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	-‘9— wriat, causing her to aIi~ost bleed ~o death. I tIUaIIy got away

and ran to a hiding place ot~s~~j~tey used eoot and other things trying to atop the blsdlng. ~When Marster come hoi~ie he saw Miss Elizabeth wIth her hand ail bandaged up ‚ and wanted to know what the trouble was ~ He was told the story ‚ so he came out to look tor m. He called me out from my hlIlng place, end when he saw me with those awful wheips on ms ‚ and how pitiful looking I was, he said, Ellzabeth, you done ruint my little nigger, David.“ ~I wouldn‘t have him In this fix for ail the strawberries.“ I was very fond of strawberries In those days, but that experience put an end forever to nay taste for them. So much for the strawberry buainess~
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	Even a dog kind treatment • Soene days Mistress was good and kind to us little niggers ‚ and she would save us the cold biscuits to give us when we brought in the eggs • Son~tiiae ‚ she ~uld go two or three days without giving us any biscuits then she didn‘t get no eggs • We rascals would get up the e g~ and go ‚ off and have a rock battle with thea. Every effect has a cause- then Miss would wonder why she didn‘t get any eggs and call us aU in for cold biscuits, then the eggs would come again . Of course we had our gene of “tell“. ir one ot the gang threatened to tell ‚ then we ail would threaten to tell afl~ we knew on him, and somehow we ~ienaged to get by with lt all.

	After the war1 my father stayed on with Marster Mappin as a cropper running a two horse fana for hiiase]! • In the early 70 ‚ s my father bought 12 acres of land troin ~Tudge Lawson near ~atonton, which was later sold in lots to different colored people, end became known as Gullinaville ‚ and is stiU‘!~,aUed b~M-n~e by some.

	In 1876 ‚ 26 day of November ‚ I left my folks and came to Mil~-‘ edgeville to liv.. I worked for Mr. Miller 8. Bell in t,h, livery