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whip but I diű‘nt care fer I give the mistress a good‘un too.

	‘tWe lived off to the back of the masters house in a little log cabin, that had one winder in the side. We lived tobly well and didn‘t starve fer we had enough to eat but we didn‘t have as good as the master and mistress had. ~fe would slip in the house after the master and mistress wuz sleeping and cook to suit ourselves and cook what we wanted.

	“The Mistress had an old parrot and one day I ‘wuz in the kitchen making

o ookie s ‚ and I de o ided I want od s orne of them so I to oks me out s orne and put them on a chair and when I did this the mistress entered the door, I picks up a cushion and throws over the pile of cookies on the chair and mistress cane near the chair and the old parrot cries out, Mistress burn ~ ‚ Mistress burn, then the mistress looks under the cushion and she had me whupped but the next day I killed the parrot, and she often wondered who or whet killed the bird.

	It ITve seen wholo pigs roasted before open fire place and when it wuz done

we would put a nice rod apple in its mouth and the big white folks company that come would eat of this delicious dish. Sometimes we had to hake pies for a week to supply the company that wuz invited to our masters and mistresses house. They served elaborate dinners and hundreds of guest were invited.

	“My master wuzn‘t as mean as most xn~sters. Hugh White wuz so mean to his slaves that I kr~~ow of two gals that killt themseifs. One nigger gal sudie w‘1z found across the bed with a pen knife in her hand. He whipped another nigger dal most to death fer f~rgiting to put onions in the ste~. The next day she went down to the river and fer nine days they searched fer her and her body finally washed upon the shore. The master could never liŚe in that house again as wheu he would go to sleep he would see the nigger standing over hi~ bed. Then he moved to Richmond and there he stayed uiitil a little later when he hung himself. ~