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would play en den de girls would line up on one side of de cabin en de boys on de tother side while the folks war a olappin en er playing why de boys en girls wuld ohoose dar parrners den weuns sing:

ttOle Brer Rabbit,
Shake it, shake it,
How I love you,
Shake it, shake it.

Id ruther play dat game dan to eat.“

	“We us~er tap maple trees en hey big gathering foh ter make maple sugar dat war while I lived at Gracey.

	“De stage coach day war big days, wen de stage coach war a ocmin thru why us little nig~ers would try tot keep up wid de horses en run erlong side do ooaoh en scmetimes a man or woman would drop us a penny den dar was sho a scramble. .

	“I remember wen we uster wash aloes wid a paddle. You wet dose oloes en putsoft soap in dem, the soap war made outer ash lye en grease den dese does war spread on a smooth stump an beat wid paddles till dey war clean. Den come de wooden wash board, hit war joe a piece of wood wid rough plaees or ridgés ohiseled in hit. Wen we uster wash quilts we uster cyt a nikasses varrek ubtor eb dat made de tub c9.eb niy ~inmy would put water in dose tubs den soft soap de quilts den us chilluns would git in de tubs in our bare foots en tromp de dirt out.“

	“We uster use grease lamps, deso war made outer iron, wid a piece of . co~tt on r ope dovm in de grease on dis je s send out a pu~ ~el ly light • Dem de brass lamp oa~ne erlong ~it war a little lamp wid a wich wid a handle in

.	er stem, no burner or nuthin hit burned coaloil but had no. chimney.“ “Hee, Hoe, flee, I remember arbout a story Mary Beard told rer;.iae erbout ~ a slave woman dat war foolish. Itez‘ Massa oouldn‘t git no body ~er buy her,