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~nd make a mess. :~~t we kept healthy j~xat the aeme • Didn‘ t have no pneunionia In thoae days.

	“The house had two rooms about eight feet apart. The rooms were connected by a hail which we called a gallery In those days. The hal]. was covered by the same root as the house and it had the same floor. The house

V	.~2! east and west and had a chimney In each end. The chimneys were made out

of sticks and mud. I can build a chimney now like that.

	wIt was large at the bottom and tapered at the top. It was about six 01‘ seven reet square at the bottom. It grew ~nal1er as it went toward the top. You could get a piece of wood three and a halt or four feet long in the ~ ~ ~ So~times the wood would be too large to carry and you would just have to roll it in.

	“The floors was boards about one by twelve. There were two doors in each room~one leading outside and the other to the hail. if there were any windows, I can‘t remember them. We didn‘t need no windows for ventilation.

	“This was the house that I remember first after freedom. I remember living in it. That was about seven or eight years after freedom. My father rented it fran the big man named AlfGeorge for whom he worked. Mr. George

used to come out and eat breakfast with us. We‘d get that hoecake out of the ashes and wash it off until it looked 1like it was as clean as bread cooked in a skillet. I have seen my grandmother cook a many a one in the fires We didn‘t use no skillet for corn bread. The bread would have a good firm antat on it. But it didn‘t get too hard to eat and enjoy.

	ltt d take a poker befo i‘s she put the bread in and rake the ashes off the

hearth down to the solid stone or earth bottcin, and the ashes would be banked

in two hills to one 8ide and the other. Then she wuld put the batter down on it; the batter would be about an inch thick and about nine inches across.