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dat little trunk i~at Aunt Tame used to k~e~ gingerbread in, dey tound jus‘ lots of money in it. ~arster tuk keer o! dat r~i~ney ‘til h~ found Uncle ~rift‘s öwn sister and den he givè it all to her.

~	‘~One ~tiine Marster fussed some of hiá~ mone~r a~ lie didn~t ‚iant to ‘cuse nobody, so he ‘cid~ed he wo~ild tix~.out whc~ had done ~e . debbilment . 1~e put a big rooster in a coos ~‚ wi~ his haid atickin‘ out. Dent he called all de Niggers up to de yard and told ‘em somebody had. been stealin‘ his mone~‘, a~ 5at evvybod3r must ~git in line and march ‘round dat öoop and ~ tetch it. . ae said dat when de guiit~ cines tetched it de old. rooster would örow. ~vvybody tetchedit ‘cept one old ~anand his wifé; dey jus‘wou1dti~t corne nigh dat coop whar dat röo~ter was a-lookin‘ at evvybody out of his little red eyes~ ~ Mariter had dat old man and ‘oman sarohed and found all de money what
had been stole. ~ .		.

wMeinm~y died ‘boùt ayear atter de war, arid I x~ver

will forgit how Mist‘esscr1edari~d said: ‘Neal, your xtrainrny is done gone, and Idon‘t knowwhat I‘ll douidou~her.t Not long at~er dat ‚ Daddy bid. for de contract t o carry de mail and he got de place, but it niade de white folkses xaighty mad, ‘cause some
white folkses had put ~	Dey •Iowe~

dat Daddy better not never start out ~i4 dat mail,. ‘e~a~use ith~ did he was gwifle to be sorry ~ Marster begged Daddy not to risk it and told him if he would stay dar wid. ~im he would let him have a plantation for as long as he lived, and so us stayed on •