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	“Old man Dillard Love didfl‘t know half of his slaves. Theywere called ‘Love‘s tree niggers.‘ Some of1 the white folks in that settlement would get after their niggers and. say ‘who do you think you are, you must think you are oneof Dillard Love‘s free niggers the way you act.‘ Then the slave was led to the whipping post and brushed down, and his marster would tell him, ‘now you see who is boss.‘

	“Marse Dillard. often met a darkey in the road, he would stop and inquire of nim, ‘Who‘s nigger is you?‘ The darkey would say ‘Boss I‘se your nigger.‘ If Marse Dillard was feeling good he would give the darkey a present. Heaps of times he gave them as much as five dollars, ‘cording to how good he was feeling. 11e treated his darkies mighty good.

	“My grandfather belonged. to Marse Dillard Love, and when the war was declared he was too old to go. Marse George Sellars went and was wounded. You know all about the blanket rolls they carried over their shoulders. Well, that bullet that hit him had to go all the way through that roll that had I don‘t know how many folds, and its force was ~ust ab~ut spent by the time it got to his shoulder; that was why it didn‘t kill him, otherwise it would have gone through him. ~he bullet was extracted, but it left him with a lame shoulder.

	“Our Mr. Tommy Angel went to the war, and he gct so much experience shooting at the Yankees that he could shoot at a target all day long, and then cover all the bullet holes he made with the palm of one hand. Mr. Tommy was at home when the Yankees come though.