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sacic an when ah went tuh ooae outn de garden~ ah got ovah de fenoe en got hung an moster caught ~. Ah‘m t•]lln de truth. Ah amt had no desire tub steal elnoe.

	Moiter Peter Lide‘s favorite song wuz d18: “Hit‘s er long way tub hearen.“ Ah kin moe heab him aingin hit now. He wuz a Chriatien man. H• wug white and owned slaTee but he wuz a good Christian. We didn‘ know bout no money. When we got ‘sick dat‘s when we got bisouit. We didn‘ know bout !hankagiving day and Chriatn*e. We heard de white fokes tawkin bout hit but we didn‘ know whut hit meant, .

	When anybody would die dey ~*de de ooffin. Didn‘ have no funeral, no singin, no nothin‘ jes put ~de~ in de groun. Dat wuz all. Nebber stop

work. We isvah plowed er hoes. We used oxen teams. We made good orops den. We raised all our eunipin tub eat.

	~	ihen ah wuz a lii‘ bit~sy boy Mrs. Lids use tub tell us stories at night. She give us our fireside trainin. She tolé us whn anybody wus a tawki~ not tuh but in. ~h‘m seventy five yers o].. now an ah amt neysh fuhgot dat. We oie fokes amt got long tuh stay heah now. We lives in de days date past. All we knows tub tawk bout is what we use tub do. 1~hen nah time is up eh is ready tub go cause eh is done n*h bes‘ tub ~h God, inah country and mah race.