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SEER OF CORSICANA
"And so September Mama come in the kitchen one evening.
She says, I want y'all childern-we done picked all our best
cotton, and I want y'all childern in the morning to get yo' sacks,
and, Annie, you git yo' flour sack'-you know I was small-'and
I want y'all to go to the field in the morning up here in front
of the house.'
"I say to the childern, 'M-m-m.' I already happy. I
say, 'M-m-hm-hm.' "
She hummed in a low, resonant voice.
"I says, 'We ain't gonna pick no cotton in the morning.' I
says, 'Icicles is gonna be hanging that way. Tree limbs all broke
in the yard.' So the next morning Mama got up to cook break-
fast and send us to the field. She went to the back door. She
says, 'Oh, childern,' says, 'look on the ground.' Says, 'I've never
seen nothing like this befo'.' Says, 'That child said that last
night, Mama ain't gonna whup me no more, so I started to slap
her. So looky here.' She says, 'Childern, come and look,' and the
childern run and looked.
"I was setting back in a little room like that little
room yonder."
She pointed to the room where she reads.
"Setting down on a little box, jest a-rocking. Jesus spoke sal-
vation to my soul. Says, 'Annie, I want you to give up mother
and father, brother and sister, friends and relations and give
up the world, and just serve the Lord.' I was so glad I didn't
know what to do. I'm so glad it was Jesus fixed me and
wasn't man."
Her voice became emotional, the words came faster. I
asked how she reads people.
"I tell the future and the past. That's all people's got in the
world-future and past. Yo' life is in yo' palm, circling in yo'
blood. I read by blood circling-yo' blood circling. It's not by
yo' lines, it's yo' blood carried to the palms of yo' hands. I reads
hands."
"I've never heard of that kind of reading," I said.25
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Boatright, Mody Coggin. And Horns on the Toads, book, 1959; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38856/m1/38/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.