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~idn‘ t cil e . He wae ‚ èused of gwlne over t o de neighbor‘ S pIan~atIofl ~t night. Nine ~ was de laB‘ hour us haï to be eloeed. In. dead man come out an1 1~o]~1er,%h, ret! Ou, yes! ~ ~v‘yboiy in an‘ dots 1oc~ ~ ‘~d ~ A‘ iffen you wan‘ t ‚ you got whupped

	.	“Wan‘tnobod.y ‘lowed to co‘t. Us jes& taken up together an‘. go ahead, an‘ dat thing W~,flttfjxed ‘twéÏatter S‘rend.er. . ~ ~ ~ ~ .~ ~
~De Patterolies come frurn diffe‘nt places, an d& Tank4sleys, ~

de P~tt~, de Cok‘ellsan‘ de OEreg‘rys was neighbors~. I rnà.y öfwent to dey house an‘ dey ôlalm to pert~c‘ me playin‘ widdey littlenigger chillun, but iffén de ~attero11ers ketch me, dey claim dey wan‘t ‚ 8~Ofl~ sible. One day, dey tuck out atter me an‘ I come right here in Livings— ton, but I was gwlner run away anyhow, ‘caze I 1~d seed oie Uncle Thornton dat morn~n‘ See ‚ I was de ca‘f nusser an‘ soon as I 1er‘ de‘. house I met hirn, an‘ here come de overseer, Mr. SmIth. He sent atter me an‘ ~e sa±d~ ‘I seed six niggers in de woods whut run away, an“ asked did I see oie man Thornton. I said, ~ NO) I am‘ t seed nobody?. }~ said, ~ Nev‘ mine ‚ I make you tell a better tale ~ n dat in de rnawnin‘ . ‚ ~ So when I vient wid de siop to dem oa‘ves ~ got to thinkin‘ ‘bout dat whupping so I come ri~ht here.

“Mr. Norville had a wood-shop right ‘crost de road dere by de

~	folks Baptis‘ church an‘ I‘ hid in de back of hitdat night. But
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cïey foun‘ me an‘ tuck me back. Den dey stop me from catf nussin‘ an‘

Put iae in de fiel‘ under de head man . I was glad. of dat ‚ • caze ~I V!aflted to be wid. de other han‘s, but when I foun‘ out how ‘twas, I ~ to be back. I~it was a harder tas‘ den when ~: was fl~~5jfl~ ca‘ves an‘ keepin‘ ~em from breakin‘ lii de fielt an‘ eatin‘ UP de crop.

“I wuz a good han‘ an‘~ obeyed de owners an‘ de head mari an~~

never had no ~~4se ‘bout work. I went One tinie to Bennet‘e Station, ten .:

r~±1es h‘low hJre, w1d~ jes‘ sev~en nib‘ niggera from de Cha~nián ~ an‘ ~
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