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whut give ‚ em fever, ~ey stay. ~ ~ t~, ~ ~ ~ 3.e wooda ai~‘ ~tt IveaY-~~pP1e root an\mullen weed. ark‘ aU sich to bile for to cyore de fever. Miss, whar was de Lorä. in dein days? Whut was ~e &oin‘?

	“But aome.of ~ away,. anyhow. My brother, H~.rr1âon, :.

was one ‚ an‘ dey sot de•“rdgger dogs „ on him lack fox1~toun ‚ s run a fox ~

today. Dey didn‘ t, run him down ~ till ‘bout night but finely dey cotch— eö. hirn, ant de hunterafeçhed. him to de do‘ ant say: UMary,Ann,her~e J

Harr1~~ en dey turned de dogs. loose on him agin,~ an ~ sich. a~ecrea~

mi~n‘ ~4~riever hyared. He was ail bloody an‘ Mainmywas a~-höiler1n‘,.

‘Save him, Lord., save my Chile, an‘ don‘ let dem dogs eat him up~ M!..~ ~

Lawler said, tfle Lord ain‘t got nothin‘ do wid. dis here, an~ hltsho‘ ~ .~

look lack lie didn‘t,~caze dem dogs nigh ‘bout ohewed.:Harrison up. Dem~ .

wa s hard times ‚ eho‘ . ~ ~ ~ ~:	~ ~ ~ ~ ‘Wey didn% ?arn us nothin‘ an‘ didn~t ‘low us to farn nothin‘.

Iffen dey ketch us ]!arnin‘ to read an‘ write, dey cut us han‘ off.

Dey cil‘ t ‚ low us to go to church, neither. 8ometimes us, slip off an~ ~ have a little prayer meetin‘ by usse‘ves in a oie house wid a dirt flo‘. Dey‘ cl git happy ant shout an‘ COUldn‘ t nobody hyar ~ em, 1caze dey didn‘t ri~a~e no fuss on de dirt flo‘ ~ one stan‘ in de do‘ an‘ watch. 5ome foÇ~ 1~ put dey head in de wash pot to pray ‚. an ‚ pray easy ‚ ‘ some- . Ji body be watchin‘ for de overseer. U8 git whupped. ferev‘ything. iffen
hi~t was public knowed..	: ‚ . .‚ .

	ntis wasn‘t ‘lowed visit nobody from place to place, an! I seed ~j~r:i Dawson, dis here same Iverson Dawson‘ daddy I seed. him stobbed. out Wid fo‘ støbs. Dey laid. him down on his belly an‘ stretch his ban‘s out o~ bofe sides an‘ tie one to one stob, an‘ one to d~eyuther. . Bote his feet was stre1~oh out an‘ tiea to dem stobs, ‚DeßLdey whuppedhim w1d~ ~. whole board whiztyoukivera laouse w14. De darktes~1~ad~ to go .‚ dere in de nig~ a1~ t$~ ~ a;~e~t .. ~ ~ ~ ~

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