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big, oie grey oat I called “Tarn.“ I wanted to move him so I put him in a pillow slip so‘s he couldn‘t see where we mie takin‘ him so he oouldn‘t f iii‘ the way back. He stayed ‘round his new home for a few days an‘ then he went back to hi s oie home • Mr • Duvall went and got him again for me • Not many white men would do that for a little nigger boy. He musts told Toni somethin‘ for he never run off no more.

Mr. Duvall usta ride a b1azed-~faoe, sarl mare named Kit. He most al‘ays

taken me up behind him, ‘specially if he was goin‘ to town. Kit was trained to hunt deer. . I oan‘t remember any deer in the country but Mr. Duvall yousta tell me ‘bout ‘em ‚ an ‘bout the way they had their hawses trained. He said there wus a place down on Panther Liok Creek, be1o~çh~iere we lived, that was a deer lick. Th~ deer would come there and lick the ground close to the creek because there was salt left there by the high w aters • He ‚ d put a strap with a littel bell on ‘round oie Kit‘s neck ant tie her to a tree not far from this lick, Then he‘d hide behin‘ ‘nother tree close to Kit. 1‘~hen the deer come oie Kjt‘d shake her head an‘ the deer would raise their heads to see what the noise made by the bell was an‘ where it w~s commt from. Then he‘d shoot the deer in the head. He showed me the place where he killed the biggest buck he ever seen, right here jess out o‘ town a little ways. He kept the horns An‘ :i: remember seem‘ ‘era in the attic at his house. He had an oie riffle he called “Oie Betsyt‘ that‘d been his deer rihe.

	~	After I got to be a big boy, huntin‘ and fishin‘ was good. I neyer got to do any uv it exočpt on Saturdays and Sundays . Everbody had a brush fence ‘round the house to keep the stock in out o‘ the yard arid one day I seen a big bird sail down on the fence and run under it. Mother vras out in the back yard so I said t o myse if, ‘ li get the gun arid kill that hawk. I taken good aim at its head and banged away. At the crack o‘ the gun I never heard :suoh ~ a f].t~tterin‘ in my iti~e. Mother acme runnin,‘ ~ to see what was the