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	“When a nigger died, we had a wake an‘ dat W88 diffrunt too trum whut ‘tie today. Dey neber lef‘ a dead nigger ‘lone in de house, but all de neighbora wae dare an‘ hoped (1). Dey

turned de mit‘tors to de wall ‘cauae dey say once a long time ago, a nigger died an‘ three daya afte‘wards hie people looked in a

minor an‘ dore dey see de dead nigger plain as day in de mirror.

	“At de wake we clapped our han‘s an‘ kop‘ time wid our

:	‘~ feet Walking~Egyj~, dey calls hit - an‘ we chant an‘ hum all \ night ‘till de nigger W8B f~eîa1i~j~,.

\.‘,—~‘ “If we heerd a little old shiverin‘ own (2) we‘d th‘ow salt in de fire an‘ th‘ow a broom ‘cross de do‘ fer folks say dat ‘twas a sign of bad luck, an‘ a charm had tobe worked faeę to keep BUfl2pifl‘ terrible trum h&ppenin‘, an‘ if a bi~ow1 hollered,

we wasn‘t ‘lowed to say one word.

“Fire was Ybo~t de hardes‘ thing fer u. to keep. Den wa‘ni no matches in dem days, an‘ we toted fire frum one plantation to ‘nother when hit burned out. We put live coals in pans or buckets an‘ toted it horś.

	“Sometimes we put heavy waddin‘ in a old gun an‘ shot hit

out into a brush heap an‘ then blowed the sparks ‘UI de fire blazed. 1~ver‘body had flint rocks too, but few nigger‘s could work ‘em an‘



(i)	helped
(2)	screech owl