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“Emma and Betty went to school at • Riobmond in a buggy. They had a

colored boy driver. He was the carriage driver, Emma and Betty would play with irie too . Miss Betty fed me all the t line, She made me a bonnet and. I can‘t ~et shed of my bonnet yet. I got four bonnets now,

“When the white folks had a wedding it lasted a week. They had. a

second day dresa and a third day dress and had suppers and dinner recep— tions about among the kin. folks, They had big chests full of quilts and coverlets and counterpanes they been packing back, Some of them would have big dances. A wedding would last a week, ni~t and day.

“They had a fana right. We had peacocks, white guinea and bi~ black

tur:~eys, cows, sheep, goats, hogs; he had deer. He kept their horns cut off

and some of the cow‘s horns were off4 We had a acre in a garden and had roses and all kinds of flowers, I like flowers now. Tries to have ‘em, Th‘~:r bad a gin on the place. He raised corn, rye, cotton, and tobacco, The hands ~ot their sapplies on. Saturday. On rainy days ai]. the women would knIt, white and colored both. Miss Betty knitted sane at night in winter.

Th~~ had a shop to sharpen and keep all the tools in, A particular old man i~de the brooms and rakes,

	“It seera like there wasn‘t so many flies. Miss Betty mixed up molasses

and flour and poison end killed flies sometimes. She spread it on brown pa‘)er~ We had fly weed tea to set about too sometimes. We didn‘t have to

use anything regular, We didn‘ t have no screens, We had mighty few r~LO~~Uitoes. We had peafowl fly brushes. They was mighty pretty.

	“One thing we had was a deep walled well and an ice-house. They cut ice in blocks and put it UP for wint~r~“We had one sPring on the place I

know,