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	“She said they a].]. hitched up and put them in the wagon and went to driving down the road. Night feil and they came to a big two—story house. They wnt to bed. The house was empty, and they could.n‘ t raise nobody; so they just camped there for the night. After they went to bed, big balle of fir. came rolling down the stairs. They aU. got soared and run out of th house and camped outaide for the night. There waan‘t no more sleeping in that house.

	~8cme people be~ieve in. ghosts and s~ don‘t. What do you bsliers? This is what I have seen myself. Mitles and horses were running ‘round screaming end hollering every night. One day, I was walking along when I saw a mule big as an elephant with ears at least three feet long and eyes as big as auto lamps. U. was standing right in the middle of the road looking at me and making no motion to move. I was scared to death, but I stooped dom to pick up a stone. It wasn‘t ~it a second. &tt when I raised up, he had vanished • He didn ‚ t make a sound. He just disappearsd in a second. That was in the broad open daylight. That was what had ben causing ai]. the contusion with the nuiles and horses.

“When I first married I used to room With an old lady nei~d Johnson.

Time we went to bed and pit the light out, scmething would opn the doors. Finally I got scared and used to tell my wife to get up and close the door.. Finally she got skittish about it. Ther. used to be the biggest storms around there and yet you couldn‘ t see nothin‘ • There wa~ ‚ t no rain nor nothin‘. Just sounds and noises like stox~s, My wife cc~s to visit me sometimes now.

	“My mother says there wasn‘t any sich thing as marriage in slave times. Old master jus‘ said, ‘There‘s your husband, Florida.‘ R