV] You know, where you said to yourself, well, this is really it?
18.42	19.58	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Mm.
19.58	21.48	A:	[ADOLPHUS] *Oncet in my life.
22.12	23.17	A:	[LABOV] What happened?
23.77	25.28	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Had an automobile wreck.
25.28	27.98	A:	[LABOV] Yeah? What what ha- -- what happened there?
27.73	31.29	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Uh, fellow run out in the automobile.
31.29	31.96	A:	[LABOV] Uh-huh.
31.96	32.98	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Run into it.
34.48	39.79	A:	[LABOV] Some people say that whatever is going to happen, is going to happen. There's nothing you can do about it.
40.61	45.61	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, I have heard people say that. I never said that myself, but I -- 
45.61	50.59	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ((a)) whole lot of these things is happening, y- huh -- you h- -- you letting it happen.
50.59	52.04	A:	[ADOLPHUS] You don't uh
52.04	54.20	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Ha- -- I -- uh
54.20	56.59	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I b- -- uh there are a lot of people
56.59	57.46	A:	[ADOLPHUS] is
57.46	60.85	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I -- I -- got in their head what is to be, will be.
60.85	61.81	A:	[ADOLPHUS] But
61.81	63.71	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I just never have
63.71	66.71	A:	[ADOLPHUS] mm (( )) decided that in my mind.
66.71	69.72	A:	[ADOLPHUS] No, I have never decided that in my mind.
69.72	75.59	A:	[FRIEND] I feel like a lot of things happen to people, it happen when ((you're disappeared)).
75.53	77.13	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I d- -- I believe that.
76.91	78.70	A:	[FRIEND] About being ((disappeared)).
78.70	82.32	A:	[FRIEND] ((That ain't)) going happen to me or you or anybody else.
82.05	82.99	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Mhm.
84.84	85.67	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Now --
87.26	88.27	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I uh
90.29	92.75	A:	[ADOLPHUS] got a log pulled over me one time.
92.75	94.94	A:	[ADOLPHUS] But I (( )).
94.94	98.11	A:	[ADOLPHUS] That is as bad as I ever was hurt.
98.11	98.61	A:	[LABOV] Uh-huh.
98.61	100.46	A:	[ADOLPHUS] An- -- and uh
100.46	102.11	A:	[ADOLPHUS] But uh
102.11	105.01	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I been working mules all my life.
105.01	108.76	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And I never seen a mule you could but so much confidence in it.
109.32	110.02	A:	[LABOV] Yeah.
109.83	111.73	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And I was snaking logs.
111.54	112.22	A:	[LABOV] Mhm.
112.11	113.26	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And uh
113.26	115.67	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I pull a log up here,
117.23	118.71	A:	[ADOLPHUS] stopped the mule,
118.71	123.12	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and I went and bent over and picked up that front end of the 
123.12	124.28	A:	[ADOLPHUS] log, 
124.28	128.04	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ((got the)) other log, and going throw it up so he could
128.04	129.72	A:	[ADOLPHUS] pull that and pile it up there.
129.72	131.92	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And as I bent down, the mule,
131.92	133.92	A:	[ADOLPHUS] (( )) ((he might have thought of))
133.92	136.45	A:	[ADOLPHUS] that I want him pull it up ri- right then,
136.45	139.65	A:	[ADOLPHUS] an- and he just walked right on ((off)).
139.65	144.12	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Log struck me down ((there knocked)) me on down and come on up, ((right)) on out over my head.
144.12	145.00	A:	[LABOV] Mm.
145.00	146.04	A:	[ADOLPHUS] An- -- and --
146.04	148.52	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and I know I ((wouldn't)) fall then.
150.21	153.59	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ((Because I would've)) pull it a- -- a- -- ((I would've)) laid that log up there before I 
153.59	155.35	A:	[ADOLPHUS] pull that mule up ((there)) that log.
155.35	159.53	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Especially an- -- when you snake mules with a horse, the mule (( )) ((won)).
159.53	162.07	A:	[ADOLPHUS] He'll start just any time.
162.07	169.99	A:	[ADOLPHUS] H- -- he'll get in the habit. Now, he may do very well for a while, but he get in a habit. Before you can get the grabs hooked on the log, he'll start off.
170.39	171.31	A:	[LABOV] Oh.
171.15	172.35	A:	[ADOLPHUS] An- -- an- --
172.35	174.02	A:	[ADOLPHUS] So um.
174.02	177.47	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I ((would've)) moved the log before I hitched to the other one.
179.16	186.58	A:	[LABOV] Now, uh, in every family, there's sometimes somebody who has a feeling something is going to happen. And it does happen.
187.13	187.58	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Yes, sir.
187.33	189.69	A:	[LABOV] Well, they -- they dream something is going to happen.
189.69	192.58	A:	[LABOV] Was there ever anybody like that in your family?
193.16	197.65	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, ah I -- I -- I just don't know most every
197.65	202.02	A:	[ADOLPHUS] one of my people that has ever got sick or got hurt or something.
202.02	204.61	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I dream about something before I hear about it.
204.61	205.35	A:	[LABOV] Is that so?
205.35	205.89	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Yes, sir.
205.89	208.26	A:	[LABOV] Is there one case that you remember?
208.26	209.34	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Uh, uh.
209.34	211.83	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I -- uh my -- my daughter
211.83	213.37	A:	[ADOLPHUS] died in Greensboro.
213.37	214.01	A:	[LABOV] Yep?
216.94	220.44	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Now, I do -- I -- I do believe
220.44	222.43	A:	[ADOLPHUS] there's uh
222.43	229.11	A:	[ADOLPHUS] something, though, some kind of instinct of the Lord -- must be ((through)) and by the Lord though, that uh
229.11	231.66	A:	[ADOLPHUS] will warn you of any danger
231.66	235.95	A:	[ADOLPHUS] eh eh -- eh -- eh -- up the road. I beli- -- I believe that, I --
235.95	239.41	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I don't know. ((At least)) -- I -- I believe ((he)) -- 
239.41	242.30	A:	[ADOLPHUS] warn some folks, uh some folks ((don't know)) nothing.
242.30	243.33	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ((Shock them.))
243.33	246.48	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And I reckon that always has been that way.
246.48	251.07	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And I reckon it uh always will.
251.07	253.80	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Now, you take way back in olden times, 
253.80	255.89	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ((there's)) some of the people was
255.89	264.52	A:	[ADOLPHUS] told to do certain things. They went on and done that, and then turned right around and done something else, contrary to what they were told to do.
265.25	266.08	A:	[LABOV] Mm.
266.17	269.24	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And I believe folks is in that same condition right today.
276.85	277.39	A:	[LABOV] Well,
279.68	282.91	A:	[LABOV] has anything ever happened to you in your life that makes you
282.91	286.45	A:	[LABOV] believe more or less that there is a hereafter?
286.94	287.90	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Yes, sir.
291.21	293.28	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Uh, uh -- our uh --
293.28	298.72	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I'll tell you what happened to me once when I was eighteen -- eighteen years old.
298.72	302.28	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I was living up the road here about four mile.
302.28	304.80	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And I was chopping corn.
305.90	306.91	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And uh.
306.91	311.78	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I was out there by myself, and my mother hadn't walked none in -- in uh --
311.78	314.11	A:	[ADOLPHUS] well, I'll say six months.
314.11	317.81	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Had to be toted everywhere she went.
317.81	323.11	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And there was nothing there at the house but a girl about twelve years old.
323.11	328.55	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Because the boy -- ((there was)) just a girl and a boy there -- but the boy was out there in the cornfield with me.
328.55	331.68	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And something spoke to me just as plain as I
331.68	335.18	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ah uh well, it looked like to me ((it was as)) plain ((as)) I'm talking.
335.18	338.30	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And says if you go ((yon to that)) gum bush,
338.30	342.13	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and ask the Lord to raise your mother, she'll get up.
343.40	344.25	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And
344.25	347.12	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I looked all around. I didn't see nobody.
347.12	354.97	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And I went on up to the other end, and come back there, it s- -- that voice come again.
357.25	358.69	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I looked again.
358.69	363.06	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I still didn't see nobody, (( )) either, ((and I)) wasn't no further from the house than
363.06	364.89	A:	[ADOLPHUS] about two hundred yard ((from the house)).
364.89	369.92	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I went back up there again, and when it uh -- uh -- uh --
369.92	372.79	A:	[ADOLPHUS] s- -- that voice, I heard it again.
372.79	374.83	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And I just walked around.
374.83	379.31	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ((Was a)) tobacco barn, ((then)). Looked up in the tobacco barn. Nobody in there.
379.31	381.21	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And uh
381.21	382.98	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I said, well,
382.98	385.90	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I says, uh, now,
385.90	390.55	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I have been taught the prayers of the righteous, (( )) much.
390.55	393.44	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And the prayers of the wicked (( )) nothing.
393.44	395.33	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And I say ((well now I --)).
395.33	403.65	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ((Right smart)) (( )). I just like any other sinner. I ((would)) tell anybody I ((was)). ((But I)) and I would do a heap of little aggravating things.
403.65	411.52	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I looked all around, then finally I went out that tree and got down on my knees, said, Lord, I don't know how to pray.
411.52	415.74	A:	[ADOLPHUS] But I will ask you to please raise my mother.
415.74	420.67	A:	[ADOLPHUS] So she can get up and tell us what t- -- how to do and what to do.
420.67	422.23	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And got up.
422.23	424.88	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And chopped another lick or two.
424.88	429.05	A:	[ADOLPHUS] (( )) struck me down and ((it said)), you go to the house.
429.89	440.16	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I -- I di- -- I didn't hear nothing then, but just you know, a thought come. You go. I went to the house and uh my mother was setting out in the yard in a chair under a apple tree.
440.16	447.66	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And she hadn't been out there in that yard, hadn't been out of that house, in five months, unless somebody toted her.
447.35	448.19	A:	[LABOV] Hm.
448.66	450.22	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And uh.
450.22	452.25	A:	[ADOLPHUS] She uh
452.25	455.21	A:	[ADOLPHUS] was out there that day, you know, she got up and
455.21	457.85	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ((met us)) -- uh uh --
457.85	460.11	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I was eighteen years old,
460.11	465.89	A:	[ADOLPHUS] when that sick spell come, and she got up and walked
465.89	469.94	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and lived to ((here)) what -- how many years ago? Thirteen, fourteen.
469.94	471.99	A:	[ADOLPHUS] No, it has been more than that.
471.99	474.12	A:	[ADOLPHUS] When that chil- -- how old are you?
474.12	475.89	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Elaine?
475.89	477.19	A:	[GIRL] ((Seventeen.))
477.16	477.68	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Huh?
477.59	478.50	A:	[GIRL] Seventeen.
478.40	479.28	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Seventeen?
479.28	482.36	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, she live up until seventeen year
482.36	483.52	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ago.
483.52	486.37	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Sh- -- she lived to be a hundred and some years old.
486.37	487.48	A:	[LABOV] Is that so?
487.48	488.99	A:	[GIRL] Hundred and three.
489.10	490.09	A:	[LABOV] Wow.
490.09	493.89	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Yes, sir, n- -- now -- now -- now -- I -- I -- I --
493.89	498.02	A:	[ADOLPHUS] that happened, and I -- and she was sitting out there,
498.02	506.25	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and she got up an- -- and got out there in that yard, and when she went back in the house, I caught her by the arm, and she walked.
507.94	510.94	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Now when she went to go up on the steps, I had to kind of help her.
510.86	511.51	A:	[LABOV] Hm.
510.94	513.19	A:	[ADOLPHUS] f- -- from ((that she)) 
513.19	515.40	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ((So much)) (( )) ((count them)).
515.40	519.71	A:	[ADOLPHUS] She ((wanted to go to church. Not the Catholic church.)) Anywhere she wanted to go.
520.94	521.91	A:	[LABOV] Hm.
522.10	524.84	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And got up and walked and went to the field and worked some more.
528.03	528.84	A:	[ADOLPHUS] So.
528.84	529.87	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I
532.89	539.92	A:	[ADOLPHUS] tell you, this -- this -- this -- this -- this world and things ((that has)) happen in this world is a mystery to folks anyhow. 
539.92	542.33	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Folks don't know but so much about it. ((It's)) --
542.33	545.28	A:	[ADOLPHUS] As I think. I don't know.
545.28	547.60	A:	[ADOLPHUS] But people is ((reading))
547.60	553.74	A:	[ADOLPHUS] finding n- uh na- -- and they're telling something. I don't know whether it's the right thing or not. (( )).
553.74	558.40	A:	[ADOLPHUS] All of mine, I can't read it. A whole lot of it has to come through experience.
563.47	569.69	A:	[LABOV] Well, I want to ask you about this thing, uh, common sense that people are always talking about. What is that?
569.69	571.43	A:	[LABOV] As far as you are concerned.
571.87	575.75	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, a- -- as far as um eh -- as I can say,
575.75	577.45	A:	[ADOLPHUS] now, 
577.45	580.80	A:	[ADOLPHUS] if uh I was to
580.80	585.76	A:	[ADOLPHUS] uh uh uh sta- -- start down this road going to -- going to somebody's house,
585.76	587.87	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and knowed they had
587.87	593.60	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and that n- -- and I'm -- that is ((going to)) anything, and knowed they had bad, biting dogs,
593.60	595.83	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and they would bite,
595.83	602.94	A:	[ADOLPHUS] now, I would call it common sense for me to just go right on and ((break)) right up in there and I let them know it.
602.94	604.82	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I would call that common sense.
605.63	606.36	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, 
606.36	608.57	A:	[ADOLPHUS] you come back to the farm, now,
608.57	611.34	A:	[ADOLPHUS] if I was to m- go and
611.34	613.99	A:	[ADOLPHUS] just dig a little hole,
613.99	618.29	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and plant g- -- put some corn in there and cover it up,
618.18	618.89	A:	[LABOV] Mm.
618.89	625.33	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and go on and let alone, not work it, that's -- that c- -- uh huh -- it isn't, no it it ain't going to make nothing.
625.58	627.53	A:	[LABOV] Do you think most people have it?
627.53	628.25	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Sir?
628.03	630.07	A:	[LABOV] Do most people have common sense?
630.07	638.38	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, there's a whole lot of them that has it, but there is a whole lot of times I think whole lot of them don't use it. Because I have done things I don't think I used common sense.
638.17	642.21	A:	[LABOV] Could you say of somebody he is intelligent, but he don't have common sense?
642.41	646.55	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, I can't say about the other fellow mu- -- but so much.
646.77	648.28	A:	[LABOV] Well now, 
648.28	651.39	A:	[LABOV] Is there a difference between common sense and mother wit?
648.28	649.04	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Now -- 
652.40	656.14	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, th- -- they kind of will work together, but uh
656.14	657.32	A:	[ADOLPHUS] uh -- uh --
658.32	665.35	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I just do- -- just don't know. Now -- now -- now, what is common sense to me, a whole lot of folks it might not be to them.
665.38	669.79	A:	[LABOV] Yeah. But I mean when your mother uh uh -- your father were talking to you, they would say --
669.79	673.61	A:	[LABOV] Would they have talked you more about mother wit, more about common sense? Which?
673.31	674.44	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Mother wit.
674.71	679.25	A:	[LABOV] That's the term. Y- -- you sti- -- you girls still talk about -- hear about mother wit?
680.69	682.05	A:	[LABOV] Don't use that no more?
683.16	684.17	A:	[ADOLPHUS] No, ((don't use it)).
684.17	685.93	A:	[LABOV] Well, your family talked about mother wit.
685.68	686.52	A:	[FRIEND] Yes, sir.
686.15	696.27	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Now, she going to school in ((Salisbury)). This is her third year up there at college. But n- -- now ((all the)) biggest thing they're teaching now is science and things like that. ((They)) --
696.13	700.68	A:	[LABOV] Yeah, well, mother wit is a g- -- is a -- is a deep idea, and I think it's dying out.
701.98	704.43	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I -- I -- I think so myself.
706.49	707.71	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Yeah, they --
707.71	710.96	A:	[ADOLPHUS] the biggest folks -- thing folks is studying about
710.96	711.95	A:	[ADOLPHUS] now
711.95	713.16	A:	[ADOLPHUS] is uh
713.16	719.68	A:	[ADOLPHUS] like that fellow was about going to the moon, and all (( )). When what good do it do- -- do him after he goes there?
719.68	721.16	A:	[ADOLPHUS] What can he do with it?
725.18	728.66	A:	[LABOV] Well, um, there's lot of people argue that.
728.66	734.92	A:	[LABOV] Eh, but I wanted to ask y- -- talk about young folks. Some people say you can raise kids without laying a hand on them.
734.92	736.54	A:	[LABOV] You think that is possible?
736.54	738.68	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Mm w- -- well,
738.68	741.25	A:	[ADOLPHUS] some of them you can.
741.25	745.36	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I believe soma- -- now, I got on- -- I got a girl,
745.36	749.73	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and I reckon she might have very well, I don't know as I ever ((hit)) (( )).
750.08	752.66	A:	[LABOV] Who did the whupping in your family, your father or your mother?
752.66	758.63	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Uh uh, my mother -- my father died when I was just a baby. And she never did whip me much.
754.73	757.48	A:	[LABOV] Oh, that is right. He was died quite young.
759.76	766.02	A:	[LABOV] Well, when you get -- is it better to hit a child when you're mad, or wait until you cool down?
766.02	768.19	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, it just depends.
768.19	771.84	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Some folk when they cool down, they d- -- th- they don't hit that child.
771.84	775.11	A:	[ADOLPHUS] They get -- they get over that and get sorry for him.
775.11	778.58	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And if they don't hit him when he is kind of afraid, you ain't going hit him at all.
778.58	784.87	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And the child i- -- ((will get in, say well,)) I knowed ((you wasn't going to)) whip me nohow. And he go right straight and do something else.
787.72	790.85	A:	[LABOV] That's true. One man said to me, I never --
790.85	796.42	A:	[LABOV] my father never whupped me but three, four times in his life, he says. But when he did, I knew I didn't want ((mother)).
799.32	804.33	A:	[LABOV] Well, ah, but kids today don't -- don- -- don't uh pay attention the way they used to.
804.33	806.78	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, the folks aren't raising them like you used to.
809.89	811.62	A:	[LABOV] ((I don't know)) why that is.
811.85	813.97	A:	[ADOLPHUS] W- -- ((why they come out of)) school ((up)) --
813.82	817.45	A:	[LABOV] Whu- -- why that should be. Uh.
817.45	821.32	A:	[LABOV] You think people have changed very much since you were a boy?
822.30	823.96	A:	[ADOLPHUS] A whole lot.
824.18	825.14	A:	[LABOV] How so?
824.98	825.87	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Sir?
825.87	828.84	A:	[LABOV] Like, how have they changed? In what way?
828.84	833.35	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, they -- they -- the- -- the- -- they um -- now
833.35	836.78	A:	[ADOLPHUS] people -- biggest thing now -- the biggest thing they think --
837.71	839.19	A:	[ADOLPHUS] it used to be 
839.19	841.72	A:	[ADOLPHUS] people were trying to save.
841.72	844.86	A:	[ADOLPHUS] an- -- ((when)) -- they didn't have nothing much to save.
844.86	847.43	A:	[ADOLPHUS] But since it got so they could make more,
847.43	852.88	A:	[ADOLPHUS] l- -- to my thoughts of it, white and colored are trying to spend all they can spend, unnecessary.
857.82	862.49	A:	[LABOV] That could be. Th- -- th- -- the one thing that I think --
862.49	866.45	A:	[LABOV] like to ask about, is if a girl had a -- a baby.
866.45	867.04	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Sir?
867.04	871.13	A:	[LABOV] Sh- -- if a girl had a baby and she wasn't married in the old days,
871.13	872.69	A:	[LABOV] um,
873.85	875.26	A:	[LABOV] was uh
875.26	880.11	A:	[LABOV] a lot of pressure on uh th- -- the man to marry her?
880.83	882.49	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Not but mighty little.
886.34	888.57	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And some of them better off not married.
890.21	898.12	A:	[LABOV] That's a question. I was talking to ((Reverend Jones)) about it, because it does seem to me that um -- customs in some parts of the country, you know, they have what they call shotgun weddings.
898.03	898.69	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Mhm.
898.69	900.74	A:	[LABOV] And uh.
900.74	902.55	A:	[LABOV] Uh, but uh.
902.55	909.74	A:	[LABOV] You know, women today ah um changing their ideas about that. I don't know. I- -- it seems to me that um --
913.74	916.05	A:	[LABOV] Ah, does it make that much difference?
916.05	917.92	A:	[LABOV] Child is raised.
917.92	922.10	A:	[LABOV] By a mother, you know, whether it's raised in or out of wedlock.
922.10	922.96	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I don- --
922.53	924.65	A:	[LABOV] As far as the child is concerned.
924.65	930.40	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Mm, I don't think it does. Uh I -- I do- -- ((course)) -- I have seen mm ((seen them)) raise
930.40	931.45	A:	[ADOLPHUS] oh uh
932.87	933.97	A:	[ADOLPHUS] like that,
933.97	939.73	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and they made some mighty good children. And I seen them raised that had both.
939.73	942.98	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ((even if)) uh an- --
942.98	945.62	A:	[ADOLPHUS] uh pretty bad.
945.62	952.16	A:	[LABOV] Yeah, that reminded me. I want -- what is a -- there's one other thing I want to get straight, ((and then I'm going to go)). What is a second cousin, as far as you're concerned?
953.59	957.28	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, I -- I ju- -- j- -- just don't know. I -- I uh
959.72	966.62	A:	[ADOLPHUS] In fact I I never did mm -- mm -- mm -- mm -- go with none of my cousins, but a mighty little. I was raised up with them, but I -- I --
965.88	969.37	A:	[LABOV] Everybody seem to have a different idea what a second cousin is.
969.37	971.55	A:	[LABOV] And I'm just trying to get straight on it.
971.55	974.82	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, I just don- -- I -- that's answer I can't answer.
974.36	975.42	A:	[LABOV] You don't use that term?
975.42	976.07	A:	[ADOLPHUS] No, sir.
975.87	977.47	A:	[LABOV] But, but, um. 
977.47	980.61	A:	[LABOV] They say that a first cousin should- -- shouldn't get married.
980.45	981.27	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Yes, sir.
981.27	986.25	A:	[LABOV] And I know around here most everybody is related to everybody else, one way or another.
986.25	990.98	A:	[LABOV] And uh I was trying to get straight on that. Eh, Reverend Jones is your nephew?
990.98	993.92	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Eh, he is her nephew, yes, sir, he my -- mm.
993.92	994.96	A:	[LABOV] Uh-huh.
994.96	997.97	A:	[LABOV] Uh, that is, he was your -- your --
997.22	998.71	A:	[GIRL] Brother's.
997.97	999.66	A:	[LABOV] your brother's son.
1000.63	1001.83	A:	[LABOV] Um.
1001.83	1007.16	A:	[LABOV] Well, those are th- -- the main things I wanted to -- to uh speak to you about. I want to ask you one more question.
1007.16	1011.24	A:	[LABOV] If there's one thing that happened to you in your life that you would never forget, what would that be?
1016.08	1021.75	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I just tell you the truth, I -- I have had so many things to happen to me, ah I can't single out (( )).
1022.80	1023.82	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Uh.
1025.10	1031.40	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, one thing that n- -- that uh -- worst I eh -- one thing that happened to me one time,
1031.40	1033.16	A:	[ADOLPHUS] when I was a boy,
1033.16	1035.18	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I will never forget that.
1035.18	1039.65	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Uh uh. But there's so many things happen to me that I won't even going forget, I don't think.
1039.65	1043.29	A:	[ADOLPHUS] But uh, one time, my mother was going to church.
1043.29	1045.14	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Lee's Chapel Church.
1045.14	1048.02	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And all the children --
1048.02	1050.60	A:	[ADOLPHUS] she generally always carried us to church.
1050.60	1054.81	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, I was about, I think about ten, eleven years old.
1054.81	1056.75	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, at that time,
1056.75	1062.56	A:	[ADOLPHUS] th- -- they fought a lot around at Lee's Chapel Church and some other churches. And I --
1062.56	1064.95	A:	[ADOLPHUS] old gentleman raised me, you know.
1064.95	1073.51	A:	[ADOLPHUS] He always carried me in quiet places and things, and I -- I -- I jus- -- I just didn't want to go to Lee's Chapel. I wanted come to (( )) here.
1073.51	1075.00	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And uh.
1075.00	1076.69	A:	[ADOLPHUS] That day
1076.69	1080.61	A:	[ADOLPHUS] he told me, says, you better go on with your mother to church.
1082.47	1085.75	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And I s- -- told Mother I didn't want go out there and
1085.75	1088.57	A:	[ADOLPHUS] scared of them drunk folks.
1088.57	1093.06	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And she said, well, you going stay here by yourself? I told her yes, ma'am.
1093.06	1095.50	A:	[ADOLPHUS] So I stayed there, and
1095.50	1099.44	A:	[ADOLPHUS] played around there in the yard, with my (( )) and things.
1099.44	1101.32	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And uh.
1101.32	1105.07	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Eat my dinner. And about two o'clock, had come up a cloud.
1106.92	1108.13	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And uh.
1108.13	1111.15	A:	[ADOLPHUS] We had rail fences then.
1111.15	1114.31	A:	[ADOLPHUS] (( )) about no rails, I don't reckon.
1114.31	1120.26	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Because you never did make none, but -- Had rail fence ((and uh)) -- our house was uh
1120.26	1126.67	A:	[ADOLPHUS] a fence ((runned on)) each side of it. And we was out there ((in the evening)) -- and uh -- it come up a cloud,
1126.67	1128.55	A:	[ADOLPHUS] that evening,
1128.55	1134.11	A:	[ADOLPHUS] and didn't look like much of a cloud, either, just little ((black)) on the back, back there.
1134.11	1135.78	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And uh.
1135.78	1142.20	A:	[ADOLPHUS] The wind got under them rails and blowed them all -- some of them up against the house, and all out in the yard.
1142.20	1143.42	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And
1143.42	1149.49	A:	[ADOLPHUS] it rained and thundered. I reckoned that was the *scaredest I ever been in my life.
1149.49	1152.16	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And it lasted so long.
1154.24	1156.19	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Mm, and I -- I -- I --
1156.19	1161.72	A:	[ADOLPHUS] They used to have ((debate in)) societies, who would stick to the child the longest, a man or a woman.
1161.72	1164.33	A:	[ADOLPHUS] She come home during that rain to me.
1166.55	1169.84	A:	[ADOLPHUS] She -- g- -- uh uh but it happened she missed
1169.84	1172.67	A:	[ADOLPHUS] all them -- missed that fence eh.
1172.67	1178.97	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And had come right th- -- right up between it. But they done all got blowed over before she could get up there.
1178.97	1181.12	A:	[ADOLPHUS] A- -- an- --
1181.12	1183.84	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I -- I -- I -- I re- -- uh -- ((there's)) --
1183.84	1185.94	A:	[ADOLPHUS] That is one thing I won't forget.
1185.94	1186.76	A:	[LABOV] Oh.
1187.75	1189.75	A:	[LABOV] Well, thank you very much.
1189.38	1190.05	A:	[ADOLPHUS] ((Right.))
1190.05	1191.43	A:	[ADOLPHUS] You're welcome.
1191.43	1195.37	A:	[LABOV] I really have enjoyed talking to you, and I --
1195.37	1197.53	A:	[LABOV] I appreciate ((taking the time)) --
1195.37	1201.23	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And you going put that in a paper? What I -- what all I said to you? ((I have)) a whole lot of scattering things.
1201.03	1203.08	A:	[LABOV] No, I -- I'm not going to um
1203.08	1205.21	A:	[LABOV] put it in the paper,
1205.21	1207.39	A:	[LABOV] uh, I'm going to --
1208.85	1213.41	A:	[LABOV] What we do is we study it over and write up some of the things that people told us.
1213.35	1213.98	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Mhm.
1213.98	1218.27	A:	[LABOV] And uh we compare, and then sometimes parts of it I
1218.27	1220.01	A:	[LABOV] put together,
1220.01	1221.44	A:	[LABOV] eh without
1221.44	1223.37	A:	[LABOV] quoting uh
1223.37	1232.04	A:	[LABOV] you in -- in particular, tho- -- though actually uh -- sometimes when someone has told me uh a great story, I uh l- -- l- -- like some of the stories you told me, ((very)) well, I --
1232.04	1234.09	A:	[LABOV] I do like to uh
1234.09	1237.23	A:	[LABOV] give credit, because, you know,
1237.23	1241.61	A:	[LABOV] there are uh just so many people that know how to tell a story right. 
1241.61	1243.55	A:	[LABOV] And that can explain things.
1243.55	1245.84	A:	[LABOV] And not everybody can do it.
1245.84	1254.22	A:	[LABOV] So uh it was -- Reverend ((Jones)) said that uh -- that uh you can put things pretty well and -- and I really am glad that I 
1254.22	1255.92	A:	[LABOV] stopped down to 
1255.92	1257.69	A:	[LABOV] talk to you about it, so.
1257.69	1260.18	A:	[LABOV] Forgive me for -- for being in the way ((for so long)).
1257.69	1258.69	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, 
1258.69	1260.76	A:	[ADOLPHUS] i- -- i- -- it's nice in talking.
1260.76	1266.85	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I -- I -- I tell you, I um was riding with my neighbor down here, as good a friend as I got too.
1266.85	1268.36	A:	[ADOLPHUS] An-- and uh
1268.36	1271.35	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I didn't know he had one of them things in the car.
1271.35	1273.65	A:	[ADOLPHUS] We rode on.
1273.65	1276.57	A:	[ADOLPHUS] And finally
1276.57	1278.73	A:	[ADOLPHUS] he says, uh
1278.73	1284.09	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Hester, wh- -- asked me what I thought about it. Anyhow,
1284.09	1287.53	A:	[ADOLPHUS] I told him I don't think nothing of it at all.
1287.53	1289.66	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Well, he didn't either, but
1289.66	1292.56	A:	[ADOLPHUS] then after we got to where we were going,
1294.44	1296.20	A:	[ADOLPHUS] he read it all off to me.
1296.16	1296.92	A:	[LABOV] Uh-huh.
1296.20	1301.64	A:	[ADOLPHUS] Our conversation. We rode together about four mile, and (( )) our conversation all --
1301.54	1309.03	A:	[LABOV] Yeah. Well, the sound -- see, this has a pretty good sound, and it -- if I play this back, um.