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	“And hia friend ealci to him, ‘1.11, you ~igtIt as well i~aks up your miM you got to 1ea~e her, ‘cauas yoe goin‘ to do it.~

	“H. got hurt on Thu~.day and I couldn‘t git a doctor till Friday. Dr.

Har:p.r, the plantation doctor, had got ht. houas ~irnsd and his hands hurt.

80 he couldn‘t come out to help us. linally Dr. Hodge8 co~. He cc~ frc

Suniiyeide ‚ Miasi.sippl ‚ and he chargs me fourteen dollars. He juat made two

trips and he didn‘t do nothin‘.

	~Bowla and pitchers were in style then. And I alwaye kept a pitcher of clean water in the houes. I looked up and there was a ~anch of ~n oœin‘ in the houee. It vas near dark thn. They bro~ight Sampeon in and carried hiii to the bed and put him down. I eaid, ‘What‘s the aattsr with Frank?‘ And they aaid, ‘The imile drug him. ‚ And they put hia on the bed and nt on out. I dippsd a handkerchief in the water and wet it and pit it in his month and took out grat gobe of dust where the ~1e had drug hi~ in the dirt.

They didn‘t nobody help me with him than; I was there alone with his.

	ni atarted to go for the doctor ~t he celled back and aaid it waan‘t no ua for to go. Couldn‘t git the doctor then, and it I could, h.‘d chargs too much and wouldn‘t b. able to help him nons nohow. 8o we waaa‘t able to git the doctor till the next day, and then it waan‘t the plantation doctor. We had planted fifteen acme in cotton, and we had ordered five hundred pound. of aat for our winter mipply and laid it up. &~t Prank never got to eat none of it. They sent three or four hands over to git their moala with me ‚ and they et up ail the meat and all the other aupplisi we had. I didn‘t want it. It wasn‘t no use to me whsn Frank waa gone. Alter they paid the doctor‘s bill end took ont for the supplies we was supposed to git, they handsd me thirty-three dollars and thirty—five cents. That vas aLl. I got out of fifteen acres of cotton.