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	away from Ma when I was still a baby. M&‘SjOb was to weave all

.	de cloth for de white folks. I have wore many a dress made out of de homespun what she wove. ~ere was 17 of us chillun, and I can‘t ‘rriember de names of but two of ‘em now‘ - dey was J~ohn and Sarah. John was Ma‘s onliest son; all de rest of de other 16 of us was gals.

	“Us lived in mud-daubed log cabins what had old stack chimblies made out of sticks and mud. Our old hoxne~inade beds didn‘t itave no slats or metal springs neither. Dey used stout cords for springs. i)e cloth what dey made the ticks‘ of dem old hay mattress— es and pillows out of was so coarse dat it scratched us little chillun r1~)St to death, it spenied lak to us dem days. I kin still feel dem old hay ~‘iattresses under me now. Lvvy time I moved at night it sounded Isk de wind blowin‘ through dem peachtrees and bamboos ‘round de front öf de house whar I lives now.

	“Grandma Anna was 115 years old ‘~‘then she died. She L~ci done wore herself out in slavery tithe. Grandpa, he was sold off
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	33:~ewhar. Both of ‘em was field hands.

“Potlicker end cornbread was fed to us chillun,
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r~~t ~)f big old wooden bowls. T~ Or three chillun et out of de

sarie bowl, ~ had meat, greens, syrup, cornbread, ‘taters ~r~:-de lak. ~L!~!s~s.~ I should say so. ‚ Dey catch plenty of ‘em

	•md stter dey was kilt ~a would ~cald ‘em and rub ‘em in hot ashes and ~ clean‘t ‘em jus‘ as pretty and white. 00-o-o but dey was good. ~crd, Yessum~‘Dey used to go fishin‘ and rabbit huntin‘ too. Us jus‘ fotcned. in game galore.den, for it was de style dem days. ~~ere warn‘t