t~Angs tteat. Oid~rs~er was dar, ~nd ~wI~en 1 stood up flfore ~il dem folks and :s~id ray little speech widout. misaln‘ a imrd, ~ ::~rster slw did laugh and clap his hands. ~ 11e oaUed me over to w~ar he w~s settin‘ and said: ‘I knowed you could lam fl~ you~

~ïianted to.t ‘Beet of all, he give‘me~~8“~1O1e doil&D. I wa~
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rich den,piuxab.rioh. One of mysisters~ou1dn‘~ lam notMn‘~.

~e only letters she could ever say w~s ‘G-~O‘~~D.‘ No matter what ~rou axed ~er to spell she allus said ~ ‘G—Ç~-~ . t $~ ~ a good field hand though and a good ‘oman and she lived to be aiore dan
	go years old. .	~ : ~

	~	“Now, talkln‘ ‘lout froIi~kin ‚ ‚ us really used ~to danee. What I means, is sho ‘nough o1d-time.break-~downs. So~e.~
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times us d1dn‘~t heile no musie~‘oeptjus‘~be~t1n~time ~

~nd bucketsbut most tiiiies Old EIioeEU~son played his~tid&ie ~ ~ ~ f~or us, ~nd it had to be tuned again atter e~vy set us dan~ed. Re. never knowed but one tune and he pl~yeddat over ~nd over. Sà~e- • times dere was 10 or 15 couples on de floor at de sai~etii~e~arid us dj~n‘t thlflk nothin‘ of danei±~‘~ ~11 night long. t~s hail plinty of old corn c~uiäe for refreshment, and 8tter ~11e‘éhadtwo or t.~ireè cups of dat juice, he could git ‘Turkey In desStraw‘ out of dat fiddle lak nobody‘s business, ~ ~

“One tirn.e a houseboy from another ~1antation wanted

to come tO one of our ~addyrii~ht den~es,, so his ~rater told him
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to shine his boOts for SuxI~ay and~fixh±s hoss ±‘or de night and

lenhe could git off ror de frolic. Abraham shinedhia m~rster‘s .
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