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they would find the ‘possum in such a tight place that most of his hair would be rubbed off before they could get him out. Darkies hunted rabbits, squirrels, coons, all kinds of birds, arid ‘specially they was fond of going after wild. turkeys. Another great sport was hunting deer in the nearby mountains. I managed to get a shot at one once. Morse George was right good about letting his darkies hunt and fish at night to get meat for themselves. Oh! Sure, there were lote of fish and they caught plenty of ‘em in the Little Tennessee and Sugar Fork Rivers and in the numerous creeks that were close by. Red horse, suckers, and salmon are the kinds of fish I reinerriber best. They were cooked in various ways in skillets, spiders, and ovens on the big open fireplace.

	“Now, about the clothes we wore in the days of the war, I couldn‘t rightly say, but n~y ~&other said we had good. comfortable garments. In the summer weather, boys and men wore plain cotton shirts and jeans pants. The homne-‘raade linsey-woolsy shirts that we wore over our cotton shirts, and the wool pants that we wore in winter, were good and warm; they had brogan shoes in winter too. Folks wore the same clothes on ~indays as through the week, but they had to be sure that they were nice and clean on Sundays. Dresses for the women folks were made out of o ot ton checks ‚ and. they had sunbonnets too.

	“Marse George Sellars, him that married Miss Oa‘line Angel, was my real master. They had four children, Bud, Mount, Elizabeth, and, and er; I just can‘t bring to recollect the name