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leakint . De wash place wuz nex‘ to de spring. Pa fixed us

.	up a big old stump wriar us hao. to battle de cIo‘es wid a bat-

•tlin‘ stick. • it tuk a s1~iit of battlin‘ ~o ~it de dirt out soLietinles. .

Ulf you turned a chunk over in ~e l~ire, bad luck wuz

SIlO‘ to come to you. It a dog howled a certain way at night, or ~ a scritch owl corne in de fl1~iIt, death wuz on de way to you, an‘ you always i~iad to be keerflul so maybe had spirits would leave you alone.

	“Pa built us a flew kitc~~en, jus‘ lak what de white folkses had dem days. It sot out in de back yard, a little piece of a way from our nouse. de iaade it oui oi logs an‘ put a big old chirably wid a bi~ fireplace at one end. 3enciies wuz built ‘roun‘ de sides tor seats. i~ere wa~n‘t no floor in it, Out just dirt floor. Dat wu~ one ~ran‘ ~dtciien an‘ us wuz mighty proud

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~— “My w‘.ite folkses beg:ed me riot to leave ‘em, when I told



‘em I wuz gwine to r~iarry Joe Telfair. I‘d dç~ie been wukkin‘ i‘or ‘ein fl1~i1 on to six years, ~n‘ wuz mos‘ twenty year~i old. Dey gini~ r~~e ray weadiri‘ cio‘es, an‘ when I seed ciera clo‘es I wuz one proud Nig~‘er, ‘cause dey wuz jus‘ ~ak I wanted. De nightgown wuz made out of white bleachin‘ an‘ nad lots oi tucks aii‘ rutiles an‘ it even nad purr sleeves. ~~3uio‘ ‘nougii it ciid De petticoat had rur— lICS an‘ puffs plum. up to ue wais‘ ban‘ • i)ei‘~ wuz a cosset kiver