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‚ ~ msntiy an dat when ~ne BUtts aus ha‘ tarn te Tag, hA
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call all his niggsra tergeddar en tell ‘es t‘y is fres~ en Loan

b‘tœig ter nobody no mo‘. Ifs say dat any uf ‘um dat want ta, kin go ‘way and live flar dey lets, en do lak dey vanter. H~scme ebber, be do say eff~n enybody wants ter stay dL hin, a live right On in de same cabins, day kin do it, effen dey promise him terbe good niggers en mine him l~ dey allus done.‘

.	loat a11 de niggers stayed wid Macse Billie, ‘esppen two er thee brash, go~i f~er r4uthin‘s.
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	$tariSinŒ tt‘ere in the oqmetery, as t listened to old tmtalirz~ tell of the old days, I could see cotton being loaded on freight cars at the depots I asked Thmline to tell !hat ehe could remem— ber of the days when we had no railroad to hwal the cotton to aaxtet.

	‘feU,‘ she said, ‘Pore dis byar railroad wus made, dey heulefi de cotton ter de Pint (She meant Union Point) en sold it or. a. Pint‘ s 4es‘ ‘bout twelve miles fùm hyar. Po‘ dey had er railros* thu de Pint, Marss Billie used ter haul his cotton clear down ter bolt ter sell it. Ny manny say dat long to‘ de Tar he used ter wait twel all de ootton wuz jicked in de fall, en den he would bave it ~ll loaded on his w~~jns. fll~g tot sundoen he wud start de waggins off, wid yo‘ tinker Andersoet bossin‘ em, on de aU night long ride towards tools. ‘Bout to‘ in de mawnin‘ flrs. Billie en yb~ graraw, riss Margie, ‘ud start off in dé surrey, driving de bays, en fo‘ dem waggins git tar bols Marie Billie date coteh u~ wid em. drive er head en lead em œ ter de cotton mill‘ in bols, rhar he siJi all his cotton. Den him en riss Margie, dey go ter de mill eta‘ en
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