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	“I heard mama say they got back here to Arkanaaa and got to the bureau and they treed ‚ em. I know the War waan‘ t over yet ‚ cau~ae I know I heard mama say, ‚ Just listen to them guxis at i8UX‘t

	“When I waa little, I was so sickly. I took down with the whoopin‘ cough and I was sick so long. ~xt marna say to the old woman what stayed with me, ‘This gal gwine be here to see many a winter ‘cause she so stout in the jaws I can‘t give her no xńedicine.‘

	“When I commenced to reiriember anything, I heered ‘em talkin‘ ‘bout Grant and Colfax. Used to wear buttons with Grant and Coifax. ~

~	I was vi‘ in Abraham Linco In‘ a t Irne ~ Chillun them days didn‘ t
know	i• Why, woman, I was twelve years old ‘fore I knowed babies

didn‘t come out a holler log. I used to go ‘round lookin‘ in loge for a
baby.	~	‚~ I

	ni had seven sisters and three brothers and they all dead but me. had three younger than ins • They was what they called freeborn chillun.

	“After freedom my parents worked ~or Major Rosa. I know when mama fixed US U~ to go to Sunday—school we‘d ~o by Major Rosa foi~ him to see us. I know ‘ d go so early, sometimes he ‚ d at ill be in his drawers.

	“I know one thing~whsn I was . about sixteen years old things was • good here. J~ver‘body had a good. living.~