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got, to láughln‘ sp. ‘bout how he tuk. ~ g~as away~ ft‘Q~&~ other boys and how dem boots huzt 14m dat It, ~coi~ ia~ ~ ~ never would stop, mien he finally did s~op ~a~hi~‘ ~nd s~~i‘ ills sides lie said: ‘Dat‘s aliright Abrah~n~ ‚Don‘t never.~et
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nobody beat your time wid de gals. And dat1s all he ever said
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	“lNhen fly sister got marrieU, us sho cUd have a grand time. Us cooked a pig whole wid a shiny red apple in &ts mouth and set it right in de middle of de long tabl,e w~aat us had built out In de yard. Us had evvything good to go wid dat

iDig, and atterdat supçer, us danced aflnLghtlong. My~is~ ster never had seed dat man but onetin~e 1fore she zriarrie~ hjz~i.

	~	‘w Daddy and his cousin ~im ~wore wid, Q~ie~. another dat it one died~ ‘fore de other ~at de one what was left

would look atter de daid e‘ s faxtibly ‚ and s ee dat none of ~ de, chillun was bound out to wuk for nobody. it warn‘t long att!r dis dat Daddy died. I was jus‘ fourteen, and was WUkiXL‘ for a~ brick masbn lamm‘ dat trade. ~ ~Daddy ad done been ~ck a
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while, and one night de fambly woke nie upand ~&id he was dyin~. I run Cast as I could Cor a doctor but.. D~d.dy was done daid when I got back. ~ hIIII right side of i~axnmy in de old grave— yard. It was m9~ a year atter dat ‘fore us had de funeral sermon preached. Dat was de way folkses done den. Now Meminy and Daddy was botb. gone, but old Marster said us chilluu co~4ld live d~r long as u s want ed ~ to . I went on ba ek to wuk ‚ te aus e I was crazy to be as good a~aason asmy Daddy was. In Lexin‘ton dere is a. rt5ok wall still standin‘ ‘round a, whole square what. Daddy