“Mi ssus Callaway sho ‚ wuz good t o me . She larnt me my books r~adin‘ and writin‘ ~ and sewin‘ ‚ knittin‘ ‚ and oroche tin‘. I still got some of de wuk dat she larnt me to do.0 At this. point Aunt Merry proudly displayed a number of articles that she had crocheted and knitted. All were fashioned after old patterns and showed fine workmanship. “Mistis larnt me to be neat and clean in evvything I done, and I would walk ‘long de road a_knittint and nebber miss a stitch. I just bet none of dese young folkses now days could do dat. Dey sho‘ don‘t do no wuk, just run ‘round all de time, day and night. I dOn‘t know what‘ll ‘coma of ‘em, lessen dey change deir ways.

	“Whi1~t I wuz still nussi.n‘ Missis‘ little gal and baby boy dey went down to Buffalo Crick to stay, arid dey give me a pretty gray mare. She wuz all mine and her name wuz Lucy.

	HI tuk de chillun to ride evvy day and down at de crick, I pulled off dey dotes and baptized ‘em,in de water. I would wade out in de crick wid tern, and say: ‘I baptizes you in de name of de Padder and de Son and de Holy Ghost.‘ Den I would souse ‘em under de water. I didn‘t know nobody wuz seem‘ me, but one znornin‘ Missis axed me ‘bout it and I thought she n~ought be mad but she just laughed and said dat hit mought be good for ‘ein, ‘cause she ‘spect dey needed oaptizin‘, but to be keerful, for just on t‘other side of de rock wuz a hole dat didn‘ t have no bottom.

	“Dere wuz just two things on deplace dat I wuz ‘fraid of, and one wuz de big registered bull dat Marster had paid so much money for. H~ sho‘ wuz bad, and when he got out, us all stayed in de house I ~ dey cotched ‚ im. Marster had a big black stallion dat cost lots of money. He wuz bad too, but Max‘ster kept ‚ im shut up most of de