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	s~ ‚ Let me nigh ‚ by roy cry,
	~	(~1~	~ Give me Jesus.
~ ~	( You may h~tve all dis ~or1d, L But give me Je sus •‚

	“Singin‘ an‘ shoutin‘, she had ‘ligion all right. She b‘longed to Old Farrett back in Miesouri.

	“‘de did.n‘ git sick much, but in~nimy made yeller top tea(1) fer chills an‘ fever an‘ give U8. ~ Den iffen it didn‘ do no good, 7 Miss Margurite called t~er Dr. Hunt ‘lak she done when her own chullun got sick.

	“Noue of de darkies on dat place could reQd an‘ write. Guess Misa Helen an‘ Miss ~nn would‘a learned nie, but I was jes $0 bad an‘ didn‘ lak to set still no longer‘n I had to.

	“I seen plenty of darkies whupped. Marse George buckled

11W rX1afl~Y down ‘ whupped her ‚ cause she run off • Once when Marse George seen pappy stealin‘ a bucket of ‘1as~es an‘ totin‘ it to a ~:~1 9X1 ‘nother place, he whupped him but didn‘ stake him down. Pappy toi‘ him to whup him but not to stake him - he‘d stan‘ ter it wid‘out de stakin‘ — so I ‘member he looked jes lak he was jurnpin‘ a rope an‘ i‘ ‚ ‘PrayMarser‘ ‚ ever t ime de strop hit ‘im.

“I heered ‘bout some people whut nailed de darkies a tree an‘ beat ‘em but I neber seen none whupped dat




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