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My mother beat bl5ouite with a paddle. ~ie cooksd over at Strum‘a. I lived over at J~eakina. ~h‘andraa Xizzy don. my cooking. Masters‘ girl cooked us biacuita. Ilaster .Tenkin. loose hi3 hat, his stick, his apecks, and oall us to find ‘em. He coeld see. Ke called tie to keep ua outer badnese. We had a big buatnees ot throwing at things. Re threatened to vhoop ue. We elacked up on

it. I never heard them aay but I believe from what I es•n it was agried to divide the children. Pa would take i~ over to ese twa every Sunday morning. We leave soon ae I could get my clean long shirt and a little to eat. We walked four milee. He ‚ d tote me . She had a girl with her. I ~ never stayed over there much and the girl never come o my place ‚ cepting when mata co .

They let her stand on the surrey and Eloweise stand inside when they went to preaohing. She‘d ride Master Jenkins‘ mare home and turn her loose to oc~ home. Meand papa always walked. ~ ‚

	~When freedom coins on, the country was tore to pieoéa. Folks ~n‘t know what hard times is now. Sc~ folka said do one thing for the best, scs~body said do another way. PoUce roved ar~ind to~ five or six years trying to do as weil as they had done in slavery. It was years ‚ fore they got back to it. I was grown ‚ f‘ore they ever got to doing well again. My folks got off to Nashville. We lived there by th. herdeet-‘-eight in taaily. We moved to Misa— issippi bottoms not far frcm M.ridian. We started picking up. Is all got fat as hog.. We farn~d and done well. We got to oin forty acm of ground and lost two of the girls withmalaria fever. Then we sold out and come to Helena. We boys, four of us, farmed, hauled wood, aamnill.d, worked on the boats about till our parents died. They died close to ~r1on on a farm we rented. I had two boys. One got drowned. The other helps me out a heap. He got s~ little children now and got one grown end married.