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	“My mother used to tell me how they used to hide behind trees so the boss man c ouldn ‚ t see em when they was prayin‘ and at ni girt put out the 1i~kt and turn the pot down.

	“I went to school in Tennessee. I never will forget it. I bad a white teacher. He was in the War and he had a leg shot off, I went through the s i~th grade and was ready for the seventh Ra‘ s Arithnietic • I walked four miles there and four miles baok~eight miles a day.

	ni can remember too when mymother and father was baptized. I know ine~ua come out of the water a shoutin‘. Oh, that was good times then. I felt better when I was under my mother cause when I married my life was over. I raised about ten children.

	“I remember when the Ku. Klux come to my sister‘s house lookin‘ for her husband. I know I was in the bed and I raised up. I was scared you know.

	“Then I hear some colored folks say they wish the old slavery times was back, I just knows they is lazy. They don‘t want any responsibility.“