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\	giad en‘ SUN WUZ SOrry, dey all wuz at a wonder - at de row‘s

)	t ‚ didn ‘t . ~xiow w~iar ter go • iJo isost ot ‚ em stayed on lak we

L~~! ‚ workin ‚ ter our white folks • Dat ‚ s what ay Pa an‘ Ma done, dey stayed on ter sometime after de war.“ Wheeler tells about ~~ew Yankees eomi ng through the country after the war:

fl~~niggers wuz ai]. t feared of ‚ e~ an‘ we run trum ‘em, but dey I didn‘t do nothin~‘ to nobody. I dunno what dey curn er ‘round \dowx1~ere fer . „

	Wheeler said he “nuver paid signs no sind - nnver paid no

‘tention to ail de~ ‘stitions an‘ sich lak.“ 11e dIdn‘t have any superstitions to tell only h. did hear “et a screech owl fly

‘cross 70‘ do‘ hits er sign of a death in dat houas, an‘ et a whippowill salis at de‘ do‘ hit‘s er sign of death. Dat‘s what folks say, I don‘t know nothin‘ ‘bout hit.“

1~ ~ “I‘m glad I knowed slavery, I had er bÔtte1~ livia!~ in da ~ days dan I ei~ez‘ iia~ since • No talk ‚ bout ~ in de~ day. - no

~ a doctor wuz needed he wuz right dar. I‘ae livin‘ ter day ‘kase I got sich a good start, an‘ den too, I‘ae livin‘ on de days of my Pa and Ma. Dey waz good folks an‘ livet ter be old. £n‘ den too, I‘ae allus lived on a fare, ain‘t nu~er knowed no t‘ other kind of life ‚ an‘ dat‘s de Isaithiest and.

freest way ter live.“

	And, ~ybe, this gray old son of tI~ soil is right who knows?