Alabama	~ 4 -	30


	“De niggers went down to de river dat night an‘ got de bodies an~ buried ‚ em In de 01 ‚ Travis graveyard. My mammy an ‚ daddy is buried dere, too.

	“Didn‘ nobody do nothin‘ ‘bout Mister Renfroe ‘till he went on an‘ got to messin‘ wid Marga Sirnmy Sledge‘s things; stole a pair of mules ant de white folks rambled atter him ‘till dey Thun‘ him in Linden. Dey got so hot atter him dat he went to his camp in de flat woods down On Bear Creek. Dem was skeery times, ‘case dat man never had. no mercy for nobody.

	“Deyts a cave down by de burial grounds whut d~laves dug when dey run away, art‘ Mieter Renfroe stayed dere. It‘s on de river bank an‘ Its dug up, You digs an‘ starts low an~ pushes de dirt out an‘ digs up an‘ make a big room up so de water won‘t gît you. I knows whar dey‘s two of de caves on de place; my cow fell in one yestidy.

	‘When Cl‘ Marster Amos Travis come out here from Californy, he taken a lakin‘ to me an~ wanted me to leave t‘other side of de place an‘ move down dis side of de big house to take keer of di s SWSlflP an ‚ 100k atter de ha‘ S . But I wanted a big house wid four rooms an ‚ two brick I an ‚ I ii~.d. to talk five years to git it . I ‚ ~ got some rose~ bushes now dat was at de big house raglit atter de e‘rrender, an‘ dey‘s ~rowin‘ in my yard now.

	“Speakin‘ ‘bout graveyard, I was passin‘ dere one night, ridin‘ on ‘bout midnight, an‘ surnpin‘ come draggirt‘ a chain by me lak a dog. I ~ot down off‘n my horse, but couldn‘t see nothin‘ wid no chain, so I ~ot back on de horse an‘ dere raght in front of me was a Jack~e$.ian~ ‘~er~ wid. de brightes‘ light you ever seed. It was tryin‘ to lead me off, ar ev‘y time I‘d git back in de road it would lead meMf ag‘in. You ~ho‘ will git los‘ if you follow a Jack-Me-Lantern.

	TMOne of dem led a man down to de creek by dem double bridges;