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?olks around our settlement put their darkies on all their good mules ~nd horses, and loaded them down With food end valuables, then sent them to the nearby niountains ~nd caves to hide until the soldiers were gone. Mr. Angel himself told me later that lots of the folks who came around pilfering after the war, warn‘t northerners at ail, but men from just anywhere, who had fought in the wer and cerne back home to find all they had was gone, and they h~ïd to live Some way.

	“One day my father and another servant were laughing fit to kill at a greedy little calf that bad caught his head in the feed basket. They thought it was just too funny. About that time a Yankee, in his blue uniform coming down the road, took the notion the men were laughing at hirn. ‘What are you laughing at?‘ he said, and at that they lit out to run. The man called my father and made him come beck, ‘c8use he was the one laughing so hard. Father thrught the Yankee was going to shoot him before he could make him understand they were just laughing at the calf.

	“When the war was ov~er, Mr. Love celled his slaves tog~ether and told them they had been set free. lie explained. every~ thing to them very carefully, and told them he would make farming arrangements for all that wanted to stay on there with hirn. Lots of the darkies left after they heard about folks getting rich working on the railroads in Tennessee and about the higb wages that were being paid on those big plantations in Mississippi. Some of those labor agents were powerful smart about stretching the truth, but those folks