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he went to my papa ‚ s house aud aeyi ‚ ‚ ~‘ohn, you tree • ‚ He says ~ ‚ I been tree as I wanter be wheh I t s. ‚ He went on to my grau‘ 8 house and saye, t Toby, you are tree ~ ‚ He raised up and says, ‘You brought me here fi“um

Africa and North Carolina and I goiner stay wid you long as ever I get soinpin to eat. You gotter look after zi~‘ Mars Daniel say, ‘Well, I ain‘t runnin‘ nobody off my place long as they behave.‘ Pi~rtnigh every nigger sot tight till he died of the old sets. Mars ]~niel say to grandpa, ‘Toby, you am ~ t my gge‘ Grandpa rai se up an‘ say, ‚ I i s ‚ too.‘

	“They had to work but they had plenty that made ~i content • We had good times. On moonlight nights somebody ask Mars 1~niel it they could have a cotton pile, then they go tell Mars Moore and J‘udgs Reid (or Reed). They come, when the moon peep up they start pickin‘. Pick out four or five bales. Then Mars 1~.niel say you c~e to the house. Ring the bell. Then we have a big supper ~ pot of chicken, stew and sweet potatoes roasted. Have a wash pot full or molasses candy to pull and all the goobers we could eat.

	“Then we had three banjos. The musicians was William Word, Uncle Dan rt, and Miles Porter. Did we dance? Square dance • Then if‘ somebody been wantin‘ to marry they step over the broom and it be nounced they married. You can‘t get nobody ~ colored tolks I mean ~ to step over a broom; they say it bad lucks It lt tall and they step over they step back. They say if somebody sweep under your feet you won‘t marry that year. Folks didn‘t visit round naich. They had some place to go they went but they had to work. They work together and done rriighty little ~— idle vist in‘ • Folks took the knitting long visting lest it be &uiday.

	“White women wouldn‘t nurse their own babies cause it would make their breast fall. They would bring a healthy woman and a clean wor~an up to the bouse.