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some o‘hls frien‘s come af~ter him, he say he amt gwine a-open dat door. Dey say if he don‘t dey gwine a-break it in. He t.11 ‘em to go ‘head.

	“Whilst dey was a-breakin ‚ In he filled a shore]. full o‘• red. hot coals an‘ when dey c~ie In he th‘owed it at ‘em. Den whilst dey wasa-hollerin‘ he run away. He amt never been seen again to dis good day. I‘se hear‘d since den. dat white folks learnt dat if dey started to whip a Injun dey‘d better kill him right den or else he might git dem. ~

	“My manvny‘s name was Harriet Clemens. When I was too little to know anything ‘bout it she run off an‘ leV us. I don‘t ‘member much ‘bout her ‘tore she ruxi oft, I reckon I was mos‘ too little.

	.	“She toi‘ me when she come after us, after de war was over ‚ ai]. ‚ bout why she had to run away : It was on ‚ count o ‚ de Nigger overseers. (Dey had Niggers over de hoers an‘ white mens over de plow han‘s.) Dey kep‘ a~.tryin‘ to mess ‘roun‘ wid her an~ she wouldn‘ have nothin‘ to do wid ‘em. One time while she was in de fiel‘ de over~ seer asked her to go over to de woods wid him an‘ she said, ‘All right, I ‚ li go find a nie e place an ‚ wait. ‚ She jus‘ kep‘ a-gem. ‚ She sw~ de river au‘ run away. She slipped back onct or twict at night to see us ‚ but dat was all • She hired out to some Zolks dat warnt rich ‚ nough
to have no ‘slaves o‘ dey o~•	Dey was good to her, too. (She never
lacked forwork to do.)	            ~

~	~ “When • m~ ma went oft a old ~men called Aunt ~mnaline kep‘

—.	($1w kep‘ ai]. de orphunt ohillun en‘ dem who‘s m~as had been
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