rrios~t all night tc finish up.	~ ~ ~

	~	“Dey mixed wool wid de lintootton to~pirithread to make cloth for our winter clothes. Mammy wove a lot of dat cloth iindde clothes made out o~ it sho would keep out de cold~~ Most of our stockin‘s and socks was knit at honie, but now and den somebody would githold of:a sto‘~bought pairfor $unday-go-‘toraeetin‘ wear. . ~ ~

~~oIored folkses went to churen wid deir own whit€
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folkses Ei~r~d sot in de gallery. One Sunday us was all settin‘ in
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dat church listenin‘ to de white preacher, Mr~ Eianaford, telLin‘ how c~e old debbil wa~ gwine to ~it dem what didn‘t do ri~htil‘ffere Neal burst into unoontro11~b1e laughter. i~is sides shook ani tears ran down his Lace. Finally he be~n h1S~ StQry a€aiti:

“Missy, I just ~ to tell you ‘bout dat âay in deineetin‘ ‘ouse. done
A Nigger had/run off from his marster and was hidin~‘ out rrorii one

place to enother. At night he v:ouid go steal his somepin t‘eat. Ee had done stole some chickens and had ‘em wid. hirn. up in de
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church steeple whar he was hidjn‘ dat day. When daytizae corne. he
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went off to sleep lak ~iggers will do when ~eyain‘t got to hustle, and when ne woke. up ircacher ~ansford was tellin‘ ‘e~ ‘bout de debbil was gwine to git de sinners. Right den a old rcoster what he had stole up ~nd crowed so loud it seemed lak Gabriel‘s truiupet on Judzaent Day. Dat runaway Nigger was skeered ‘cause he knowed dey vias gwine to find him silo, but he warn‘t skeered nuffin‘ compered to dein Ni~gers settin‘ in de gallery. Dey jus‘