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	.	. ‘~Most of de time I wa~ u~p at de big house waitin‘ on our white folks, huntin‘ eggs, p~C•kifl‘ up chips, rnakin‘ fires, and little jobs lak dat. De onUest way I could find to make any money in dem .iays vrac to sell part‘idges what I cotc~hed in traps to dem Yankees what was allus passin‘ ‘round. Dey paid me ten cents apiece for partt idge s and I might have save d more of my mone y if I hadn‘ t lbved dat store boughten ‚pep‘rnint candy so good. ~

	“What I et? Anything I could git. Peas, green corn, ‘tatoes, cornbread, im~at andI~ hominy was~ what dey give us more dan anything else . Bakin‘ was done in big old ovens what helt three pones of bread and in skillets ~iïhat helt two. Big pots for bum‘ was swung over de coals in de fireplace. Dey was hung on hooks fastened to de chimbly or on cranes what could be swung off de fire when dey wanted to dish u.p de victuals. Hit warn‘ t nothin‘ for us to ::e tch five or six ~ possui~s in one night‘ s huntin‘ • De be et way to tote ‘possums is to split a stick and run deir tails tho& de crack

-	den fling de stick crost your shoulders and tote de ‘~OssUms ‘long safe and sound. Dat way dey can‘t bite you. J~y‘s bad ‘bout gnawin‘ out of sacks. When us went giggin‘ at night1 us most allas fotch~d back a heap of fishes and frogs. Dere was allus plenty of fishes and rabbits. Our good old hound dog was jus‘ ‘oout as good at traum‘ rabbits in de daytime as he was at treain‘ tpossums at night. I was young and spry, andit didn‘t seem to make no diff‘ unce what I et dem days. -Big gyardens was scattered over de place whar-some-ever Marster happened to ~ick out a good gyarden spot. Dem gyardens all b‘longed to our Marster, but he fed. us allus wanted out of ‘em.