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Dey kilt his chickens, hogs, and cows and tuk his hosses off and gold ‘em. Dat didn‘t loök right, did it?

	~	“My .annt give us a big weddin‘ feast when I married Torn Adams ‚ and she sho‘ did pile up dat table wid heaps of good eatraents. Myweddin‘ dress was blue, .trinimed in white. Us had six chillun, nine grandohillun, and 19 great~grandchi1lun. One of my grandehillun is done been blind since he was three weeks

Old. I sonthim Off to de blind school and now he kin git aro~nd, ‘riost as good as I kin. 11e has made his home wid me ever since hi~

~:a:rriy died.

“‘Cordin‘ to my way of thinkin‘, Abraham Lincoln
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done a good thing when he sot us free. J~eff Davis, he was all right
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tDo, ‘cause if hirn and Lincoln hadn‘t got to fightin‘ us would have been slaves to dis very day. It‘s mighty good to do jus‘ as you plcase, and bread and water is heaps better dan dat soxn~ep1n t‘eat us hed to slave for.

	~	“I jined up wid dechureh ‘cause I wanted to go to £~eben when I dies, and if folks lives right dey sho‘ Is gwine to have a good restin‘ place in de next world. Yes Main, I sho b‘lieves‘ in ‘ligion, dat 1 does; Now, ~iss, if you ain‘t got nothin‘ ~1se to ax nie, I‘se gwine home and givedat b1ixid.~boy his soinepin
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