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playing marbles ‚ hunting and fi ahing With the litt1~ Gresham

boys. I~e never has had a punishment of any kind in all hie who le lone lite ‚ and said with much prid.e - An‘ I ala‘ t never been in no court scrape ~~her.rNo t~, my Marsters &td.n‘ t ‚ low nobody ter ‚ buke dey han ‚ a • Et a ove raser got rough an‘

~	wanted to tmat a nigger, he had to go right den and dar.“ ~e

~: ~ : “Den overseer fe flows wuz rough. anyhow, dey warn‘ t our

J sort of folks • An ‚ de owners what wuz mean to dey niggers
: ~ looked down on by t spectable white fOlks lak ‚ dem what I

~elonged to. „

	“ill us little niggers on the Booker plantation et in de white folks‘ kitchen, a big old kitchen out In d.e yard. i De grown slaves cooked and et in dey cabins, but our Nistesa wouldn‘t trust ‘em to teed de little ones. My Grei~na wuz de cook an‘ we had plenty of good victuals, we‘d all ait er round an‘ eat ail we wanted three times er day.“

	Wheeler said that the Doctor who lived near by was always called in when the negroes were sick and they had the best ot care ; their owners saw to that • Of course the i‘s wars simple home remedies like muflein tea for colds, Jerusalem Oak seed crushed up and mixed With Syntp, given to them in the Springtime, and always that terrible “garlic waiter“ they so despised to take.
When death salie the slave was buried~ on the plantation in