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she‘s Jus‘ as bad. ‘bout ‘ein as I is, ‘specially ‘bout dat sort of cookin‘; somepin t‘eat cooked in dat old black pot is sho good.

	“M3rse Gerald Sharp and. his wife, Miss ~nnie, owned us and, Child, dey was grand folks. Deir old home was ‘way up in J~aokson County ‘twixt Athens and Tefferson. Dat big old plantation run plumb back down to de Oconee River. Yes, mam, all dem rich river bottoms was Marse Gerald‘s.

	“Märnrny‘s naine was Ca‘lthe and she b‘longed to Marse Gerald, but Marse Eatton David owned my daddy - his .name was Phineas. De David place warn‘t but ‘bout a mile from our plantation and daddywas ‘lowed to stay wid. his fambly most evvy night; he was allus wid us on Sundays. Marse Gerald didn‘t have no slaves but my mammy and her ohillun, and he was sho mighty good to us~

	“Marse Gerald had a nice four-room house wid a hall all de way through it. It even had two big old fireplaces on one chimbly. No, niam, it warn‘t a rock chimbly; dat chimbly was made out of home-made bricks. Marster‘s fambly had deir cookin‘ done in a open fireplace lak evvybody else for a long time Sand den jus‘ ‘fore de big war he• bought a stove. Yes, main, Marse Gerald bought a cook stove and us felt plumb rich ‘cause derewarn‘t many folks dat had stoves back in dem days.