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You can go on my place or hunt other p.‘ They sent on his place and they lived there a lone time. I c3.on‘~ remember ever living ou that place. Pa wasn‘t there then. I don‘t kno‘g~ where he could been. Ma and pa Was both ~iJ~kers but no blood kiii, Ma didn‘t talk mu~ch about old t1n~aa, She waa sold once ‚ she said. BESS K811~‘ bought her. I don‘ t know i~ Will Walker traded for her, She never did. say. Bass Kelly was mean to her. Ue beat her and one time she hid and. kept hid. till she nearly starved, she said~, She hid in the corn crib. It was a log house. &e~did~t enjoy slavery, Pa had a very good. time, better than us boys had it when we cœae up, He worked and kept us with him. He and. ma died the sanie week. They had

irneunionia in Mississippi.

	“I got one sister. She lives close to ~reveport. ~e keeps up With us all • I go down there every now aad then. 8h‘ s not stove up like I am. She wants me to stay with her all the time. I gets work down there aasier but I have the rheuinati~ bad. down there.

	“I don‘ t know what will become of young folks. I wish I had their chance • They can‘ t wait for nothing. They in too big a hurry tor the crop to grow, ~sy living by the day. When the year gone they ain‘t no better off. Times is good in places. Hard in places, Times better in. Louisiana than up here. Work easier to get. ?olka got raore living, S

	‘PI tfll chopping cotton on Mr. Hi‘ s place • I gets ziinety cents a day. I can ‚ t get over the ground fast.“