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“Maybe you’ll see that we ain’t all ot to look out for our wohtfully ours”

I didn’t quite knohat he htfully ours”

Byraold belt around the waist of his robe He climbed up on the hay bale from which Doc Conover had just stepped down

“All right, let’s get it started,” he said

The men stood around in their white sheets with their hoods off, conducting theThey discussed the collection of dues, a donation they’d recentlymother, nominations for a co in McComb

Just when it began to seem as harmless as a church picnic, Byra of new business related to the niggers”

Doc Conover spoke up “I had two colored girls costore last week They said they was up fro some kin of theirs They wanted to buy tincture of iodine I explained to ’em, just as nice as I could, that I don’t sell to coloreds Then one of ’em started to lecturin’ et the hell out of my store, she said she’d come back with her daddy and her brother, and they’d make me sell ’em iodine”

“You say they’s fros?” said Jih

“That’s sure what they said”

“Johnny Ray, ain’t you got a cousin in the chapter down in Ocean Springs?”

“I do, that’s Wilbur Earl,” said Johnny Ray

Byram Chaney said, “Johnny Ray, why don’t you talk to your cousin, find out who those girls’em educated”

The crowd reement

Another er Jackie, you know, the one that used to drive the carriage for Mr Macy? He co for work”

I recognized the speaker as Marshall Farley, owner of the five-and-dime