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wid Miss ~amiie. We colored children. et out of trays. They hewed them out of ~ma11 logs. Seven or eight et together. We had our little cups. Grandma had a cup for my water. We et with spoons. It would hold a peck of something to eat. I nursed my mother f~our weeks and then mains. raised Walter and grandma raised me. Walter et out o~ our tray many and many a time. Mother had good teeth and she chewed for us both. Henry was younger than Walter. They was the only two children Miss Pannie had. Grandma washed out our tray soon as ever we quit eat±ng0 She‘d put the bread in, then. pour the meat and veg~ stables over it • It was good.

	“Did you ever hear of Walter Cotton, a cancer doctor? That was him. 11e may be dead now. Me and him caused Aunt &~e to get a whooping0 They had a little pear tree down twix the house and the spring. Walter knocked one of the sugar~ pears off and cut it in halves. We et it. Mr. Ed asked ‘bout it. Walter told her Aunt Sue pulled it. She didn‘t come by the tree. He whooped her her declaring all th~ time she never pulled it nor never seen it. I was scared then to tell on Vialt‘er. I hope eat it. Aunt &Le had grown children.

	“The Ku Klux carne through the first and second gate s to pa‘ a house and he opened the door. They grunted around. They told papa to come out. He didn‘t go and he was ready to hurt them when they come tn. He told them when he finished that crop they could have his room. He left that year. They come in on me once before I married. I was at my girl‘s house. They wanted to be sure we marriéd. The principal thing they was to see was that you didn‘t live in the house wid a woman till you be married. I wasn‘t married but I soon did marry her. They acared us up sœie.

	“I don‘ t know if times is so much better for some or not • Some folks won ‚ t work ‚ Some do work awful hard. Young folks I ‘m speaking ‚ bou~t • Times is mighty fast now. Seems like they get faster and faster every way. I‘ll be eighty years old this May. I was born in 1858.“