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	~ saw the. Yankees coming. They never itopped for nothing. Their horses would jui~ip the woim rail fences aixi theytd come right across the fiePs an‘ everything. ~


	“They caine to the house first a~ boundour Missus up stairs so she oouldn‘ t get away, then they oan~ out. to the sheds ar~1 asked us ail kind of questions.

“we begged for OUT ~1SSUS and we say:

‘Qir I~i1ssus is good. Don‘t kil hert

tI~nt take our meat away fromust
		.	‘t»nt hurt our rissust
	.		‘Dont burn the house downt


	~e begged so hard that they unloosened her, but they took some of the others for refugees and. some of the slaves volunteered ar~ went off with them.


	“They took potatoes and all the hams theywanted, but they left our fils sus ‚~ ‚ C aus e ~ save her life . . ~


	~The Uncle what I libb ed wi th, ~ he was awful fu.ll of all kinds of devilment. He stole sweet taters out of the bank. He oalled them~. “t~ot~ 1~Otß ~ and sometimes he called them “blow horts“. You know they would blow up• big and fat when they were roasted 1n the ashes.


	“My uncle, he liked those blow hort~ mi~,hty well, and one day, when he had some baked in the fire~1ace, OLe MassY Hoover, he canas along and peeked in through the “hold“ in de chirnley wall, where the stones didn‘t fit
	too good.	. ~	~