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things out o‘ de garden.

	~	flit was pitiful to see my little mies poor. When I oouldn‘ stan‘ it no longer I walks right up to Old Ute‘ an‘ I says, ‚ Old Mie‘, does you kaow Miss Farrell amt got no cow. ‚ She jus‘ act lak she amt hear‘I me, an‘ put her lips together dat tight. I couldn‘ do nothin‘ but walk off an‘ leave her. Pretty soon she called, ‘Prince!‘ I says, ‘Yes marn.‘ She says, ‘Seem‘ you is 80 concerned ‘bout Miss Farrell not havin‘ no cow, you better take one to ‘er.‘ I foun‘ de~rope an‘ carri.ed de bee‘ cow in de lot to Miss Farrell.

.	“Shortly after dat I lef‘ wid Old Marster to go to North Carolina. rus ‚ ‚ fore de war come on, my marster called me to ‚ im en‘ toi‘ me he was a~.goin‘ to take me to North Carolina to his brother for safe ‘ . Right den I knowed me‘ was wrong. I was a-wishin‘ from de bottom o‘ ~y heart dat de Yankees ‘wJ stay out o‘ us business eilt not git us all ‚ sturbed in de mm.

“Things went on at his brother‘s place ‘bout lak dey done I stayed dere all four years o‘ de war. I~ couldn‘ leave men folks all. went to de war an‘ I had to stay an ‚ rt‘ de
at home. ‘cause de women folks.
	“De day peace was declared wagon loads o‘ people rode all th‘ough de place a—tellin‘ us ‘bout bein‘ free. De old Colonel was killed in battle an‘ his wife had died. De young marster called us in an‘ said lt was all true, dat us was free as he was, en‘ us could leave whenever us got ready. • He said his money warnt no good anymore an‘ he didn‘ have no other to pay us wid.

	“I can‘ t recoflec ‚ it he got new money an‘ paid us or not, but~ •I do ‘member ever‘ las‘ one o‘ us stayed.
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