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som!bQd~y to help him ralseupherchillun, 8nahedone ‘zact1y~ ‚ what she axed hurt to. ~ ~11 of ray own white folkses haS d~one died out, and Old ‘De]Ja won‘t be heremuch longer. One of de~Thorntons here ~‚ I forgits which one married up wid my young Mjst‘ess, Rebecca Jackson. lier gal got xaarried up wid Dr. rago, a horsedoctor. . ~ insurance man n~xaed Mr. Speer married into de 3ackson fambiy t o o . Ee nioved ~ hi s fambly from here to de mount ains on acC ount of hi s s on ‚ s health ‚ and I J‘ los ‚ track o f ‚ era d en.

	%	“Lordy, Chi1e~ What you want to know ‘boUt my weddin‘ fQr, nowhow? Dere ain‘t never gwine to be no. more:

weddin‘s lak dey had back dere in dem times ‘cau~se folkaes thinks dey got to have too much nowadays. Then £olkses got married den dey was a-thinkin‘ ‘bout makin‘ sho‘ ‘nough homes for deyse1fs~, 8.fld gittin~‘ ~iarried meant somepin sort of holy. )Laminy said dat niost times when slaves got married dey jus‘ juzixped backwards over a broomstick whilst deir Marster watched and den he pernouriced dat dey was man and wife. Now dey is got to go to de courthouse and pay out good money for a license and d~en go git a preacher or seinebody. lak a jestice jedge to sa~r de marriage words over ‘em.

	“Me and Solomon Thoxiias had to go buy us a ~ li cerise too ‚ but us did.n ‘t mind ‘bo ut ~uttin‘ out dat money ‘cause us was so rauch in love. Iwore a pretty ~i1te dress and a breakfast shawl, and atter us had dx~ne went to de preacher mants house and got married, us come right on here to dis very house what had b‘longed to aolomon‘s daddy ‘fore it was Solomon‘s. ~Js built two more rooms