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when old Master Billy was 11‘vin‘ . Ihn he ~nt oft to the war he took most of the ji~n black folks and~ the wc~ne stayed home to take care of miatiesa .and~ the chi1Iun~

	“My bitaban‘ been dead a long, long time and I live ~ here wid my son. Eis wife is gone trou hc~e di s in‘ • So I thought ‘ d come out end pick off s~e peanuts jes ‚ to git out in the sunshine awhile • That ‚ a my son out there inakin‘ sorghum. My daughte~r-in1aw Is so good to me. She treats nie like I was a baby.

	~Tou asks me to tell you something bout slave days ‚ and how we done our work then. Well, as I tell you, my job was nurse girl and all I had to do was to keep up iid young Master Billy and that wasn‘t no work tall, that was just fun. 3it while I‘d be followin‘ roun‘ after him I‘d see how the others

*ould be dom‘ things.

	~hen they gathered sweet potatoes they would dig a pit and line it with straw and ~s.it the tatoes in it then cover them with straw and build a coop over it. This would keep the potatoes from rotting. The Irish potatoes they would spread out in the sand under the house and the onions they would hand up in the rence to keep them from rotting.

	“In old Master Newton ‚ s day they didn ‚ have ice boxes and they would put the milk and butter and eggs in bickets and let em down in the well to keep em cool.

	“Master‘s niggers lived in log houses down at de quartera but they was ted out of the big houas. I xc~bra they had a long table to eat off and kept hit scoured so nice and clean. with sand and ashes and they scoured the floors like Utat too and it made em so purty and whit.. They made their mops out of shucks. I always eat in the nursery with young Master Billy.