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too, nobody dom‘ nothin‘. U march‘ ‘roun‘ de room an‘ sorter sin~1ak, ‘De Yankees is commt ~ De Yankees is commt t~ Dey wouldn‘ let us out in de big road. Well, dey come. Dey burn up seventy houses an‘ all de stores. Dey tore up de railroad tracks an‘ toted off ever‘thing dey couldn‘ eat. I don‘ un‘erstan‘ nothin‘ ‘bout how come dey act lak dat. 1J5 amt done nothin‘ to ‘em.

	“Well thinge kep‘ gittin‘ worse an‘ worse. After de Sur~ render Niggers got mighty biggity. Mos‘ of ‘em was glad jus‘ to feel free. Dey didn‘ have no better sense. Dey forgot ~vouidn‘ be nobody to take care of ‘em. Things warnt healthy an‘ my mamxny an‘ me kep‘ close to de white folks. ‘Course, Tempe she was grown an‘ could do what she please. She sho‘ done sornp‘in‘ when she n~rried Cal. Dat was de meanes‘ Nigger‘. He nail up a board over de gate p05‘ what say, ‘No visitors allowed!. Sho‘ ‘nough didn‘ no visitors want to go to his houses

	‘II don‘ know how corne things got so urtnatchel after de 5ur~‘ render. Niggers got to bein all kin‘ o‘ things what de Lawd didri‘ inten‘ ‘em for, lak bein‘ policemen an‘ all lak dat. it was ecan‘lous~ ‘Course, it was de Yankees what done it. Dey promise to give ever‘body forty acres o‘ Ian‘ an‘ a mule. A lot of ‘em didn‘ have no better sense dan to believe ‘ein. Dey8d go ‘head an‘ do what de Yankees ‘ud tell ‘em. Well, dey didn‘ give ‘em nothin‘, not even a rooster. Didn‘ give ‘emn~}ii~ but trouble.

	“I don‘ know how carne ~v1r. Theodore Sturges‘ brother was a Ya~~kee. But after de Surrender he come to Mer~ree~dian an‘ got to
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