Note: Bessie Jones recounts how in 1934 she saw a black man staring at white quadruple amputee begging from a little rolling cart (he had lost his limbs in a train wreck, she thinks). He gave the man four quarters on four separate occasions, explaining, "You're the only white man in the South I ever saw the way I wanted him to be [i.e., helpless]. If I had two dollars I would have given it to you – a quarter at a time." Bessie Jones thinks it was awfully cruel, but she laughs anyway.