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day Mr • i~shbie would call all the slaves together ‚ give them presents ‚ money, alter which they spent the day as they liked. On .New Year‘s day we all were scared, that was the time l‘or selling, buying and trading slaves. We did not know who was to go or come.

	“I do not remember of playing any particular gaine, ~iy sport was fish-‘

ing. You see I do not believein ghost stories nor v~ooism, I have nothing to say. We boys used to take the horns of a dead cow or bull, cut the end off of it, we could blow it, some having different notes. We could tell who was blowin~ and from what plantation.

	“~Yhen a slave took sick she or he would have to depend on herbs, salves or other remedies prepared by someone who knew the medicinal‘value. ~hen a valuable hand took sick one~of the overseers would go to Upper Ville for a doctor.“