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bread when we could git it an‘ it we couldn‘ git it we done widout.

	“Afte‘ I let‘ Mr. lampton I‘ae so~t hers an‘ went to work teT~ Mr. Enoch at lernwood when his aill was jas a old rattletrap of a iiill. I work fer hi~ 45 ysara. At tust I hauled timber out‘n de woods an‘ site‘ whU‘st I hauled lumber to town to build houses. I sornetinies collec‘ fer de lumber but I niver lost one nickle, an‘ dm white folks says I sho‘ was a honest nigger.

	“I lived ber. on dis spot an‘ rode a wheel to J~rnwood

an‘ fed de teams an‘ hitched ‘em to de wagons an‘ I late an‘ niv.r stopped fer anything, an‘ ~ wheel niver shop. I niver ‘lowed anybody to prank wid it, an‘ dat broke up by ~y gran‘ohulluns.

	“Aft. I quit work at de mill l‘as •~ home an‘ plow

gardens fer d. white folks an‘ in~a so~ acre mon•y. I 8ho‘ could plow.

	“I Jinad de New Zion Baptist Church here ii Ïagnàlia an‘ was baptized in~ de ¶Nnghipoa River one Sunday svenin‘ • I was so happy dat I shouted, zae an‘ ny wife bof.. l‘s. still a me~iber of dat church but I‘s.~do not preach an‘ I‘m not no deacon; I‘ae jea a bench member an‘ a mighty p0‘ one at dat. M~y wife was buried tria dat church.

	“Dowi know why I was not called fln Sandell, but mai~ said ~ peppy was named Henry Cornelius an‘ I reckin I was give
every day, was alTer was in de wheel was