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a large boy. I came to Baltimore when General Grant was elected,
worked in a livery stable for three years, three years with Dr.
Owens as a waiter and coachman, 3 years with Mr. Thomas Winanson
Baltimore Street as a butler, 3 years with Mr. Oscar Stillman of
Boston, then 11 years with Mr. Robert Garrett on Mt. Vernon Place
as head butler, after which I entered the catering business and con-
tinued until about twelve years ago. In my career I have had the
opportunity to come in contact with the best white people and the
most cultured class in Maryland and those visiting Baltimore. This
class is about gone, now we have a new group, lacking the refinement,
the culture and taste of those that have gone by.
	“When I was a small boy I used to run races with other boys,
play marbles and have jumping contests.
	“At nights the slaves would go from one cabin to the other,
talk, dance or play the fiddle or sing. Christmas everybody had
holidays, our mistress never gave presents. Saturdays were half-day
holidays unless planting and harvest times, then we worked all day.
	“When the slaves took sick or some woman gave birth to a 
child, herbs, salves, home liniments were used or a midwife or old 
mama was the attendant, unless severe sickness Miss McPherson would
send for the white doctor, that was very seldom.”