XI.	01


built in slavery time. Long as he lived he blowed his bugle evvy rwrnin‘ ~o wake up ail de folkscs on ~jarse Frank‘s plantatiori~ ~e never railed to blow dat bugle at break ot day ‘cep on 3undays, end evvyboay on dat place ‘pended on him to wake ‘em up.

	“I was jus‘ a-wukin‘ away one day when Cousin ;rim sont for rae t~ .~.o tc to~:n ~id him. Missy, dat man brung ~ie rir~.ht ilere to J~thens to de old courthouse and bound r~e out to ~a white vLan. He done dat very thing atter swearin‘ to my Daddy rie wouldn‘t never let dat a~peri. I didn‘t w8nt to wuk dat way, so I run away ~nd ~zent back home to wuk. De sheriff come and ~5:ot :i~e and said I I~ad to go back whar ~L was bound out or ~‚o to ‚~ail. .Eretty soon I runned away again and ~ient to Ä~tlanta, an~L dey nevcr bothered me ‘bout dat flO more.

	~‘De onliest time I ever got ‘r€sted was once when

I co~‘::e to town to see ‘bout ~:ittin‘ somebody to pick_cotton for ne end us‘ as .~. ~.ot to a c€rti~in Nig.~er‘s house de police come in •and cau~n~ ‘em in a crap ~em~. 1~ir. ~icUurie, de policeman, said I would nave to go ‘long wid ue others to jail, but rie would hoip rue atter us ~ot dar and :te did. liC ‘ranged it so ~ could hurry beck i~ome.

“Bout de best times us had in de plantation

days was de corn shuckin‘s, log rollin‘s~~nd syrup c‘okin‘s. Us allus finished ur, dem syrup c~okin‘s wid ~ c8ndy pullin‘.