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“I came hore—~‘1enzae see, about how many yeara ago did I come here0 I gttess I have been In Arkansas about twenty-eight years aince the first tj~ I come here • I have gone in and out as I got a chance to work aomewhei‘ea,

I have seen living in this house about three yeara.

~ . “I preached for about twenty or more yearß. I don‘t know that I call myselt a preacher. I am a pretty good talker aoinetimea. I have never pastored a church; somehow or ‘nother the word come to me to go and I go and talk. I ain‘t no pulpit chinch. I could have taken two or three men‘s churches out from under them, but I didn‘t.


Freedom and Soldiera

	“I can‘t remember just how my father got freed. Old f‘Olks then didn‘t	î let you stan‘ end listen when they talked. It you did it once, you didn‘t

	do it again. They would talk while they were together, but the children would have bUsiziesa outdoors0 ~ Yes airee, E never heard them say much about how they got freedom.

	“I was there when the Yankees come through. That was in slave ti~. They marched right through old man Madden‘ a grove. They wer playing the fifes and beating the druma. Aiid they were playing the fiddle. Yea air, they were playing the fiddle too. It must have been a fiddle; it sounded jU8t like one. The soldiers were all just a aingin‘ • They didn‘t bother nobody at our house. If they bothered anything, nothing was told me about

it.	I heard my ~xncla say they took a horse from my old manager. I didn‘t see it, They took the best horse in the lot my uncle said. Pardon me, they didn‘t take him. A peckerwood took him sud let the Yankees get him. I have heard that they bothered plenty of other places. Took the best mules, ei~d left old broken dowa ones and things like that • Broke things up. I have heard that about other places, but I didn‘t 8~8 ShY Of it.