~‘ege 10.	: 47


dance down. Dere warn‘t no foolishment ‘lowed atter 10:00 o‘~1OCk no night. Sundays dey went to church and visited ‘round, but folks didn‘t spend as much time gaddin‘ ‘bout lak dey does now deys.

“Christmas Days Oh, what a time us Niggers did
.	~_‚L~iII~L~  ~


nave dat dayl Marse Lordnorth and Marse Alec give us evvy~

t~iing you couldname to eat:eake of all kinds, fresh meat, lightbread, turkeys, chickens, ducks, geese, arid all kinds of
~r~idganie.	Dere was allus	~fecans,a~~~es,anddried

reaches too at L~hristmas. Marse Alec had some trees what had fruit dat looked lak bananas on ‘era, but I done forgot what was de n~t~ie of dem. trees. Marse Alec would call de grown folkees to de big house early in de mornin‘ and pass‘‘round a big newter pitcher full of ~th~iskey, den he would put a little whis~:ey in dat same pitoher and fill it wid sweetened watér and give flit to US chillun. Us called ~t ‘4oddy‘ or ‘dram‘s Marse alex allus had plenty of good whiskey, ‘cause tTncle ~illis made It: ~ for him and it was made jus‘ right. De night atter ~hristm~s Da~ us pulled syrup candy, drunk more liquor, and.

th~nced. ija t~ad a big time for a whole week and den on New t~~r‘s Day us‘done a little wuk jus‘ to start de year right and

~i:~ reasted dat day on fresh meat, plenty of cake, and whiskey.~ Jere WElS elius a big pile of ash-~roasted ‘taters on hand to go wid ~h~t good old baked meat. ~ Us ~ t‘:~ lest all ~ ‘cause Niggers ciao does love dein.
~ ~



~~eet ‘taters. No Mam, us neverknowed nothin‘ ‘bout ~ianta