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Every one would ~o together to different person‘s home on each separate night ofthe week and finish that person‘s quilt&~ !ach n1~ht this was repeated until every one had a sufficient amount of covering for the winter. Any‘ slave from another plantation, desiring to attend these frolics, could do so after securing a pass froiii their master. .

~	... Mrs. Avery related the occasion when ber Uncle William was caught off the Heard plantation ~ii thout a pass ‚ and was whipped almost to death by the ~Pader F~o1lers.“ He stole off to the depths of thw woods here. he built a cave large enou~h to live in. A few nights later he came back to the plantation unobserved and carried his wife and two children back to this cave where they lived until after freedom. ~7hen found years later his wife had. given birth to two children. ~:o one was rer able to find his hiding place and if he saw any one in the woods ~ he ~‘ould run like a lion.

	Mr. Heard was a very xaean master end was not liked by any one of his slaves . Secretly each one hated hiia~ He whipped unmercifully and in niost cases unnecessarily. However, he sometimes fonnd~ it hard to subdue sane slave$ who happened to 1~ve very high tempers. In the event this was the case he would • » set a t,ack of hounds on him. Mrs. Avery related to the writer the stoiy told to her of Mr. Heard‘ s cruelty by her grandmother. The facts were as follows:

“Every morning ray grandmother would pray, and old man heard despised to hear any one pray saying they were only doing so that they might become free niggers. J us t as s ure as the sun would rise ‚ she would get a whipping ; but this did not ston her prayers every morning before day. This particular time grandmother ~ylvia was in “family way“ and that morning she began to pray as usual • The i~aster heard her and. became so angry he cazae to her cabin siezed and pulled her clothes from her body and tied her to a young sapling. He whipped her so