Weekending Aug.G, 1937.	Mary A. Poole,	3. 3
S‘.260	:	Identification No.0149-4366
S~2QQ		Federal Writers‘ Project,Diat.2.
	.	WPA Project 3609, Mobile, Ala.

CHARLIE J~ARONS ‚ ~X~-CLAVE ‚ SJ~YS I1~

LOVED YOUNG MARSTER JDHN .

(Coinp i].e d by Mary A • Po oie.)

these l8r~e wagons ‚ sone tizne~ having four mules to a wagon. They then would have a jolly time alone the way, singing and. calling to ox~ another, and n~king friends.

	Uncle Charlie, said, he drove i~ieny a load o~ cotton In the 1ar~e mule wagons from Newton Station to Enterprise ‚ Miasissippi •

	When asked if that wasn ‚ t a chance to ruii away ‚ he replied:

	“Git away, why Madam, those nigger dogs would track you and all you got was a beating.“

	Uncle Charlie seemed to look off in the distance and said, you know, Madam, I never saw a slave rebuked until I caine to &ississippi, and I just couldn‘t understand at first, but he grinned end said: “Lordy, Madam, sont of those niggers were onery, too, and a nigger driver was a driver sure anough.“

	When the Master‘s son John Harris went to war, Charlie went with his as his body guard, and when asked what his duties were, he replied:

	“I looked after Iviarster ~Tohn, tended the horses end the tents. I recalls well, Madam the siege of Vlcksburg.“

	The writer then asked him if he wasn‘t afraid of the sliot end shell all around him.

	“No ‚ Madam „ he repl le d ‚ „ I ke pt way In t he ba ek w1~ re the ce~nip was, far I didn‘t like to feel the earth trembling ‘neath my feet ‚ but you see ‚ Mad&a ‚ I loved young Marster John ‚ and he loved