Sarah L Byrd & CJ 1939

[Dave Robertson]

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"..........begin to come down from Portland, an' they would have horse 
races. My! I c'n remember seein' them people when they first got there. 
The roads wuz so dusty, an' their faces wuz jest like a siwash. Thet ol' 
hotel stood there a long time. It wuzn't so many years ago it burned down.

I us'd to talk jargon like a siwash. Once down at Gearhart some ladies wuz 
visitin' me, an' they c'd talk jargon too. We had lunch, an' we wuzn't to 
say anythin' but in jargon. One of 'em, Mrs. Vantine, wuz perty good, so I 
sed to her, "Potlatch nika mika seopose" (Give me your hat) First she 
looked kinda puzzled, an' then, all at once she smiled an' took off her 
hat an' giv it to me.

Well, I'm gettin' a little old -- 96 years my next birthday, but I feel 
chipper as a chipmunk, an' I jes like to see anybody call me "Grandma" 
thet I ain't "grandma" to."

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