I worked down there, doing Oyster. I did that a little bit before going in the river with my grandfather and I come back and start doing oyster and I did that with my uncle and mainly that's how I get to start because he didn't have a boat for me to go out there in.

And he said to me then, “well make one!” I said, “I don't know how to make no boat.” So, he said, “man, them boats cost a lot of money to get to somebody build just to pick oyster in.”

He said, “I'll buy the lumber.”

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