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*1 ju~a‘ said, bosa~ dat us git ‘long tine fox‘ mors den a y.ai‘ and us all

aigb~t7~happy~till Nia. lannis took aisk an‘ died an‘ it mighty nigh killed Mars

Dish end .11 of us sad liars bich, he jus‘ droop tor iseks till U8 git anxtoua ‘bout hSi~ but atter rhile he git better and aee~ like ~bbe he gaine git ober he sadness but he neber was like he used to b afore Misa Fannie died.

wAtt.r Miss Fannie gone, Mars Iaioh, he eay, ‘LUs, you an‘ I~ich iats‘

mobs inds bighoua. an‘ inak.yœabsdind.roomiher. de boys a1eep~ .0~ I • yOU can look attsr ‘em good, ‘caue. lots nights I gwine be out latm at de gin an‘ stors an‘ I knows you gwine take plumb good cars of dem chillun.‘ An‘ so us fixed Us bed in de big house an‘ de boys, dey sleeped right dar in dat room on ders bed where us could take care of ‚ em. ~

RI~t went on for ‚ bout two years an‘ den Mare I~ich, h. ‚ ~in to get in

bad health an‘ jus‘ wasted down like and den one night when h. ~t da stors

h. took down bad and dey laid hin do~n on de bed in de back room where bi would sleep on sich nichts dat he didn‘ eca~ ho~ ibm bi was 80 ~izy an‘ he cozit a ni~er on a naile for - to co~ up dar an‘ I nt in he row an‘ Mars luch, h. say, ~ ‘Liasen, bich, you is been a good faithful‘ nigger an‘ Ills too, en‘ I ii gonna di. toni~t and I wants y~i to aen.d er letter to lise Illen in

Vir€inny etter I is daid en tell her to c~ en‘ git de boys ‘caua ehe is all de kin peoples dat dey habe let‘ now c.pn coes you an‘ Lia an‘ it iaought be 8~ time afore she gita hers so y~i all take good en faithful cars dem till she ‘rives an‘ tell her ahi habe to ass dat all de bizness wind up and take de boyà back ild her en‘ keep dem till dey is grow.d.‘

	$VeU~ boss, us don. jus‘ like Mirs Dich t.U us to do an‘ us surs fs.l sorry for dem two littis boy.. I~y jus‘ ‚ bout five en‘ asbsn year old dsn and dey curs loved dsrs pa; dey was pluab crazy ‚ bait Mars latch end him ‚ bait dim too.