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at the breast ot a slave woman, but it. was all right if the darkey was a fre e w. After she got t oo old to do regular work ‚ Granny Sarah used to glean after the reapers in the field to get wheat for her bread. She had been a favored slave and allowed to do pretty much as she pleased, and. after she waa a free winan the white folks continued to look after her every need, but she loved to do for herself as lone as 8he was able to be up and about.

	“What did we have to eat then? Why, most everything; ash cakes was a mighty go then . Cornbre ad dough was made into little pones and placed on the hot rocks close to the fire to dry out a little, then hot ashes were raked out to the front of the fireplace and~ piled over the ash cakes. When thoroughly done they were taken out and the ashes washed off; they were just like cake to us children then. We ate lots of home~made lye ho~iny, beans, peas, and all kinds of greens, cooked with tat meat. The biggest, and maybe the best thing in the way of vegetables that we had then was the white-head cabbage; they grew large up there in Carolina where I lived. There was just one bi~ garden to teed all the folks
on that farm.	‚

	“Marse George had a good ‘possum dog that he let his slaves use at night. They would start off hunting about 10 o‘clock. Darkies knew that the best place to hunt for ‘possums was in a persimmon tree. It theycouldn‘t shake him out, they would cut the tree down ‚ but the most fun was when we found the ‚ possum in a hollow log . Some of the hunters would get at one end of the log, and the others would guard the other end, and they would build a fire to smoke the ‘possum out. Sometimes when they had to pull him out,