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on de side de road eatin‘ his dinner, he buried in Captain cones.‘ place
~.	j_n de bend. yonder.

. . . ~ ~Yassum, I been drug about and put through de shackles so bad. I ~one forgot some of dey naines, and ~ mos‘ bun‘ now and can‘t hear

.„~	~:ood neither. B~t my eyes is good nuff for to see ghosts, but I don‘t b‘lieve in ‘em, ‘ca‘se I‘d. see dem chillun somet~.me effen dey was

.‚	~hOS1~S . I know Id see my boy, ca ‚ se dey showed me his head whar dat Liiller boy hit him in de head wid a spade and split his head. wide open, slip up ‘ hirn and all he said was tßqueek, t j es. ‚ lack a hog ‚ and. he was dead. And de murderer live right here but dey raove and now Im here. When hit rain us jes‘ gets under de bed ‘ca‘se de house ain‘t ~ot no top on hit.

	.	HI can‘t say Marse Garrett wa‘n‘t good to ui ďnotherless chillun but de overseer, Mr. Woodson Tucker, was rneai~ as anybody. He‘d whup You nigh ‘bout to deaf, and had a whuppin‘ log what he strip ‘e~back

	nr.~ed and lay ‘em onde log. He whup ‘era wid a wide strop, wider‘n ray :h)~pt, den he pop~.;de blisters what he raise and ‘nint ‘em wid red pepper,

salt, and vinegar. Den he put ‘em in de house dey call de pest house and have a ‘oman stay dere to keep de tlys offen ‘em ‘twell dey get a~)le to move . Den dey had reg‘ lar men in de fi elds wid. spades ‚ and

.	if~‘en you didn‘t do what you git tole, de overseer would wrop dat strap.

‘roun‘ his han‘ and hit you in de haid. wid de wooden handle ‘tu he ::it you. Den de r~aens would dig a hole wid de spades and throw ‘ern.in ~ ri~ht dere in de fiel‘ jes‘ lack dey was cows-~didn~t have no ‘~ral nor nothin‘.

	‘Ws had a heap of houses in de quarters rIght on bofe sides de ~~T: douse. Us could step outer one house to ‘tother. But, ~ I ~idn‘t work so hard or have no trouble either. I was in d.ehouse atter ~:~r~8 come horae and foun‘ me splittin‘ rails and. plowin‘. He ‘lowed.
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