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have to whisper. ~rse Joe had done been kilt in de war by a bomb. Mist‘ess, she jus‘ cried and cried. She didn‘t want us to leave her, so us stayed on wid her a long time, den us went off to Mississippi to vîuk on de railroad.

	“Dem Yankees stole evvything in sight when dey come along atter de surrender. Dey was had ‘b~out takin‘ our good hosses and corn, what was ~i6 a bushel den. Dey even stole our beehives and tuk tern off wropt up in quilts.

	“My freedom was brought ~ bout hy a fight dat wa~ fit ‚ twixt tVjrO men, and I didn‘t fight nary a lick myself. 1(r.Jefferson Davis thought he was gwine beat, but Mr. Lincoln he done de winnin‘. When

~. Abraham Lincoln come to dis passage in de Bible: ‘May SOfl~ there-S. fore shall ye be free indeed,‘ he went to wuk to sot us free. 1-le was a great man Mr. Lincoln was. Booker Washin‘ton come ‘long later. lie was a great roan too.

	“De fust school I went to was de Miller O. Field place. Cam King, de teacher, was a Injun and evvywhar he went he tuk his flute ‚ long wid him.

	“Me and my fust wife, Essie Lou Sutton, had a grand weddin‘, but de white folks tuk her off wid ‘em, and I got me a second wife.

•~he was Julia Goulder of Putman County. Us didn‘ t have no big dom‘ s at my second marriage. Our onliest two chillun died whilst dey was
stiLl babies.“	~

	~tsked about charms, ghosts and other superstitions, he ~~atted himself on the chest, and boasted: „~ charm is in here. I just dare any witches and ghosties to git atter me. I can see ghosties any time I want to.
“Want me to tell you what haj~pened to me in Gainesville,