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~	paper and burn this, and I don‘t never hear that saiae owl again. Some
	folks say tie knots in the 8beet, but I burn salt.	I think the beflow..
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ing or lowing ot cows and oxen or the bleating of sheep is a bad. omen. Then Uncle David took me way back in the Bible and recited how the king was commended to slay all the cattle and. everything and they kept out some of the oxen and sheep. ‘~ I believe you shouid turii a clock face to the wall when a person dies. I believe in signs, yes maint ~ ~ ~ Marster was good to his . niggers ‚ but they had to have a pass to leave the plantation. There were patrolers to look after the ~laves and see that they did not run around without a pass. ID they found one without a pass ‚ he was strapped then and there by the patrolers. Of course I was too young in those days to run around at night, and my mother always had us in bed early. It was long after the war that I did my courting. I was to have married a girl before I went to Atlanta ~ 80‘s, but she~j~,.)I later married a Yankee nigger ~n Xtianta. sue belonged to the ~OO, and some how, she never could ~et used to me and my plain ways • We had four children ‚ three boys and one girl. Two of the boys diet, and I have living today, one daughter married and living in Washington, D.C. and my son and his fanilly live in Alabama.

	~ ‚ My Marster did not go to the war ‚ but we all worked at home preparing food and clothes and other things for those who did go. Some of the sires went as helpers M~ digging ditches and doing manual
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labor. The Yankee soldiers visited our territory, killing everything in sight. They were actually most starved to death. Mareter was all broken after the war • He had planned to buy another plantation ‚ and increase his holdings ‚ but the war sorter left us all like the yellow fever had struck.

After a number of years ‚ in Mission work and in th• ministry I