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nothin‘ er make no noise afte‘ den1‘ All de cullud folks slep‘ on croker sacks full of hay er straw.

	~	“Did I ever see any niggers punished? Yessurn, I sho‘ has. Whupped an‘ chained too. Dey w~s whupped ‘tu de blood come, ‘tu dey back split all to pieces. Den it was washed off wid salt, an‘ de rigger was put right back in de fiel‘. Dey was whupped fer runnin‘ away. Sometimes dey run afte‘ ‘em fer days an nights with dem big old blood houn‘s. Heap o‘ people doan b‘lieve dis. But I does, ‘cause I seed it myse ‘f.

	“I‘se lived here forty-five years, an‘ chipped

turpentine moe‘ all my life since I was free.

	“I‘ee had three wives. I didn‘ have no weddin‘s, but I znar‘ied ‘em ‘cordin to law. I woan stay with one no other way. My fust two wives is dead. Liza an‘ me has been mar‘ied ‘bout ‘leven years. I never had but one chile, an‘ ‘at by my fust wife, an‘ he‘s dead. But my other two wives had been mar‘ied befo‘, an‘ had chullun. “Simon here,“ pointing to a big buck of fifty~ five •~itting on the front porch, “is Liza‘s oldest boy.“







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