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no market meat In siav~ery dayr. ~ Seemed ~aic to ~e. in~ ~ew 4aï~s ~t ash-roasted ‘taters ai~ groundpeaswaa c~e bes~ som,pii~t‘ea~t what
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anybody could want .~ ‚ Course dey. had a gyarden., au~ it îi~ ~

of jus ‚ about evvything What. us knowed anything ‘bout in de way of gyarden sass growin‘ In it.. Ail de cookin‘ was done: ji~ ~ ~ig~~o~d
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open fireplaces what wasfixed up special for de pots and ovens. Ashcake was most as good as ~ taters cooked in de ashe s ‚ but . not quite.

	“Summertime, us jus‘ viore homespunth~‘esses made~ lak de ~ dey use for underwear now. De eoatsvthat u~wore over our wool dresses In winter was knowed as ‘sacques‘ den, ~‘cause 4ey was so loose fittln‘. Dey was heavy and had wool in ‘em too. ~

Lewis, he had a plenty of ~heep, ‘cause deywaa bound to have ~iots of wa~~~1o~es, arid dentoo, dey iakkedmut t~on~to~eat. ~h$~4~rn~ old brogan shoes was coarse and rough. When karse ~ewis had a cow kilt dey put de hide in de tannin‘ vat. When de ~iikes was ready, Uncle Ben ruade up d.e shoes, and sornetixaes dey let Uncle Jasper hoip
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him if dere was many to be made all at one time. Us wore te same

sort of clothes dn Sunday as ev~yday, only. dey had to be . clean~ and fresh wh en dey was put on Sunday mi‘ . . ~ . .

. ~	“Marse LewIs Little and his wife, Miss ~aliie,
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o~rTned us, and Old Miss, she died long ‘fore de surrender. Marse Lewis,
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he was right good to all his slaves; but dat overseer, he would_~beat
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~ a minute if us. didn‘t do to suit him. When dey give slaves tasks to do and dey warn‘t done in a certain time, dat ~