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old mistress bad all the children pick up sealey bark8 and hickory nuts and chestnuts and walnuts. She put them in barrels. She sold some of them. She had a heap of sugar taaple trees. They put an elder tunnel to nui the sap in buckets. We carried that and she boiled it dowii to brown sugar. She had up pick up chips to burn when ~he simmered it down or made soap. She kept all the children hunting ginsing up in the mountains. She kept it in sacks. A man corne by and buy it. We hunted chenqupins down in the swamps. There was lots o±~ walnut trees in the woods.

	No the slaves didn‘t leave Colonel Williams. He left them. He brought me and ~d and we went back and moved to the old Williams farm on Arkansas River close to Little Rock. Then he sent for my folks. They come in wagons. They worked for him a long time and. scattered about. I stayed at his house till he said “ilenry, you are grown; you better look out for yourself now.“ ~d was gone. He sent all the girls off to school and ~d too. They taught me if I wanted to learn but I didn‘t care much about it. I went to the colored school and Ed to the white school. He learned pretty well. I never did like to ‘sociate or stay ‘bout colored folks and I didn‘t like to mind ‘em. Old mistress show did brush me out sometimes and they called. my mother to tend to rae. Then I was real little they drove the hands to the block to be sold out alone the road. Old mistress say: „ ir you don ‚ t be good and mind w‘ 11 send yare off and sell you wid ‘em.“ That scared nie worse than a whooping. Never did see anybody sold. Uee~rd theza talk a heap about it. Ihen one of them wouldn‘t work and lay out in the woods, or they wouldn‘t mind