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place and she would go and g~ lt. People had passed over dis cave ever so many times, but nobody knowed dese folks wuz livin‘ dar. Our Marster didn‘t know whar she wuz, and it wuz freedom ‘fore she corne ou~ of dat cave for good.

	“Us lived in a long house dat had a flat top and little rooms made like mule stalls, just big enough ±or you to gtt in and sleep . Dey warn‘ t no flo ors in dese rooxn~s and neither no beds. Us made beds out of dry grass, but us had cover ‘cause de real old people, who couldn‘t do nothin‘ else,. made plenty of it. Nobody warn‘t ‘lowed to have fires, and if dey wuz caught wid any dat meant a beatin‘ . So~ae would burn charcoal and take de coals to deir rooms to help warm ‘eni. Every pusson had a tin pan, tin cup ‚ and a spoon. Everybody a‘ t eat at one time, us had ‘bout tour different sets. Nobody had a stove to cook on, everybody cooked on fire places and used skil— lets and pots. To boil us hung pots on racks over de fire and baked bread and meats in de skillets.

	“Marster had a big room right side his house whar his vittals wuz cooked. Den de cook had to carry ‘em upstairs in a tray to be served. When de somethin‘ t‘eat wi~z carried to de dinin‘ room it wuz put on a table and served from dis table. De food warn‘t put on de eatin‘ table~.

	“De slaves went to church wid dey marsters. De preachers always preached to de white Loiks first, den dey would~reaoh to de slaves. Dey never said~othin‘ but yoU~ must be good, don‘t steal, don‘t talk back at your marsters, don‘t run away, don‘t