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tine. De wust I ever wuz skeert wuz de time I wuz takin‘ de baby to ride horseback. When one of de Nigger boys on de place started off on Marster‘ s horse, my mare started runnin‘ and I couJ.dn‘ t sto~\ ‘ex~. She runned plumb away wid me, and when de bo~r cotched us, I wuz holdin‘ de baby wid one hand and de saddle wid t‘ other.

	‘$1 sho‘ did have a big time once when us went to i~tlanta. De place whar us stayed wuz ‘bout four miles out, whar Ki.rkwood is flow, and it belonged to Mrs. ~obert ~. Austin. She wuz a widder ‘oman. She had a gal namet Mary and us chillun used to ~1ay to.~ gether. It wuz a pretty j~lace wid great big yards, and de riostes‘ flowers. U5 used to go into Atlanta on de six ‘clock ‘commodation, and come home on de two ‘clock tcorn~odation, but evvythings changed


	9At de Callaway place us colored folks had big suppers and all day dinners, wid plenty to aat — chicken, turkey, and 1,possum, and all de hogs us wanted. But dere warnt no dancin‘ or fightin‘, ‘cause old Missis sho‘ didn‘t ‘low dat.

	“I married when I wuz sebenteen. I didn‘t have no weddin‘.

I wuz just married by de preacher to Albert McCom~ons, at Hutchins. Us stayed at Steebens ‘bout one year after us married and den come to ~thens, whar I stays now. I ain‘t never had bu~t two chillun; dey wuz twins, one died, but my boy is wid .me now.

	“I used to nuss i~iss Calline Javis, and she done got married

and left here, but I still hears from ‘er. She done r~arried one of dem northern mens, Mr. Hope. I ‘members one time whilst dey wuz visitin‘ ~: stayed wid ‘em to nuss deir baby. One of Mr. Ho~pe‘s friends from New York wuz wid ‘em. When dey got to de train to go