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	“One of the boys had a pot bil1y~-.goat. It got up on. top mama‘s house one time, It would bleat and look down at theni. They was afraid it would jui:rip down on them if they went outs It chewed up things Aunt Beanie washed. She had. them put out on bushes and might had a line too. They fattened it auci killed it, Mama said Mr. Bill Keller never had xiothing too good to divide with his niggers, I reckon by that they got some o~ the goat q

	“They lived like we live now, every family done his own cooking. I do&t know how many families lived on the place,

	~1 know about the Yaiikeea, . They came by and. every one of the men axid boys went with them bu~t Uncle Cal. He was cr-i.pple and they advised him not to start. Didn‘t none of the won~en go. Mama said she never seen but one ever come back, She thought they got killed or went on sorie place else,

	“Mr. Keller died and Miss Ada went back to her folks. They left everything in our care that they didn‘t move, She took all her house things. They sold or took all their stock, They left us a few cows and ;jga. I don‘t know how long they stayed after the old man died, His children was young; he mi~‘,ht not been so old.

	“I recollect grandma. She smoked a pipe nearly all the tim.e. My papa was a livery stable iuan. He was a fine man with stock. He was a little black man. Mama was too big. Grandma was taller but she was slick black. He lived at Liobile, Alabama. I was the onliest child mama had. Uncle ‘Tate Keller‘ took grandma and mama to Mobile • He never went to the War. He was a good carpenter and he worked out when he clidn‘ t have a lot t o • do in the field. He was off at work when all the black men and boys left Mr. Bill, He never went back after they left till freedom,

	“They didn‘t know when freedorxx took place. They was ail

scattering for two years about to get work and something to eat.