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and master‘ a CiliCk9ñSo 8ta~ o~t ot your ~iaais! and master‘ a amo~cehouae, ~

Don‘t steal your miaa1a‘~and Éiaatér‘a haina.“. I don‘t atee~]. nothin‘~~ Don‘t

need to tell i~ not to.‘	~ .

	“She was teilLa‘ the truth too, She didn‘t steal because she didn‘t have to. She had plenty without ~ atealin‘ I She got plenty, to eat in the

	house. a~t the other slaves d1dx~ t git nothin‘ bu.t fat meat and. corn bread and molasses, And they got tired of that sane old thing. They wantéd 8OIIIe~.

thing else sornetin~s.. They‘4. go to the hen house and get chickens, They would go to the smokehouse and g&t hams and lard, And they would get flour and anything else they wanted and they would eat something they wanted, There wasn‘t no way to keep them from it.

	.	“The reason ehe ~ot whipped that time, the overser wanted her to help get a tree off the fence that had been blown down by a stoxm. She told him that wasn‘ t her work and she waan‘ t goin‘ to do it • Old miss waa away • at that tine. g0 hit her a tow licks and she told old miss when she cai~ back.

Old ‘White Ma‘ told the overseer, ‘Don‘t never ~it your hands on her no more no matter what she does, That‘s more than I do. I dofl‘t hit her and you got no business to do it.‘

	“Her husband, my grandfather, was a blacksmith, and he never did work In the field. 11e made wagons, plowe, plowatocka, buzzard winga.~they call them turning plows now. They used to make and put them on the stocka. H~ made anything-~.handles, baskets. He COuld till wagon wheels. He could sharpen tools. Anything that come under the line of blacksmith, that is what he did. Es used to fix wagons all the ti~ I knowed him. In harvest time in the tall he would drive trcm Bienvills where they ware slaves to Monroe in Ouaohita Pariah. He kept all the plow. and was sharpening and tixing anything ~hat got broke. Ha said he never did get no whipping.