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	“There are quite a few old pera~ns around Woodson that can give y~i j~forxnat ion. aLt that is in Saline County, I think. Sweet Home ‚ Wrighta. ville ‚ Poltee-—all of them have a few old colored persona on the f~arm that was here in slavery times.“







Interviewer‘s Conmient

	Reeves‘ story was taken because ot his clear niemorlee of hie parente and grandparente. Re described to me an old log house etill atanding in

Union County.

	I got all agog with excitement • I asked him for the exact beat ion. He gave it • Then I eugge sted that maybe he would go down with rile sanietime to visit it. ~ie agreed. Then at the last moment caution be~aii to a8sert itself, and I said, “When was the last time you saw the cabin?“

	He reflected a moment; then he said, “Waal, I giese it was a little more ‘an fifty years ago.“

I lost my enthu8ia~.


	Reeves told the Phill..le..me—york story which waa told by ktstin I~n :~ar~el1.~ You will find it in his etor~v. The only difference between his story and Parnell‘s is that Reeves had the conclusion. He claimed that the

old. ~aater got in a fight with one of the slaves present and yelled out hie identity when he was getting hadly beaten. The story sounds like it C~ from the Arkansa8 folklore collection or from someone who contributed it to

that collection.