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the Jenkinees. Jest the other day, I met Mise C‘ini].la down town arid Bhe say. ‘Alice, am‘ this you? and. I say, ‘Law me, Mies C ‘milla ‚ ‚ and. ‚ she say, ‘Alice ‚ why don ‚ you come to see Mother? She am ‚ been so well — she love to see you. ..‚

	‘I~ell, as I was a saying, we d.idII‘t work sohard., them &aye. We got up early, ‘cause the fires had. to be lighted to make the house warm for the white folks, but in them days, di.nner was in the middle of the day - the quality had. theirs at twelve o‘clock— and. they had. a light supper at five and. when we was through, we was throug~i, and. free to g~%he quarters and. set around and. smoke a pipe and rest.

	“Yes‘m they taught us to read. and. write. ~Sunday afternoons, my young mistresses used. to teach the pickaninnies to read the Bible. Yes ‘ni we was free to ~o to see the niggers on other plantations but we had. to have a pass an‘ we was checked in an~ out. No‘m, I ain‘t never seen no slaves sold, nor none in chains, and I ain‘t never seen no Ku fluxera.

	RI live with the Wakefiel‘s till I was ‘leven and. then Marse Wakefiel‘ give me to my young mistress when she married and. went to North Carolina to live. And ‘twas in North Carolina that I seed. Sherman, ‘deed I diA! I seed. Sherman and. his sojers, gather— ing up all the bogs and. all the hoe sea ‚ and. all the cows and. all the little eullud. ehillen. Them was drefful daysZ These is dref-~ fui days ‚ too • Old mau ~ Satan ‚ he sure am on earth now.

	‘Yea‘m, I believes in glioa‘see. I ain‘t never seed ‘em but I is feel ‚ em. I live once in a house ‚ where a man was killed. I lie in my bed and they close in on me~ ~ No‘m, I ain‘t afraid. The landlord say when I move out ‚ ‚ you is a tay there longer than anybody .1 ever had. ‚ ‚ Nother house I live in (this was in North