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plantation. Course, I got to go wid de white folkB sometime an‘ 8et in de back, or on de step8. Dat was when I wae little.

	“Lots o‘ Niggers would slip off from one plantation to de other to see some other Nigger8. Dey would always manage to git back ‘fore daybreak. De wore‘ thins I ever heard ‘bout dat was once when my Uncle Alf run off to ‘jump de broom.‘ Dat was what dey call— ed go~‘~ to ~ee a woman. Fie didn‘ come back by daylight, so dey put de Nigger hounds after ‘im. Dey smelled hi~ trail down in de swamp an‘ foun‘ where he was hidin‘.

	“Now, he was one o‘ de biggest Niggera on de place an‘ a powerful tas‘ worker. But dey took an‘ give him 100 lashes wid de cat o‘ ninety«nine tails • Eis back was somethin‘ awful, but dey put him in de fiel‘ to work while de ilood was still a-runnin‘ . He work right hard ‘tu dey lei‘ • Den ‚ when he ~ot up to de end o‘ de row nex‘ to de swamp, he lit out ag‘in.

	“Dey never foun‘ ‘im dat time. Dey say he foun‘ a cave an‘ fix him up a room whar he could live. At nights he would come out on de place au‘ steal enough t‘eat an‘ cook it in his little dugout. When de war was over an‘ de slaves was freed, he cone out. When I saw him, he look lak a hairy ape, ‘thout no~ clothes on an‘ hair growin‘ all over his body.

	.	Dem was pretty good days back in s lay ‚ ry times . My ]~Lareter had a whole passel o‘ Niggera on his place . When any of ‚ em would git sick dey would go to de woods an‘ git herbs an roots an‘ make tea for ‘em to drink. Hogweed an‘ May apples was de bee‘ things I
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