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	uI~ knowed 01e Marster went to de war, tcaze. I heer4 de folks. talUn‘ bout hit an‘ wonaer iff!en ~ Marster g‘wirle git kilt. ~ Den I heerd. ‘eni say de nigger~ was free, but us didn‘t leave 01e Marster for ~ bout a year atter de ~ render. • Den us went to lib- on de ‘young mi.sti~st place at‘ Barlow Bend, atter she mated..Mr. Böb Flynn. Right dar I stayed twell I was grown and rna‘ed. Den de fust move to town, us corne up de Alabama Ribber to Jame~‘ Landin‘. I members aJ.1 de big boats on de ribbér. Dey. sho‘ was fine ‘uns.

	“Den, I ‘rnembers atter I growed. up dey tel). ‘bout how de Yankees commt here ant how dey pester de white folks an‘ de niggers, too • ~roke in dey smoke—house s ‚ burn ~ em up ‚ 1 ~ I row t‘ ings away an‘S lef‘ nobody flottin‘ to eat. I don‘t ‘member dat ‘caze I was“too


	ULady, you ax rite iffen us knowed. anyt‘ng ‘bout hoodoo? Yes, rna‘arn dere sho‘ was foI1~ses what could put speils on you. I sho‘ was skeered ot dem kin‘ too. Atter I wasnearly gro~*, dere was a gal name Penny what been down sick a long time ant. derewas a cun~ jer doctor wukkin‘ on her tryin‘ cyure~ her, but her~wan‘t ‘greeable, so he let her die. Den ~ boy, name Ed, he had a mis‘ry in he foot, ~n‘ hIt went ut he leg an? he cripple. Dere was a hoodoo doctor in d~e forTçs o‘ ‘Bigbee Ribber come tend on hirn, an‘ he toi‘ ebber‘body ~it outten de hou~‘e ‘cep‘nt him an‘ Ed ant de Debil. Re cyured. Ed. smack well.

	“My mammy said I was borned wid a tzernjnt eye to see sperits, q~t ~ seed surnp‘n lak a cow wid no haid. So mammy made me stir de fresh lard when dey was rendin‘ hit, ‘caze dat cyures you of seem‘ de sperits. Atter I stirred de lard, I didn‘t see ‘em no mo‘.

	‘tOne time I was splittin‘ rails wid a nigger what could do any~ thin‘ ‚ but he. was a bad man an‘ I was ‘feered of‘ hirn. I toi‘ him,