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wuks up to de eourt‘ouse, cookin‘ for de folkses in jail, ar4 lt‘s ailus late when she gits back home. ‘Souse rae for puttin‘ my old hat backon, but dese old eyes jus‘ can‘t stand de light even here in the hail, less I shades ‘em.“

	~h~n asked to tell the story of his life, he chuckled. “LaWSY, ~iissy ‚ „ ~ he seid • “Does you mean dat you is willin‘ to set here and listen to old N~e~i talk? ‘Tain‘t many foikses i,~that wants to heer us old Niggers talk no more. I jus‘ loves to think back on dem days ‘cause dem was happy times, so much better‘n times is now. Folkses was better den. Dey was allus ready to hoip one another, but jus‘ look how dey is now~

	“1 was borned on Marster L~‘rank ~ Upson‘ s place ~ down in Oglethorpe County, nigh Lexin‘ton, Georgy. ‘Marster. h~ad a plantation, but us never lived d~ar for us. stayed at de home place what never had rnore‘n ‘bout80 acres or lend ‘round it. Us never nad. to betrottin‘ to de sto‘ evvy time us started to cook, ‘cause what warn‘t raised on de home place, ~Aarster had ‘em raise out on de big plantation. . Evvything us n~eded t‘eat and wear was groWed on ~~rse Frank‘s land.

	~9Iarold and ~Tane Upson was my Daddy and Mammy; only folkses jus‘ called Daddy ‘Hal.‘ Both of ‘em vies raised right der on de Upson place whar dey played together whilst dey was çhlIlUnb Mammy said she h8d washed and ~ewed for Daddy ever since she was big enough, and when dey got grown dey jus‘ up and