2. right bstws•n old alesta and 4ster on de front seat ob de wagon aM my ma sit between missus Snibley‘s two girls right behind us. I recken it ~&. a covered wagon. The girls nax~ was florence and Th~~• Old n]aster 8nibl.y never whip me but old Miesu. aho did pile it Ofl Noom I didn‘t lack her. I run away. He died f6 the war was over. I did leave her ihm de war was over. s‘\ ~ ~ a heap ob ~iahwhackera and carpet bagger ~t I n.bbr ae.d no Ku Klux. I heard battles of the b~shwhaokers o~it at the lattensaw bridge j~ron bridge). I was scared might near all de time for tour years. Noont I didn‘t want no soldiers to get ~. ‘,~II recken I wo long britches wh.n de war started cause when I pulled off dresses I woe long britches. Never wo no short ones. Nigger boya and white boys too wore loose dresses till they was to~ir, five or six yeara old in them timss. They put on britchsa whsn they big nough to help at the field. ~ workid at the houae and, de field. I‘ze farIad all my life. f‘114et.(tI. ~‘*i vote -a&~i ~ tiai. I don‘t know what I vote. Noom I don‘t~ I recken I votes Deaocrat, I don‘t know. It don‘t do no good. No~ I ain‘t voted in a long ti~. I don‘t know nothin bout votin. I never did. ‘\Noca I never oin.d no land, noom no ho~ nelth.r. I didn‘t need no hcs~. The man I worked for give ins a houas on his place. I work for another ~an and he give ~ a house on his land. I owned a horsi one tilM. I rode her. . ~I don‘t know nuthin bout the young generation. I takes cars bout myself. Data all I‘ni able to do now. 8o~ ob dem work.