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In the quarters for the coloreM sick. One of the alave3 namad. Charity ha~ been slok a long time, just wasting away. One beautiful spring morning they cerne running tor my mother saying that Charity was dying . I was a very ~nall child ‚ and ran after my mother to Charity‘s house. It was a very harrowing experience to me, as it required three women to hold Charity on the bed while she was dying. I becan~e so frightened, I slipped into unoonsolousness . They took me home ‚ end after hours went by I still was un001180 ious ‚ and Marster became so alarmed about me that they s‘wt tor Dr . Cogburn . He said that it was a thousind wonders . that I ever caine back, but he gave me some medicine and brought me around. About a year later ‚ my hair turned white ‚ and it has been white ever since • They used to gather herbs end one thing and another from the woods for simple maladies ‚ but Marster always aen~ for the doctor when things looked serious to him.

~	In 1863 ‚ Miss Elizabeth was going to have big company at her house ‚ ~ she was saving her strawberries for the oc cas ion • I spied all these nice, ripe strawberries through the paling fenoo, and the whole crowd of‘ iia little niggers thought they needed pickIng. WI found an opening on the lower side of the fence and made our way in, destroying all of those luscious ripe strawberries. When we had about finished the job, Mistress saw us, and hollered at us. Did we scatt.rt In the jam for the fence ~ls I was the last one to get through and Mistress had gotten there by th&t time and had me by the collar • She took me back to the house ‚ got the cow hide down ‚ and ooianenoed rubbing it over ~ • Before she got through,she cut ~ ail to pieces. I still have signs of those whelpa on me today. In t~. fight I managed to bits her on the

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