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candy and sich 11k., an& dem tines when Mare J‘eff co~ was when w. had de

tua. tie juat run wiN playin‘ and lifen it wa~ in de aun~r tin we wae in de bayou 5w1-nm~in‘ er fiahin‘ continual but all dem good ti~s ceasted atter a uhile when de War co~ie and de Yankees started all dere d.bbi1~nt. Us was

Confedrits ai]. de while, leastwiss I means my m~isny an‘ my pappy and n~ en‘

all de roe‘ of de chillun ‘cause oie ~ra was and liars Jétt would er fit ‘em too and me wid him iffen we had been oie enough,

*:~Lt de Yankees, dey didn‘ know dat we was Confedrits, dey jus‘ reckon

we like moat ail de rea‘ ot de niggors. Us was akeered of dem Yankees though t cause us chii].un coss didn‘ know what dey was and de ob.rseer, ~im Lynch, dey done tole us little uns dat a Yankee was so~pin what had one great big horn on he haid and just one eye and dat right In de middle of he breast and, boss, I sire was s‘prizad when I seen a sure ‘nough Yankee and see he vas a men just like any er de roe‘ of de folks.‘

	“De war tore up thing. right sharp yit an‘ still it wasn‘t so bad here in Arkansas as I hear tolks tell it was back in de yolder states like Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. De bes‘ I ri‘3ColeOt de Yankees coi~ in here ‚ bout I~ily of de year end~ dey had a big scrap in Helena wid ‚ em and us could hear de cannons fifteen miles off and den dey would make del‘s trips mit foragin‘ tor stuff, corn and sich, and dey would take all de cotton dey could fin‘, but our mena, dey would hide de cotton in de thickets an‘ cane~. brakes iffen dey had time or either dey would hirn it up ‘fore de Yankees 001M it dey could. I ‘member one day we had on han‘ ‚ bout hundred bales at de gin and a white man corns wid orders to de oberseer to git rid ot it, so dey started to haulin‘ it off to de woods and dey hauled ott ‘bout fifty bales and den dey see dey wasn‘t goin‘ to hab time to git de res‘ to de woods and den dey conui~nced cuttin‘ de ties on de bales so dey could setf‘ire to dem