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gallery. That ~as back in the days when thére was “no lookin‘ neither to the right nor to the left“ when in çhurch; no matter what happened, no one could even half way smile. This all was much harder than having to listen to the long tiresome sermons

( of those days, Arne thinks, specially when she recalled on. one ~ot

occasion “when ~fr. Sutton wuz a preachin‘ a old goat,~up under the

Church an‘ every time Mr. Sutton would say something out real loud that old goat would go ‘Bah..a—a Bah ba..a-~a‘ an‘ we couldn‘t laugh a bit. I most busted, I wanted ter laugh so bad.“

	“Yassum, in dem days“ continued Aunt Arne, “all u.s colored folks went to the white folks church kase us didn‘t have no churches of our own and day want no colored preachers den, but some what wuz called “Chairbacks“. The Chairback fellows went er round preachin‘ an~ singi.n‘ in the cabins down in the Quarters and dey use ter have the bes‘ ~ folks would be converted

~	an‘ change dey ~ay. De hymns dey sung de most wuz “Amazin‘ ~ ~race“ an‘ “As I Born ter Die?“ I ~ de rneetin‘s us use ~ ter have down in our cabin an‘ how everybody would pray an‘

sing.“ ~

‘~\ “Dey ain‘t nothin‘ lak it use ter be,“ sighed Aunt Arne, TtNow when I first could recollect, when a nigger died they sot up with de corpse all night and de next day had de funeral an‘ when dey started to the burial ground with the body every body in the whole procession would sing hymns. I‘ve heard ‘ein ~nough times clear ‘cross the fields, singin‘ and atoanin‘ as they went, Dem days of real feelin‘ an‘ .keerth‘ is gone.“