4	Mrs. Fanny Yohfl~Ofl	Hudgins


had plenty. The women on the next plantation, even when they was ~ettin~ re~dy to have babies didn‘t seem to ~et enough to est. They used. to slip off &t night and corne over to our place. The ‘~‘/oodfork people never had to go no~here for food. Our white folks treated us real good.

	Didn‘t make rauch difference v~hen. the war started rushing. We didn~t see any fighting. I told you the Yankees corne thru twice-~-~-let me go back a spel1~

	7~e had lots of barrels of Louisiana molasses. We could eat all ~e ~anted. ~hen the barrels ~~cs empty, we children was let scrape them. Lawsey, I us~~d to ~et inside the barrel and sc~ape and scrape and scrape until there wasn‘t any sv~‘eetness left.

	~ie was al1o~ed to do all sorts of other thin~ too. Like there was lots of pecans down in the sv~amps0 The boy~, and girls too for that matter, was allov;ed to r~i~k them and sell them to the river boa s what come aion~. The n~en was let cut cord v~ood and sell it to the boats. Flat boats they wEts. There ~s regular stores on them. You could buy glcves and hats and lot: of things, They v~ou1d burn the v~ood on the boat arid carry the nuts up North to sell. But n:~e, I liked the suggi~ berrel best0