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	.	                       WorkasaBoy
		nI wasn‘t dom‘ nothin‘ but totin‘ water. I toted water for a whole

year when I was a boy about eight years old, I was the water boy for the field hands. Later I worked out in the fields myself. They would make ins sit on xiiy rnarnmy‘s row to help keep her up.


Free Negroes

	“You better not say you were free them days. If you did, they‘d tell you to get out of there. You better not stop on. this side of the Mason Dixie Line either. You better stop on the other aide. Whenever a nIgger got so be couldn‘ t mind ‚ they‘ d take him ~down and ~ whip him. They‘ d whip the free niggers just the same as they did the 8laVea,


Marriage

	“You see that broom there? They just lay that broom down and step over

it.	That was all the marriage they knowed about,
	Corn Shuokings	/

	“The boys tised to just get down and raise a holler and shuck that corn. Man, they had ftuL~ They sure liked to go to those corn shuckings. They danced and went on. They‘ d give ‚ em whiskey . That‘ s all I know about it,


Rations

	“They‘d weigh the stuff out and give it to you and you better not go back. They‘d give you three pounds of meat and a quart of meal and molasses when they‘d make it. Sometimes they would take a notion to give you some.~ thing like floi~r. ~xt you had to take what they give you. They give out the rations every Saturday. That was to last you a week,