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“I don’t need no photograph to remember this,” she said “I’ll remember it fine”

The pallbearers were sturdy young e as Hiram They slid Hiram’s coffin onto the back of a buck-board Iat Scooter and his bodyguards

Scooter turned to me “Moody’s all het up because I wanted to take a raph of the funeral”

“Too bad you didn’t take a ,” Moody said She turned on her heel and fell in step with the other on

“Leave her alone, Scooter,” I said

Scooter frowned “Like I said, I just wanted to commemorate the event”

I turned to leave, but Scooter wasn’t quite finished talking

“Hey, Ben, how’s about I take one of you against this ocean of colored folks”

I spun around at him “Put your da Leave these folks alone”

I noticed two little black boys listening to our conversation As I turned to leave, Scooter spoke to them

“Hey, little boys, I’ll give you each a nickel to let me take your picture” He held out his hand with two nickels in it

I pulled nickels out of my own pocket and handed one each to the boys “Y’all run on,” I said

They did

And I went to join Hiram’s funeral procession

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