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My COUSi~~ was the one had to go out an.d call the children; and. you could ~ee them ilIflfllfl‘ U~ from every which way, little shirt tails flyin‘ and hair stjcklflg out. Then they would pour the food out in different vessels till the children could git around them with those ~usole—shell spoons. Many of thera as could get ‚ round a vessel would eat out of it and when they fini shed that one ‚ they ‚ d go to another one ‚ and then to another one till they all got fed,

	“My master worked seventy hands they said. He had two colored over~ seers and one white one. He didn‘t allow them overseers to whip and slash them niggera0 They had to whip them right. Didn‘t allow no pateroles to bother them nei ther. That ‚ s a lot of help ~ ‚ Cause them pateroles would eat you up. It was awful. Niggers used to run away to keep from bein‘ beat up.

	“I knowed one gal that ran away in the winter time and she went up into the hollow of a tree for protection. When she carne in., she was in sich a bad condition they had to cut off both her legs. They had froze out there~ They taken care of her. They wanted her to work0 She was just as nice a seamstress as you ever saw. And she could do lots of things. She could get about some. She could go on her kn.ees~ She had some pads for them and was just about as high as your waist when she was goin‘ along on her hands and knees, swinging her body between her arms~


Ate im the Big House

	t?The cooks and my mother stayed in the white folks‘ yard. They weren‘ t in the quarters, ~y mother was seamstress and she was right in the house all the day long sewing. The children like me and my

~	Sister, they used us ‘round the house and yard for whatever we could do.