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keen. She liai no defeot in h.az‘ing.

	Following F~ 8O~O quertions and her an~were s

	~Luoy~, did you belong to the Carrolla before the war?“ “k~O8ah, I didxie lib around hah den. I.e born don on de bay“.

“H~~ old are you?“

	“Dumic sah. ~LteS Arme, ahe had it written down in her book, ~zt she saidtwas too muoh trouble for her tc be al~ays lookin it up“. (Her eon, Lafayette, says he ‘was her eldest child and that he was born on the Severn River, in Maryland, the 15th day of October, 1872. Supposing the mother was tw~zity—five years old then, she would be about ninety now. 8o~ue think she is more than a hundred years old).

“Who did you belong to?“ ‚t I beloflged to Missus Ann Garner“.

“Did she have ~iiy slavee?“(

“,~ssuh. She had eeventï-five left she hadnt sold when the war ended“.

“What kind of work did you have to do?“

	“o, ehe would set me to pickin up feathers round de yaird. She had a powerful lot of geese. Den when I got a little bigger she had me set the table.

i: ~as just a little gal then. Missue used to say that she ~a. going to make a nurse outen me. Said she was gwine to s~ me to Baltimo to learn to be a nurse“.

“And uhat did you think about that?“	.

	“Oh; I thought that would be tine.. but he uai‘ came befo I got big enough to learn to be a nursa“.

	“I re~aebers ‚vhen the soldiers came. I think they were Yankee soldiers. De never hurt anybody but they took what they oould find to eat and thay mad. us cook for them. I remebers that ~e and some other il gal s had a play house ‚ but when they came nigh I got skeered. I just ducked through a hole in the fenoe and ran out in the field. One of the soldiers seed me and he hollers ‚ look at that rat run‘.“

	“I remebere ithen the Great Eastern (steamship which laid the Atlantic cable) C— into the bay. Missus inn, and ail the uhite folks went down to Fairhaven i!iarf