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	~He ran away, aud he took the money with him, too. He went out to Kansas City and bought .a hcme. We did&t think much of it, because we knew it was wrong to do it. ~it Old Master Torn had done a heap of wrong too. He was the first one spotted the boat that morning-~Char1e8 was. And he went away on it .


Plenty to ~at

“My father wo~tld kill a hog and keep the neat in a pit under the house.

I know what lt is now. I didn‘t know then. He would clean the hog and

everything before he would bring him to the house. You had to corne dom

outside the house and go into the pit when you wanted to get meat to eat.

I~ ray father didn‘t have a hog, he would steal one from his master‘s pen

and cut its throat and bring it to the pit.

	“My tolks liked hog gu~ts. We didn‘t try to keepthem long. We‘d jus‘ clean ‘em and scrape ‘em and throw ‘em in the pot. I didn‘t like to clean ‘eiii but I sure loved to eat ‘em. Father had a g,eat big pot they called the wash pot and we would cook the chlt‘lins in it. You could sniell ‘em all over the country. I didn‘t have no sense. Whenever we had a big hog kuhn‘ ‚ I would say to the other kids, ‘We got plenty of meat at our

se‘

	“They would say back, ‘There you got it?‘

	“I would tell ‚ ein. And they would say, ‚ Give U8 ~

“And I would say to them, ‘No, that‘s for us.‘

“30 they called us ‚ big niggers. ‚
	.	M~1?i~O8 Since Freedom


	“My fir8t baby was born to ray husband. I didn‘t throw myself away. I married Mr. Cragin in 186?. He lived with me about fifteen years