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terday. Us never even heared de oie folks talk nothin‘ whut we oughtn‘t ter hear. Us jess played an‘ stayed~ in a child‘s place. When we wuz sick de white folks seed dat we wuz ‘tended t o . Dey us e t er mak ~T erusal em Oak candy an‘ g i ye us . Dey to ok de leaves of dat bush an‘ boiled ‘eni an‘ den use dat water dey wuz boiled in an‘ put sugar ‘nough in hit ter mak candy. An dey used plenty of turpentine on us too — plenty ov hit, an~ I be-‘ lieves in dat terday, hit‘s er good medicine.“

	~1hen asked about the ~iar, Aunt Jane said she didn‘t remember much about it.~~1“But dare‘ s one thing ‘bout hit I sho‘ does
I‘ ‘member, an‘ dat‘s my young ~iistess Beckie‘s husband, ~1r. Frazier, : being off fightin‘ in de Wah, an‘ she gittin‘ er letter fr.um him
: sayin‘ he wuz commt home sich an‘ sich er day. She wuz so happy she had all de grown slaves wu‘kin‘ gittin‘ ready fer him. Den dey brung her er letter sayin‘ he had been kilt, an‘ she wu~z in
de yard when she read hit an‘ if dey hadn‘t er kotch ~er she‘d OV fell. I ‘members de wonien‘takin‘ her in de housean‘ gittin‘ her ter bed. She wuz so up sot an‘ took hit so hard. Dem wuz
~__~j~T hard times an‘ sad ‘uns too. ‘Course I wuz too small ter know rauch whut wuz gwine on, but I could tell hit wuz bad fr~im de way de older folks looked.

	\\	I recollecta when dey say ~reedom had cum. Dare wuz a speakin‘ fer de slaves up here in town in Barnett‘s ~~Ote. Dat ruornin‘ 01e kiss sont all de oldes‘ niggers to de speakin‘ an‘ kep‘ us little ‘uns dat day. She kep‘ us busy sweepin.‘ de yards an‘ sich as dat. An‘ she cooked our dinner an‘ give hit to us herself.