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but you know it was all in de woods den ‘bout tift.en ailes down de ribber from Helena and just thick wid cansbrekes~ 80 he sont ‘bout twenty fambliss ober here and data how us happened to come ‚ cause my pappy, he was a extra blacksmith and carpenter end oie mars knowed he gwine to haf to hab him to

t slat in bufidin‘ de houses end sich like.

~	*Though I was just t bout sehen year oie den, howso.~evsr, I ‘asinbsr it

~.ll en‘ I surs did hats to leave do oLe ho where I was borned and I didn‘ want leave Mars J‘~ft either and when Mars J‘eff foun‘ it out ‘bout ‘em guns take x~ he cut up auful and just went on, sayin‘ I his nigger and wasn‘t gvl,ne ‘way off to Arkansas.

*Ole mars, he knowed my men.y and pappy, dey wasn‘t gwins be satisfied

widout aU dore chillun wid ‘sa, so en coures I was brung on too. You sees ois wars and he taiably, dey didu‘ come and we was sont under de oberseer what was ne~~ J‘iu Lynch and us co~ on de train to Me~aphis and dat was when I got so skeered ‚ cause I hadn‘ nsbbsr seen no train ‚ fore den an‘ I just hollered an‘ cried en‘ went on so dat my ~iy say it I didn‘ hush up she giin~e give IM to de paddy rollers.

*J~y put us on de steamboat at Mem~hia and de nsx‘ I ‘~esiber was us

gittin‘ off at de anm. it was in de winter ti ‘bout las‘ of Yamiary us git here end de hen‘s was put right to work clearin‘ Ian‘ and buildin‘ cabins. It wa~ surs rich lan‘ den, boss, and dey jus‘ slashed de cane and deaden de timber and when cotton plantin‘ tine come de cans was layin‘ dere on de groun‘ crisp dry and dey sot firs to it and 1~irned it off clean end den planted de crops.

SOl. wars, h. wc*~ld cos~ from Llabaiia to see ‚ bout de bizness two en‘

three times every year and on s~ of dem ‚ casions he would bring Mars ~reft wid him and Mers Jeff, he allue nebber tailed to hab eoa.thin‘ for ~