They cook on the fireplace. Nigger8 didn‘t have no guns fo the war an n.uthin to shoot in one if he had one whut he picked up somewhere after the war. The Ku K1ii~x done the upri8in. They say they won‘t let the nigger enjoy freedom. They killed a lot of black folks in Georgia and a few white folks whut they said was in wid em. We darkies had nuthin to do wid freedom. Two or three set down on you, take leaves and build a firs and burn their feet nearly off. That the way the white folks treat the darky.

	I nev~r knov~ed nobody tohold office. Them whut didn‘t want to starve ~ot someplace whut he could hold a plow handle. Ydu don‘t know whut hard times is. Dem was liard times. They used to hide in big cane

. brakes, nearly wild and nearly starved. Scared to come out. I ain‘t wänted‘ to go back to Georgia. •

	The folks I lived wid fo I corne to Tennessee, he tanned hides 4own at the branch and made shoes and he made cloth hats, woôl hate. ~ He sold them. ~Je farmed but I ~~atched thera up a~ the “house xainu a time.

	•One th1n~ I recollect niighty well. Fe de war a big bellied great monster man come in an folks made a big to do over him. lie eat round • and laughed round havin a big t irne • His name was Mr. ~imbeish ( ?) • He wo white britches wid red. stripes down the sides and a white shad tail coat all trimmed round de edges wid red and a tall beaver hat. He blowed a bugle and marched all the men every Friday ebening. He cczae to Lass Prances. They fed him on pies and cakes and rae bii~shin the flies off ira and my mouth fairly ~aterin for a chunk ob de cake. When de first shot of ;~ar went off no more cc.~id be x~eard ob old Mr. Ylirribeish. He 1sf an never was heard tell ob no mo. He saidnever was a Yankeehad. a hart.
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