1 ~rrard Coix~j s Atlas Stone s from Ex-Slave ~ . (E1f.~a Ison) . (2).

Lindsey quilts, which were made from the cast.off cj~t~e~, cut into squares aild strip8 . „

	Bert can just remember his grandparents.

	He would feed pigs; pulled ‘tpusley“ our of the garden for them “and them pigs loved it mighty well“.

	No money was paid for work. Bacon and t1pone bread‘1 baked in the yard in an oven that had lags and lid on top was the clUef food a~1 his favorite. The coals were put on top as well as under the. oven.

	They drank sweet milk and butten milk, but no coffee; they: a1ao~

ate cabbage, squash, sweet and Irish potatoes, which were cookedwiUi

skins on, greased, and put in the oven. “Possum‘1 and coon hunts weré !~

big events, they would hunt all night. The possumswere bakedin th~r ~

ovens and usually with sweet potatoes in their mouths. The little boys ~

would f~1.s1~t, bringing home their £i6h to be scaled. by ru~bing~ them ~

between their ht~nda, rolled in meal and cooked in a big skillet.. “We

would eat these fish with pone corn bread and we ‘ had big j~t ~ “Marse Stone had a big sugar camp with 300 trees. We would ~

wak~d up at sun-up by a big horn and called to get #our buckets and.
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go to the sugar camps and bring water from the maple trees. These trees had been tapped and eldeiwood spiles were placed in the taps: ~ where the watér dripped to the wooden troughs below . We carried this water to the big poplar troughs which were about 10 feet long and~ 3 feet high. The water was then dipped out end placed in different kettles to boil until ~t became the desired thickness for“Tree Mo. ~-
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lassest‘ . Old Miss Polly would always take out enough of the waterto‘~ boil ¶~øWfl t~o make sugar cakes for us boys. We hadgreat times at these El u stirrin‘ if“ which usually took place at night . .