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‘•jfld I‘•iri a-teliln‘ you de truth wken Isayshe had more sen~e ~an a heap of white ehillun has when dey ia,~.ot~s older dan she 7!~:1s. ~1hi1st I was off in NewS York wid Miss Ruth, I~ajo~, he up :n~ got married. I reckon he‘s daid by now. I don‘t keér no-. :~ow, atter de way he done me. I ruade a good Ilvin‘ for Major ‘tu he married again. I seed. de ‘oman he married once.

	“Yes L~iam,“ there was strong emphasis In this re~.1y. “I sho would ruther have slavery days back if I could have rr::,J saine good Marsters ‘cause I néver had no hard times den lak I ::ent through atter dey give us freedom. I ain‘t . never got over
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r~t bein‘ able to see Marse Alec no more. I was livin‘ at Marse

~ye Elder‘s when de gate fell on Marse Alec, and he was crI~]~d ~::rià lamed up from dat tinie on ‘tu he died.. He got to. beŒovern
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or of Georgia vthiist he was crippled. When he got hurt b~ dat :~ate, smallpox was eirvywhar and dey wouldn‘t. let me go ~ s~à ‘h~ut him. Dat most killed me ‘cause I did want to go see lt lere wes sornepin‘ I COUld do for hl~.

*Lordy Mus sy ‚ Mi sa ~ ~ I had e. time j ix.i‘ up wid.

lechuroh. I was In Mailpack, £~ew York, wid Miss Ruth when I had ~.e urge to j‘ine up. I told Miss Ruth ‘bout it and she said:

‘i)ere ain‘t no Baptist church in 10 in.iles of here.‘ ‘Lord, nave :USS7~‘ I said. ‘Miss Ruth, what I gwine do? Dese is all ~ethodist churches up here and I j‘ an‘ t jine up wid . no Metlib~ists. ‚ ‘Yes you can, ‚ she snapped at m.e ‚ ‘cause my own Pa‘s