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BS: When I think about it, it was a happy life, you see, like that. Now when I look at the life the children around here's got now.
FW: Do you think it was nicer then for them?
BS: Oh, yes. Yes, ma'am.
FW: In what way was it, you think? What--
BS: Because everybody knew everybody. And they had a lot of children here then. There were big families. Oh, there were big families. The school was much bigger than it is now. Oh, yeah. We had a beautiful school building. Looked just like the Capitol building almost. Yeah, they tore it down and built that thing we got now. I ought not say that on that part, but that was the ugliest school building I ever saw. It don't even look like--it don't look like no school building. . . . But the one we had had all these rooms, you know, these boards like you slide out and make the whole--make it one big auditorium for to have plays and things. And we always had plays, the schoolchildren did. And we, I mean, more or less it was just, uh, and we all played together and got along, you know? We played all kinds of games. Like now the age they are now they're all rouged, lipsticked, and--and, see, when we were fourteen like that, we were still playing Whoop and Hide--you ever heard of that game?
FW: No--Whoop and Hide?
BS: Whoop and Hide. Well, they used to call it Whoop and Hide. And, um, well, we'd go, we'd take sides, see? And have a side. And whose ever side it was to hide, see, the others would have to find you. So you'd go hide so when you used to holler, you know. So they'd come looking for you so they could find you. Let 'em know you were ready for them to come looking for you, we called it Whoop and Hide.
FW: Is that where they say "meehonkey?"
BS: That was the same thing. It's almost--we played, and then later as we got older, it was Meehonkey.