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Itippe wnt ‘with a colored woman before he married his wife. He had a girl

n~d U~rtha Ann Thippe. I beat Martha ‘bout a pair of stockings. My VtiStIeeS bought n~ a nice pair ot atockinga from thi ~ atOrsa YOU 8S~~ they ua•~i to b~tt the atockinge. I wore the stockings once; then I waabed them and ~tt them on the f~ce to dry. Martha stole them and p~t them on. I bat her and took them off of her. ~ie ran and told her father end he ran n~ h~. ~e couldn‘t catch ~‚ and he told ~ he‘d get ~. I didn‘t ru.n to my father. I run to my iniatrees, and be knew he‘d better not do nothin‘ then. ~o said, ‚ I‘ll git you, you little old black acmein‘ Only he didn‘t say ‘aoir~thin‘.‘ He didn‘t get i~ than.

0Bit one day he caught me out by hie houas. I had gone over that way

on an errand I needn‘t have don. H. had two girl. hold ~ Th•y waa Angeline and Nancy. They didn‘ t auch want to hold n~ anyhow. 8c~ nigger8 would catch you and kill you for the ihite tolks and then there was .o that wouldn‘t. I got loose from them. Re tried to hold i~ hieeslf ~t he coûldn‘t. I got away and went back to my old aietre8a and ehe wrote him a note never to lay his dirty hands on ~ a~in. A littlO later her brother, ~Tohnaon Chatman, came there and ran him ort th~ place, My old miatreca‘ n~ waa &~aan Chatiimn before she married, Then she married Toliver. Then

ehe married Reed. She married Reed last—after Toliver died.

*one old lady n~d Luily Moorshead runned in end held my mother once
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for Phippa to whip her. Lud my mother was down with consumption too. I aimed to git old P~ippa for that. ~it then I got religion and I cœldn‘t

do it. Religion makes y~ forgit a heap of things.

	08uaan Reed, my old mistress, bought my father and paid f iftssn hundred dollara for him and she hadn‘t never asn ‚ im. Advertising.

He had run away so mich that they had to advertise and aeU ‘im,