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	“I was taught how to work ‚ round de house ‚ hovi to sweep an‘ draw water trug de well an‘ how to kin‘le tires an‘ keep de wood box tilled wid wood, but I was oraxy to laim how to plow an‘ when I could I would slip off an‘ get a old black man to let me walk by his side an‘ hold de lines an‘ I thought I wa8 big ‘nou~t to plow.

1~ ~	“Marse Murry didn‘ have no overeeer. He made de slates

I work, an‘ he was good an‘ kind to ‘em, but when dey didn‘ do right

%i he would whip ‘em, but he didn‘ beat ‘em. ~e niver stripped ‚~

~	to whip ‘em. Yes ~‚~‚ he whipped me but I needed it. One day I

~	toi‘ hini I was not goin‘ to do whut he toi‘ me to do — feed de

~	mule ~ but when he got through wid me I wanted to teed dat mule.

~ ~	“I cc~ to live wid ~rae ~ ‚ f0 dar ~ a to~

here. I~r ~as only to‘ houses in dia place whezi I Was a boy. I

seed de tust train dat OO~ES to die here town an‘ it made so much

*oise dat I run trum it. Dat smoke putted out‘n de top an‘ de

bell Wa8 ringin‘ an‘ all de racket it did make made nie ekeered. ~‘I heered dem talkin‘ ‘bout de war but I didn‘ know

ihut dey meant an‘ on day Maree Murry aaid he had jined de Q~iitman Guards an‘ wae gřiii‘to de war an‘ I had to go wid him. Old

\	~&iaaue cried u.n‘ ay rn~~nny cried but I thought it would be tun.

\	He tuk me ‘long an‘ I waited on him. I kept his boots ahinin‘ ~ \ao yer could aee yer face in ‘em. I brung him water an‘ ted an‘