P!x_Slave stories
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	~ Unhapr.1y Err.erience.	-


~ -the necessary work hD.t t1i~ ~ kept leaving as ±~ast ~ t1~ey couiä~.

~	“~7hen the boat ~as nearin~c Eioi~nan, i~entuei:y, we sriialied ~ire,and by

~	the time we were in the harpor passengers Were being heiJ. to kee~ them from
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jumpù1~‘ OVe~ bop~ra. ~ the (~~apt~u: to1c~ us ioys to ~uy~ into the water

ai~ save OUI~Se]-VeS. Two o~ us 1ïjunehe~. a hale o-f cotton over.~boar~1 and. jurn~ ed onto it. ~.s we -oath11e~ ~vr~y we hail to often ~:o untier to ~ut ~ut the fire$

as OUT c1othin~T \7OUid bI~ ze ~ uflth:~r the fiyii~ branis :--that feil upon ourbodie~
‘YTIIC burning boat ~~»Tas ‘JockeCL at Hiokrnan. The passengec~ were ~ut ashore


.	but none o±‘ the freight ~ s~ved, anJ. from a nearh~ willow thicket my matey ~I~ï I ~7~itehei tiLe ~O1d Just burn to the water‘s ed~e.

	“Always hee~t the w~rnings of nature,‘~ ~~id Uncle George, “If you see rats leaving a ship or a house prepare for ~ flre.“

	c~eorge ‚.~. Ar~~o1d said that Evansville was quite a nice place and ~ eteamboet port even in the e~..rIy da~is o~ his boating experiences am3. he de— cide~ to make his home here. He located in the town in 1880. “The Court House was 1ocate~ at Third~ and Ilath streets. ‚ 3treet cars were mule drawn andpeople thought it great ftin to ride then.‘T..~.I~e recalls the first shovel :~u1i of ~Lirt being i~ited when the new Courthouse was beingerected, ana. when it was ~inisheä~ two l7hite men ~k~: finishing the slate roo~, ~eII to thei

‘d~eath in the Court House yard. ~	. .

~	-~ G-eorge ~ Arnold procur~~ed ajob as porter in a who1esa1~ feed. store
~on i~iay 10, 1880.	Joi‘in Iluobard ana CoinDany d.id business at the place,at this
 place heworked. thirty seven years.		P.~V.Griese, former mayor of Evansvilié

has often befriended the negro man and. i~ reaay to s~eak ~kind1y wort in ~iS ~praj~e~ But the f~oe of John Sims still Dresents itself when George Arno1d~ Is ~ ~1~eter Œo anythin& t~ hurt any other person ‚ “says he ‚ “The hurt

iWar~ eomes back t O yOU.tt

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