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	“When Brutten Wllliamø bought me and mama-~-rnatna was Liza Wi11iams~ iJtaster Briitten bou~1rb her sister three or four years after that and they took us to (Zeblixi or) Sutton in Franklin County. Now they call it Wake‘. field Post Office. Brutten willed us to Torn. Sid., Henry, John. was Tom ;uhliems‘ boys, and his ~ir1s were Pink and ‘I‘lsh.

	“Master 3~ohn axid Marmadu.ke Battle wa~ rich as they could be. They wa~ Yoe Battle‘ s uncles • Yessa Ford waa Marxnauk‘ s ha1f.-~brother in Texaa. lie come to Mississippi to get his part of the ni~gere and the re8t was put on a block and sold. Ma8ter Marmaduice broke hi8 neck wheti he fell downstair8. I never heard such crying before nor since as I heard that day. Said they lost their best master. They knowed how bad they got whooped on Ozoo River.

	“Master Marmaduke walked and bossed his overseers. lie went to the big towns. He never did marry. My last master was Tom Wi1l1ams~ lie was so nice to us all. He confessed religion. He worked us hard, then hard time8 come when. he went to war. He knowed our tracks-~-foot tracks and fixi~ger track8 both.

	“Somebody busted~ a choice watermelon, plugged it out with his fingers and eat it. L~Iaster TOEn said, ‘Fenna, them your finger narks.‘ Then he scolded hirn good fashiori~ed. Old Mistress ?rankie say, ‘Don‘t get scared, he ain‘t go to whoop him, they km. Fenna kin to him, he not goiner hurt him.‘

	“At the crossroads there was a hat shop. White man brought a lot of white free ni~ers to work in the hat shop. Way they caine free niggera. Some poor woman had no 1ivin~. Nigger men steal flour or a hog, take it and give it to her. She be hungry. Pretty soon a rrii~tlatto baby turned up. Then folks want to run her out the country. Sometimes they did.