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	“Tprd we had p1eut~ to eat in slavery days.‘.saud freedom da~re too~à

	“Que time when ~r mother was cookin‘ for Colonel Morgan amt n~r oldeat brother was wor~c~~~ scine 1ar~d, n~r mother al‘vmye sent me over with a b~toket of milk for him. So one day she say, ‚ Snoolçy, conte oarry yotir brother‘ & milk and hurry so he can bave it for dinner.‘ I was goin‘ aoro~~ a field;

that ~as a awful deer oountry. I had ou a red dress and wae goin‘ on with

31~T 1flhl]C when I saw a old buok lookin‘ at me. All at once he weni ~whu-u.su~, and then the whole drove cc~ up. There wa~ mose]y trees ( I thivk she must have meaiit~ mimosa-..ed,) iii the field and I ruii and olizabed up in one of t A mose]y tree grows crooked; I doutt oare how straight you put it in the ground, it‘s goin‘ to grow‘ crooked. So I oUab up in the n~aely tree and begin to yell. ~j brother heard me and oœite tcause he ]a]owed what was up. Ue used to say, . t ~Jov~~ Snipe, when you come ‚ cross that mose]~j field, don‘ t you wear that old red drops t cause the~y‘ Il get you down and tear that dress off lotte‘ ~ I liked the dreSs ‘cause he had give it to me. I had set the milk down at the ~ foot of the tree and is a wonder the~r didiI‘t knock it over, but when ii~j brother heard me yell he come a runni&~ with a gun and shot one of the deer. I got B~e of the venison and he give s~e to Colonel Morgan, his boss marL• Colonel Morgan bad fought in the war,

	“The reason I ~~i~t4j tell you no n~re is, sizioe i got old n~j‘ mind goes this and that a w~r~

	ABut I can tell you all the doctors that doctored on me, They give ~

up to die once. I had the chills fr~ the first of ori Januaiy to the uex~~ We had Dr. Chester and Dr. Mocray and Dr. Lewie.‘-shie rame was P.riy—and Dr. Gree~i and Dr. Smead. Took quinire till I oouldntt hear, and finally Dr. ~een said, tW& 13. just quit givint ber medicine, looks like hot ~ goint to die ~ azyway‘