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I was a mall boy but I have very good recolleotlona ebout the.. thb~s. X couldn‘t t.11 you whether ths paterolea ever bothered my tather or not. Never h.ax‘d him say. »it he waa a careful ~n and he a]waya knew the beat t1I~ and way to go and co~. Thea old fellows had a way to git by as well aa we do now.

~Th.y fed the alaves about what they wanted to. ~.y ~uld give thus

meat and flour end meal. I uaed to hear ~y fathr aay the old boae ted hia well. Then again they would have hog kilhin‘ ti~ ‘long about Qirlatsas. The heada, lighta, chittlinga and tata would be given to the alava. ‚~ ‘CouT~ I didn‘t know zm~ch about that only what I heard trc~ the old folks talking about it. They lived In the way of eating, ! auppose, better then they do now. Bad no expenee whatever.

WAG to emixas~nts, I‘ll tell you I don‘t know. They‘d have little

dances about like th.y do now. And they give quilting. and th.y‘d have a ring play. My ~thsr never knew anything about dances and fiddling and auch things; she was a Ghristian. They had churches y*i know. My White folks didn‘t object to the nig~rs goin‘ to ~etin‘. ‘~‘c~u,ae th.y had to have a pass to go anrvhere. If they didn‘t thy‘d git a bruahin‘ from the paterol•a if they got caught and the mastera were likely to give th•m another light brushin‘ ihen they got hnme.

	~I think that was a pretty good ayatus. They gave a pass to thoas $~t w•rs allowed to be out and the onea that were aippo..d to b. out wer protected. Of course, now y~i ars yœr own fr.. a~nt and y~i can go and c~ as you please. ~w thu police take thu plao. of the pat.roles. If thuy f))nd you out at the wrong ti~ and place thuy are lik.ly to ask y~t about it.