Many‘s a day Itve stood In water up to niy waist pannin‘ ~o1d. In dem days de/vQrked women jest like men. I worked hard, ail‘ young miss took care of ras. When ~ got ready to come home I bought my stage rare ant I oarr~ed ~3OO on me back to my ol‘ mother.

	De trip toQk six weeks. Everywhere de stage would stop young nilss had writ a note to somebody and de stage coach men give it to ‘eni an dey took care of me~-good care.

	When I got home to my mother I found dat ol‘ laiss had give all of ‘en~ sorathint along ‘with settin ‘ein free. My mother had 12 chIldren so she git de mos‘. She git a horse, a milk cow, B killirit hoes and 50 bushels of corne She moved off to a little house on o1~ miss‘s plantation and make a crop on halvers. She stay on der for three-$our year s • Den she move off i nto anoth er cou:ty where she could go to meetin without havin‘to cross de rivers An‘ I stayed on wid her an help her ~arm~~ I coud plow as good as a man in dem days.

	Finally I hear dat you could make racre money in Hot springs, so I come to see. My mother was dead by dat time. De first ye~ iniade a crop for Mr. C1ay-~ ~ my granddaughter cooks and tends to obuidren for some of his folks today. Then I went to town an I ~Vasbed at de Arlington hotel. It wasn‘t de fine place it is today.

~-t v~as gest boards like dis cabin of mine. ~yjt ~ washed at another hote1...---~at was it-—---~down across de creek from de Arlington.