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and joined Yudge Reid‘ s (or Reed‘ s) . We all had a big time on them three farms. They was good to their niggers but Mr. ______ they said whooped his niggera awtul heep.

	w~g~ Amiek was Mars Daniel Johnson‘s overseer. He told him he wanted hi s slave s treated mighty good and they was good • Ye8 ma‘ am, they was good to ein2 I We had a plenty to eat • Every Saturday they killed a lamb ‚ a goat or a yearlin‘ and divided up mong hi8 folks and the niggers. Us ohilden would kill a peatowl and. they let us eat em. White folks didn‘t eat em. They was tender seem like round the head.

	“Miss Eveline was Mars i~niel‘s sister. She was a old maid. Miss ßvaline, Aunt Belie old nigger woman and Brittain old nigger man done nuthin‘ but raise chickens, geese, guineas, ducks, pigeons. They had a few turkeys and peafowis all the time. When they stewed chicken it was stewed in a big black pot they kept to cook fowls in. They fry chicken in a pot er grease then turn drap sweet biscuit bread in. They put eggs in it, too. They call it marble cakes. Then they pour sweet milk in the bottom grease and make good gravy. When they rendered up lard they always made marble cakes. They cut marble cakes all kind er shapes and twisted em round like knots and rings. They take em up in big pans big as dish pans.

	“We had plenty to eat and plenty flannel and cotton check dresses. Regular women done our q~ilti~‘ and made our dresses. She made our dresses plain wai st ‚ full ~athered skirt and buttons & wn the backs on our waist.

	“I was named for Miss Betty ~ohnson. Mars ~niel bought me books. I slip and tear ABC ‚ s outen every book he buy for me • Miss Betty say A-B-.C.-D; I say after her. She say, ‘Betty, you ain‘t lookin‘ on the book.‘ I say, ‘Mi se Betty ‚ I hear Miss Cornelia‘ s baby woke up. Agin Miss Betty