Margaret Packett
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old when recorded in 1939, was a resident of Big Bend in Haywood County, North Carolina. She was probably illiterate and was a farm housewife.
[transcripption copyrigh Michael Montgomery and Paul Reed, 2017]
That’s the trouble, they come back and Scott says he was a-coming on over to their house when Lester, when Lester come back, and Lester didn’t come back and he stayed all night but Scott said the next morning when he come to me, he said he heared somebody talking in the night, and the next morning he went on up to where they were a-talking and there was Lester and Robert Hicks, and his wife was a-laying in Lester’s arms, and his wife got up and run around the hill, and he tried to get her to come back and talk to him and she wouldn’t, and he come on over to my house then and told me he, that he didn’t care for Lester a-talking to his wife, but he’d kill Carl Miller if he ever catched him with her, but that’s when he said poor boy he was a-going to see trouble, I reckon that’s about all I know.
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Why I did?
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What was it like?
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Oh yes, got two inches left now, ain’t it?
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Well, Scott come back to my house next morning, he come on out here and was sitting right here and come on back and went to laying his hands on, his shoes was gone, and he went on up on the mountain and met up uh with Lester Brown and Ona Hicks and Floyd Brown, well Floyd stood there and talked with him, he says, “Floyd,” he says uh “Floyd,” says “boys,” he says, “I have to go,” he says “If it wasn’t for that, I’d be here with ye all day,” now that’s all I told him.