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was cooked in a great big fireplace, about four feet wide, and you could put on a whole stick of cord wood at a time. When they ranted plenty of hot ashes to bake with, they burnt wood from ash trees. Sweet potatoes and bread was baked in the ashes. Seems like vittuls don‘t taste as good as they used to, when we cooked like that. ‘Possums, Oht I dearly love ‘possums. My cousins used to catch ern and when they was fixed up and cooked vïith sweet potatoes, t~possum meat was fit for a king. Marse ~ôilly had a son named Mark, rhat was a little bitty man. They said he was a dwarf. lie never done nothing but play with the children on the plantation. He would take the children down to the crick what run through the plantation ~ui.i fish all day. We had rabbits, but they was most generally caught in a box trap, so there warn‘t no time wasted a-huntin‘ for
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	“In summer, the slave women wore white homespun and the :~en wore L~ants and shirts iiiade out of cloth what looked like overall ClOth does now. In winter, we wore the same things, ‘cept Marse

:	iilly give the men woolen coats what co~ down to their knees, and the woiien wore warm wraps what they called sacks. On Sunday we ~ had

‘\	iresses dyed different colors. The dyes were made from red clay arid barks. ~ark from pines, sweetgums, and blackjacks was boiled, ii~id each one made a different color dye. The cloth i~iade at horx~ was ~oarse and was called ‘gusta cloth. MarseBillyletthe slaves :aise chickens, and cows, and have cotton patches too. They would ~ll butter, eggs, chickens, broors, made out of wheat straw and such like . ~ rnu~1in and good shoes, )ants, coats and other nice things for their SUnday clothes. Marse

-~6 illy bought le ather fro~n Mars te r Bruinby‘ s tanyard and had shoe s made