“Mammy lived in de old kitchen close by de bi~ house ‘tU dere got to be too many ot us den Marse Gerald built us a house jus‘ a little pieceoff trom de big house. It was jus‘ a log house, but Marster had all dem cracks chinked tight wid red mud, and he even had one or dem tranklin~baek ohimblies built to keep our little cabin nice and warm. Why, Child, ain‘t you never seed none of dem old chimblies? Deir backs sloped out in de middle to throw out de heat into de room and keep too much of it from gwine straight up de flue. Our beds in our cabin was corded jus‘ lak dem up at de big house, but us slept on straw ticks and, let me tell you, dey sho slept good atter a hard days‘s wuk.

	“De bestest water dat ever was come front a spring right nigh our cabin and us had long~handled gourds to drink it out of. Some of dein. gourds hung by de spring all de time and dere was allus one or two of ‘em hangin‘ by de side of our old cedar waterbucket. Sho‘, us had a cedar bucket and it had brass hoops on it; dat was some job to keep dem hoops scrubbed wid sand to make ‘em bright and shiny, and dey had to be clean and pretty all de time or mammy would git right in behind us wid a switch. ~arse Gerald raised all dem longhandled gourds dat us used ‘stid of de tin dippers folks h~s now, but dem warn‘t de onliest kinds of gourds he growed. on his place. Dere was gourds inos‘ as big as waterbuckets, and dey had short handles dat was bent whilst de gourds was