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	‘I ~uu seventy-aix. t ~ ~ wa~ young in slavery tiasa, ~ bit I can remeiaber acme things. I r•imbir how they used to feed us. ~t milk and bread or poke 3alad and corn-emal dumIilin‘ a in a trou~ and gj~ you a wooden spoon and aU the children sat together.

	“We stayed with our old master fourteen years. They were good folks and treated ~iB right. My old n~.atez“ 8 fl8~e ~J Sam Meek.-‘4.n Longvi.w, Drew County, Lrkansaa, down here below Mont icellà.

	“I got a letter here aboUt a month ago frcm tba daüghter of ny young

~	mi8trees. I wrote to m~ young mistress and ah. was dead, so her daughter got the letter. She anewered it and sent me a dollar and asked ~ ~a I on

~	the Old Age Pension list.

~	~Aß far as i icaow, i em the onliest one of the old darkies hYing that

~	belonged to ~am ioeka.

~	WI remenber when the K~L KlUX run in on ~y old master, That was after

~	the War. He was at the breakfast table with his wife. Toe know in them

~	rlaya they dldn‘ t hare locks and keys. EM a hole bored through a boi~d end put a pe~ in it, and I kaot the ~ flux e~ UP a~d stuck a ~zî throu~ the auger hole and. ehot at old asater bit aiaasd him. H. run to the door and

$hot at the ~ flux. I kflOV us children found on• of ‘em dom at the 8Prtfl~

bathj~‘ his leg where old master had shot him. “Ohs they were good folks and treated us right.*