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Old lady R‘~nnah Bsnka dons ths cooking for everybody and alte cooked on a big tir.placs. Thsy didn‘t have ne stov. ~ I ~ot her~~ bsfoi‘S thS~ 3t!~Y~~_fit~d. ~ and pa ead ail the groin OfleB would gt up at tour o‘clock

and eat breakfast and b. in thi field workin‘ by sunup. They had a box with ehelves drove up on the aide of the wall to the cabin whsre wo alept and old lady Renush ~xiks would ~*it our breakfast in that and when we woke up we would get it and eat. One morning I woke up before the other chillun did and ‘cided I‘d git my bmakfaet firat ‘tore they did. I ohm up, rech up and got holt of that box and I was so heavy I pilled it dom and broke ail the old blue edge platea. That woke the other chiflun up all right, end I can jee eee them old blue edge platee now. For dinner they would give ua boiled greene or beans vid bread and for supper they w~ild eaTs the slop (liq~uor), cre~ it full of bread, pour it in a tray end giv it to all the chillune and ~‚ aister Tulia, Nancy, Lizzie, Marthy, end all th. little nigger chillun.~


Telitha: ~Thzh~ Old aen Givsne had 80 many little nig~r chillun couldu‘ feed ‘em in no tray. Rad to haT. troughs. They‘d take a log end hollow it out end make thres tubs in a ro~ and pit peg legs on it and a ~ hole in the bottom ot each one with a pin in it. They would uae these tuba to waih th. clothes in and pull the etem up to let all the water run out, clean ‘sei out real good, fill with bread and pot-licker or bread and milk, and f‘s.d the nigger chillun.*


3ack: “Toe eay our nephew wants to co~ out and bring a b~inch ot youn~ folks and wants n~ to take them ‘poaaum hunting acme moonlight night? ~o, aho, I‘ll go.“