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to this day, and I have only been fishing one or two times since. Then

I didn‘t know what he was talking about, but two or three years later

I learned what Sunday school was, and I started to go.“

	“I went to a subscription school. We would aU pay a man to come to teach us. I used to work for my room and board on Saturday‘s, and go to school five days a week. That would have been all right, if I had kept it up, but I didn ‘t for very long, I learned to read and write pretty good though. There were no Government school then that were free.“

	“We didn‘ t have a naine • The davea were always ~own by the master‘s last name, and after wewere freed we just took the last n~e of our masters and used it. After we had got our freedom papers, they had our ages and all on them, they were lost so we guess at our ages.‘

	“Most of the slave owners were good to their slaves although some of them were brutish of course.“

	“In 1877 a lot of people began coming out here to Kansas, and in 1878 there were several, but in 1879 there were an awf\il lot of colored people immigrating. We came in 1877 to Kansas City, October 1. We landed about midnight. We came by train. Then there was nothing but little huts in the bottoms. The Santa Ye depot didn‘t amount to anything . The Armours ‚ Packing hous e was even smaller than that . There was a swinging bridge over the river. The Kaw Valley was considered gôod-for~nothing, but to raise hemp. There was an áfUl lot of it grown ‘there though, and there were also beavers in the Kaw River, ~nd they used to cut down trees to build their dams. I worked several years and in l8~ß0 I o~e to Franklin County.“