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green, so us cou1dha~ig ‘em on a 11mb of a tree in de shad~e to keep water cool ror us v~ien us was wukin‘ in de field dunn‘ hot weather.

	~	“I never done much field wuk ‘tu de war come on, ‘cause Mistess was lamm‘ nie to be ~ Marse Gerald and Miss Annie never had no chillun ‘cause she warn‘t no bearin‘ ‘oman, but dey was both mighty fond of little folks. On Sunday inornin‘s marntay used to fix us all up nice and clean and take us up to de big house for Marse Gerald. to play wid. Dey was good christian folks and tuk de inostest pains to lam us chillun how to live right. Marster used to ‘low as how he had done paid ~5OO for Ua‘line but he sho.. wouldn‘t sell her for no price.

	“Lvvything us needed was raised on dat plantation tcept cotton. Nary a stalk of cotton was growed tar, but

Jus‘ de saine our clothes was made out of cloth dat Mistess and my mammy wove out of thread us cb~,il1un spun, and Mistess
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tuk a heap of pains inakin‘ up our ôresses. Dunn‘ de war

evvybody had to wear homespun, but dere didn‘t nobody have no better or prettier dresses dan ours, ‘cause Mistess knowed, rnore‘n anybody ‘boutciyein‘cloth. When time corne to make~ up a batch of clothes Mistess would say, ‘Ca‘line hoip me git ) up my things for ‘ ‚ ‚ and u~ would fetch dogwood bark, sumach, poison ivy, and sweetgum bark. That poison ivy made the best black of anything us ever tried, and Mistess could