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wou1d~‘t take you down. Solnetlme8 a man would help his wife, but most times he wuz beat afterwards.
~	marster I had kept a ho~shead to whup you on.

Dis hogshead had two or three hoops ‘round it. lie buckled you lace down on de hogshead and whupped you ‘tu you bled. i~verybody always stripped you in deni days to whup you, ‘cause dey didn‘t keer who seed you naked. Some folks‘ ohillun took sticks and jobbed (jabbed) you all while you wuz bein‘ beat. Sometimes dese ohillun would beat you all ‚ cross your head ‚ • and dey Mas and Pas didn‘t know what stop wuz.
	“j~other way marster had to whup us wuz in a stock dat

he had in de stables. Dis wuz whar he whupped you when he wuz real mad. lie had logs fixed together wld holes tor your feet, hands, and head. lie had a way to open dese lois and fasten you

in. Den he had his coachman give you so many lashes, and he would let you stay in de stock for so many days and nights. Dat‘s why he had it In de stable so it wouldn‘t rain on you. ~veryday you got dat same number o f lashes . You never come out able to sit down.

	“I had a cousin wiã two ohillun. De oldest one had to fluss one of marster‘s ~randohildren. De front steps wuz real high, and one day dis pore chile fell down dose steps wid de baby. lus wife and daughter hollered arid went on turrible, and when our marster come home dey wuz still hollerin‘ Just lak de baby wuz dead or dyin‘. When dey told him ‘bout it, he picked up a board