mat tre s se s ‚ or some time s in the o ane brake s • After

~	the Yankees left) shč‘d ring a bel]. and they would.

/	know they could come out of hiding. 4~Vhen ~ first ~ ~

\.	heard the slaves were free, they didn‘t believe it so

.\_	they jast stayed on with their “white folks“.) ~ the ‘~egroes were mean or ran away, they wo~ild. be chased by~ hounds and. ~ back ~or punishment~~r

~	Whčn still a young man, Ike ran away with a negro \~ouple coming in a buggy to Blanton Mill near Griffin

and. worked. for Mr. William Blanton until he died, Ltter he had been here a while, he got married. His wii~e‘s people had the wedding supper and party. He was a fiddler so had to fiddle most all night then the next day his “white folks“ gave him the food. for the wedding dinner that he had at his own house.

Ike says every(~e‘~en)years the locusts come and its sure to be a short crop that “GOd. sends all sorts of ousse&‘ (ourses) sometimes its the worms that eat the cotton or the corn or the bugs that eat ~t.he wheat. He doesntt believe in “hante“ or “conjurin“. He proved to Mr. William that hants in Sid Sootta house “wuz jes sheeps.“ It seems Bid. Scott was a “t~ean nigger“,o~