but long shirts in summertime ‚ but corne winter evvybody had good. warn clothes made out of wool off of Marse Geraldts own sheep, and boys, even little tiny boys, had britches in winters

	.	“Dldyou ever see folks shear sheep, Child? Well, it was a sight in dem days. Marster would tie a skeep on d~e scaffold, what he had done built for dat job, and den he w~u1d have nie set on de sheep‘s head whilst he cut off de wool. ife Sont it to de factory to have it. carded into bats and. us chillun spun de thread at home and rnanuny and Mistess wove it into cloth for our winter clothes. Nobody warn‘t fixed up better on church days dan Mcrster‘s Niggers and he was sho proud of dat.

	“Us went to church wid our white folks ‘cause dere warn?t no colored churches dein days. None of‘ de churches ‘round our part of de country had xneetin‘ evvy Sunday, so us went to threediffunt xaeetip‘ houses. On de tust Sunday us went to Gaptaln Crick Baptist church, to Sandy Crick Presbyterian church on se cond Sundays ‚ and on thi rd Sundays meet‘ was at Antioch Methodist church whar Marster and Mistess was members. Dey put me under de watchkeer of deir church when I was a mighty little gal, ‘cause my white folks sho b‘lieved in de church and in livin‘ for God; de lamm‘ dat dex~ two