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go hunt a runaway, young mistress. You would pay him, I reckon, young


	~I did get &zne whoopings, young mistress. They used a cow hide atrap on me, young mistress. They blistered me a right smart, young mistresa.

“We didn‘t have so much to eat. They give us one peck meal, tour
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pound8 meat a weeks Mains done our cooking, young mistress. We had good

clothes, warm clothes, woolen clothes, young mistress. We had a tew sheep about the place ~ le had a few gee se ‘mong the turkeys ‚ guineas ‚ ducks ‚ and

chickens. They kept the peafowla for good luck, young mistress.

*Ftir a fact they had a big garden, young mistress. Boss William Green

worked the garden. He made us pull the plow-‘-4our o~ us boys. He said the stock would tromp down znore‘n they‘d make, young mIstress. Two of his boys and ins and George ~*i1led his plough. We had a big garden.

“I chopped in the field, picked up chips on the clearings. I chopped

cook wood rig~it sn~rt, young mistress.

	“When freedom come on, grandpa come after i~a»~a. Boss William Green told her, ‘You free.‘ He give her ten bishels corn, good deal of meat.back bone and spareribs. He come one Saturday evening, young mistress. She took ‘long whatever she had at our house in the way of clothing and such lack, young mistress. Well, grandpa was share crapping, young niia. tress.

	“The Ku Kiuckses come one night • They kept us getting ‚ em water to run through something under the ir sheets. The water was running out on

the ground. We did see it for a fact, young mistress. We was scared not to do that. They was getting ~i1inission over the country, young mit~tress. They would make you. be quiet ‘long the roadsi~1e, young mistress.