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	“They kept ~ hounds. Colonel Radford ‚ s boys and the e olored boys ail went hunting. We had ‘possum and potatoes all alone in winter; ‘possum greasa ~~on‘t make you sick. ~at all you want. I‘d hear their horn and the do~s~ They would come in hungry every time. I never seen no whiskey. He had his eider and vinegar press and made wine. We had cider and wine all aTLong~ Colonel Radford was his own overseer and Charlie his oldest boy. They whooped mighty little. They would stand up and be whooped. Some of th~3 3rOUfl~ ones was hard-.theaded and rude • He advised them and they minded him p:etty well.

	“Our yards was large arid beautiful; s~ae had grass and some clean spots about in the shade. Friday was wash day. Saturday was iron day. hiss Betty would go about in the quarters to see if the houses was scrubbed every week after washing, They had to wear clean clothes and have clean beds about her place, She‘ d shame them to death.

	“Colonel Radford had a colored church for us all, It was a log house

and he had a office for his boys to read and write and smoke cob pipes in, r~ ‘~ihite folks‘ church was at the corner of his place, I went there most.


:ri~ey	shouted and pat their hands, Colonel Radford was a Baptist, ~‘Nearly every farm had a fiddler, ~ver so often he had a b1~ dance in

t:ieir p~r~or. I‘d. try to dance by myself. He had his own music by the b~i~d~ Ofl his place. He let them have dances at the quarters every now and 1;j~~fl~ Dancing was a piece of his religion.

	“I don‘t think our everyday frocks was stiffened but our dress up cLothes was, It was made out of f1our-~boiled flour starch. We had striped ~re~ses and stockings too. We had checked dresses. We had goobers and a (~Lestnut grove. ~e had a huckleberry patch. We had maple sugar to eat0