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“My mother and father had nine children. I have only one Buter living,

ill	the others doue gone to heaven but me and her,

“My mother and father lived in a log cabin. They had one-legged bedi

nailed to the wall. They had benches and boxes arid blocks and all sieh as

that :L~or chairs. My daddy made the table we used. He made them one-.legged beds too. They kept the food in boxes and gourds, They had these big

gourds. They could cut holes in the top o~ them and put things in them. My

rnelffny had a lot of ~ ~ ~ they were nice and cle~i too. Wiaht I had one of them now.

	“Some folks didn‘t have that good. We had trundle beds for the children that would run under the big bed when they wasn‘t sleeping in it. We made a straw mattress, You know the white folks weren‘t goin‘ to let ‘em use

cotton, and they didn‘ t have no chickens to git feathers from; so they had to use straw. Oh, they had a hard time l‘in tellin‘ you. My mother pulled greens out of the garden and field, and cured it up for the mattress.

	“For rations, we‘d eat onions and. vegetables. We et what was raised. You know they didn‘t have nothin‘ then ‘cept what they raised. All the cookin‘ was done at one house, but there was two cooks, one for the colored folks and one for the white folks. My grandma cooked for the white people, They cooked in those big old waslipots for the colored people. We all thought we had a pretty good master,

	“We didn‘t kiiow nothin‘ about a master.

	“I am‘ t positive what time the hands ate breakfast • I know they et it and I know they et at the s~e time and place. I think they et after sun~ rise ~ They didn ‚ t have to eat before swirl se.

	“When they fed the children, they cook the food and put it in a great big old tray concern and called up the children, ‘Plggee-e-e-e-e, piggee—e—e.-e...e.‘