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	Walter Cafloway Livea alone half a block off Avenue F, the thoroughfare on the southelde of B1rrningha~ on which live many of the leaders in the Negro life of the city. For his eighty-nine yeare he was apparently vigorous except for ternporar~ ilinese. A glance at the interior of his cabin di.eclosed the fact that it was scrupulously neat and quite orderly in arrangement, a characteristic of a great many exuslavee. Ae he sat in the eun~ shine on hie tir~y front porch, hie gx‘eeting was: NOome in, white folk~. You ain‘t no doctor is you?‘

	To a negative reply, he explained as he continued, “Fo‘ de lae‘ paet twenty..~five years I been keepin‘ right on, WUkkin~ for de city in de atreet department . ‚ Bout two mont‘ e ago die mie‘ ry attaokted me an‘ don‘t ‘pear lak nothin‘ dei~ doctors gie do no good, De preacher(he come to see me die mornin‘ an‘ he say he know a white gemman doctor, what he gwine to sen‘ hi~ to see me. I abo‘ wants to git we].l ag‘in pow‘ful bad, but inebby I done live long S nuff an‘ my time ‚ b out come • ~q
	Quizzed about ~1iie a~e and antecŕdents, he began his story:

‘Well, $ir, Cap‘n, I was born in Richmond, Virginny, In 1848. Befo‘ I was oie snuff to ‘member iauch, niy mammy wid me an‘ my older britdder was sold. to Marse John Calloway at Snowdoun in Montgomery county, ten miles south of de town of Montgomery.

	‘Marse John hab a big plantation an‘ lots of slaves. Dey treated. us purty good, but we hab to wuk hard. Time I was ten years oie I was makin‘ a reg‘lar han‘ ‘hin‘ de plow. Oh, yaeeuh, Marse John good ‘nough to us an‘ we git plenty to eat, but he had a oberBeer name Gx~een Bu eh what sho ‚ whup us iffen we don ‚ t do to
suit him. Yaseuli, h~ mighty rough wid us but he didn ‚ t do de