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	“One day when it was freezing cold, she wanted mother to Btand out in the hail with Salue and Clara and wash the glasses in boiling hot water0 She was making her do that because she thought she was ixppity and she wanted to punish her ~ When mother went out ‚ she rattled the dishe e ‚ round in the pan and broke them0 They was all glasse s ~ ~js ‚ Candle heard them breaking and come out to see about it. She wanted to whip mother but 8he was ‘fraid to do it while she was alöne; so she waited till her husband come home1, When he come she told him. He said she oughtu ‚ t to have sent them out in the cold to wash the glasses because nobody could wash dishes outside in that cold weather0

	NThe first morning she was at Mis‘ Candle‘s, they called her to eat


and they didn‘ t have nothing but black molasse s and corn bread for mother‘ s meal. The other two ate it but mother didn‘t, She asked for something eises She said she wasn‘t used to eating that-~that she ate what her master and mistress ate at home.

	“MIs‘ Candle didn‘t like that to begin with~ She told my mother that she was a smart nigger. She told mother to do one thing and then before she could do it, she would tell her do something else, Mother would just go on doing the first thing till she finished that, and Mis‘ Candle would git mad, But it wasn‘t nobody‘s ta~ilt but her own.

	“She asked mother to go out and git water from the spring on a rainy day. Mother wouldn‘t go. Finally mother got tired and went back home. Her mistre ss heard what she had to tell her about the place ‘ d been working, Then she said mother did right to quit. She had worked there f~or three or rour montha~ They meant to keep her but she wouldn‘t stay. Mis‘ Hickman went over and collected her money,