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what dey called de ‘Swan. lake Place‘. Dat place is over dere close to ~oneatoin arid de very place dat Mr. Billy 3~onea and his SOU Yøhn bought, en date zackly ho~ come dat town git ita ne~. It wa~ named for ~‚ J~ohn Tones.

	“My mars, Mark Qilidresa, he never was married. Ha *aa a bachelor, en I‘se tellin‘ you dia, boas, he was a good, fair man an.d no fault wa~ to be found wid him. Dit dem overseers dat he had, dey was roe]. mean. ~y was cruel, least one of them was ‘bout de cruelest white man dat I is ever seen. Dat was Harvey Brown. Mars had a nephew what lived with him named Mark Sillers. He was mars‘ sister‘s son and was named for my mars. Mr. Mark Sillon, be helped with de runnin‘ of the place en sich times dat mars ‘way from hozz~ Mr. Mark, he the real boss den,

	“Mr. Harvey Brown, the overseer, he mean sure ‚ nough I tell you, and de oiilieat thing that keep him tram beatin‘ de niggers up all de . tina w~ild be old mars er Mr~ Mark Sillera. Bofe ot dem was good and kind most all de t irne • One t iBis dat I remembers ‚ oie mars, he gone back to Panola County ror somepin‘ ‚ en Mr. Mark Sillera, he attendin‘ de camp uie~ting. That was de day dat Mr. Harvey Brown come mighty nigh kuhn‘ Henry. I‘ll tell you how dat was ‚ boss. It was on Monday morning that it happened. ]~ Friday before dat Monday morning, all of de haiids had been pickin‘ cotton and Mr. Harvey Brown didn‘ t think dat Henry had picked enough cotton dat day en so he give Henry er la~hin‘ out in de field. i~&t night Henry, he git mad and burn up his sack and runned off and hid in de canebrake ‚ long de bayou all of~ de nez‘ day. Mr. Harvey, he missed Henry from de field en sent ~eff an‘ Randall to find him and bring him in, 1~y found Henry real soon en tell him iffen he don‘ t come on back to de field ‘dat Mr • Harvey gwlne to set de hounds on him.

So Henry, he corned on back den ‚ oause de niggers was skeered of dem wild bloodhounds what they would set on ‘em when dey try to run oft.