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chuliuns warn‘t eatin‘ riotMñ‘ . lie axéd ‘ém what was &e matter and d.èy told him dey h~d done traded all deir bread ~ to me. Marse Frank den axed me if I warn‘t gittin‘ enough t f eat ‚ ‚ caus e he ‚ lowed dere was enou~h dar for all. Den Aunt Tarna had to go and tell on me. She said. I was v~iss dan a hog atter biscuits, so our good Marster ord~ered her to see dat li‘l Neal had enough t‘eat.

	~	•n.I ain‘t never gwine to forgit dat whuppin‘ my own daddy give rae. lie had jus‘ sharpened up a fine new axe for hisseif, and I t±~eided it off to a white boy named Roar what lived nigh usvthen I seed~him out tryin‘ to eut wood w~ a ) sorry old dull axe. I siold Mm ray daddy‘~ fine new axe for 5 biscuits. When he found out ‘bout dat, he ‘lowed he waa gwthe to give me somepin to niake me think ‘fore I done any more tradin‘ of his th1n~s. Mist‘ess, let me tell you, dat beatin‘ he gi~ve nie ever~orewasa-layi~tonOfderod.

	“One day Miss Serena put me in de cherry tree to pick cherries for her, and she told. me not to eat none ‘tII I finished; den. I could have all I wanted, but Ididn‘t mind her and I et so many cherries I got sick and fell out of de tree. Mist‘ess was skeered, but ~arse Frank said: ‘It‘s good enough for hin, ‘cause he didn‘t mind.‘

	~“MaIELmy never did give me but one whup~pin‘ neither. Daddy was gwine to de circus ~nd I sus‘ cut up ‘bout it ‘cause I wanted to go so bad. Mist‘ess give tac some cake arid I hushed