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. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ;~tf~‘4 Old Aunt fl~öra cöme ttp atx~ wanted t6 Jine de ~hurch she told ~bout how she had done seed de flebenly ii~ht and changed her ~way of livin‘ ~ ~ ~ Thlkses têstitled den ‘boût ‘de

. goodness of de Lord and a1E~ I~I~t17 b1esS1fl~S what 11e give t“ s~!~ts ‚ and sinners, but dey is done stopped givin‘ lUxa rnuc1~‘ th~ks any‘ more. Derri days, dey ‘zaxnined‘ folkses: ~f~rl~ dey let‘ ‘em jine up
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wid de chüreh~ When dey started ‘zarninin‘ Aunt Flora, de- • preacher axed her: ‘is you done been borned again and does yc,u believe‘dat ~Tesus (~hrist done died to sav~‘sinners?‘ Aunt Flora she started to cry, and she said: • ‘Lordy, Is 11e daid? Us didn‘t know dat. it my old manhad done ‘seribedfor de papér

laic I. told hirn to, us would have knowed when ~Tesus died?~ seal
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giggled, : fl~j~y.9 he said, “ain!t dat ~jus‘/one of d:ém ol~tt~ie

Niggers? ~ey just tuk dat for ign‘aneeandiet‘her corne ‘du into de church.

“Dem days it was de oiistorn$or marsters to hi±~

out what slaves dey had dat warn‘t needed to wuk on 4elr. o~ ‚

land, so our marster hired out~ ~wo of irty sisters. Sis“ ~ ~

hired t o a fambly ‘bout 16 miles front our ‚ placé She didri ‘t 14k

it d a r s o s he run away and I foun d h e r hi d out I n our ‚ t at e ~r ‚~ ouse ~
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One day when us was playin‘ she called to me right lôw end soft

lak a~Ad told me she was hongry aud for me to git her sörnepln t‘eat but not to tell nobody she was dar. She said she had beèn dar widout nothi n „ t ‚ eat fôr s everal days . She was s‘k eered ~ Marst‘er might whup her. She looked so thin‘ and bad I thought she was gwine to
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