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~Lissis took me aiay from de bottom when I was a little boy, ‘cau8e de overseer

he was so ortiel to me.	Yea sah he ~s mean. I pramised him a kuhn if ever I

got bi~ enough.	.

	“we all liked the Misais. Everybody in dem days used to ride horsebaok. She would come ridin her horse down to d~. bottom with a great big basket of biscuits. We thoug~it they were fine. We ai]. glad to see de MiSSi8 a oomin. We always had plenty to eat, suoli as it ~s. We had coarse food but there was plenty of it.

	“The ~ite folks made our clothes for us. They made linsey for the woman and woolen cloth for de men. They gave clothes sufficient to keep em wax~t. The men had wool clothes with brass buttons that had shanks on em. They looked good when they ~re new. They had better clothes then than most of us have now.

	“They raised mostly oornan hate an wiisat down on de river bottom in those days. They didn‘t raise tobaoco. But I‘ve heard say that they used

to raise it lone before I was born. They out grain with cradles in dem days.

They had a lot ‚ o men and would slay a lot ‚ o wheat in a day. It ~ pretty work to see four or five oradlers in a field and others fo1lowin~ them raking the ivheat in bunches and others following binding them in bundles • The first reapers

that came were called Dorsey reapera. They out the grain and bunched it. It was then bound •by hand.

	‘~When my Miseis took me away from the river bottom I lived in Poolesville where the Kohihos s home and garage i s • I worked around the house and garden .
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I remember when/ the Yankee and Confederate soldiers both oase -to Poolesville.

Capn Sam ~hite (eon of the dootôr:) he join the Confederate in Virginia. lie come home and say he ~ g.S.a to take me along baok with him for to serve him. But the Yankees came and be left very sudden and leave me behind. • I was glad I didn‘t have to go With him. I saw all that fightin around Pooleeville. ~ used to like to wateb em fightin. I saw a Yankee soldier shoot a Confederate and‘ ~ll