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t-o his master‘s, Col. Allen‘s fields the next raorj‘jn. Yes, I grow‘d up in slavery times. I used to carry tubs of clothes down to the old spring house, there was plenty of water, and I‘se wa~hod ail the clothes there. L~o s.nd nil sisters used to wash and sine and we had a good time. I cantt remember rauch of the oie s.ong~s its boon so long ago.

	I had two brothers, and they jined the war and fought in the army. One vIa3 na~iod Harry and ‘tother Peter. Maimny ~to‘ked hard, done all the cookin‘ hut oie i~aster Dale was so good to all of us ch:~ldrenwe did‘t mind it. I‘se was a triischevious gal when I was grow‘th up. i‘se would get a 111cm‘ most every—day. I‘so aiway‘s like to fight the ot‘er children, and I would say, “LTaurniy she hit mott, hut I was bad and I‘se got ray whipp‘n. On my masters fa‘m we killed a lot of hogs for our meat, had a big trough, that we cut the meat up i~n, and put the hams ~d shoulders together, and the middles together, then put ‘ein doi~vn in salt for about six weoks, and then hang them up in the snake—house and smoke ?~‚ ~ïith hickory chips. And leave them all the time till we used tern up. We had a apple house we used to fill every fall with the best apples. The oie master sho‘ had a apple fa‘m. Inside of the house there was a big hole in the ground, dug deep, and we use to fill it full of apples, then covor it over with a straw, and O Lawd, wo would have apples all winttr when the snow lies deep on the ground; sure I wish them old days back.

	Soins of the other old Masters, who had lots of slaves on fa‘ms olose by, was so mean to the slaves they owned. They wo‘ked the women and men both in the fields and the children too, and when the ole Master thought they was‘n‘t do‘n‘ t~f wo‘k, he would take his men ax~1 strip off their shirts, and lash them with caw..hide whips until you could see the blood run down them poor niggers backs.

	The Nigger traders would come through tnd buy up a lot of men, and women