~in‘ while dey was thar de white driver, he we~it off to sleep an‘ Howard was prowlin‘ ‘roun‘ an‘ we u~1 jes reckin he went on off wid de Yankees.

	“You ~uean hoo doo? ~)at ‚ s whut ra~ pappy done to ~y lflan]Iny. You se&, dey was al].us fussin‘ ‘bout fust one thing, den t nother ‚ ‘ naniiny got mad ‚ caus‘ n pappy slipped her ob ‚ e s out ‘n her ches‘ an‘ taken over to de other gals fer to daiic~ in, an‘ when he brung ‘em back man~iy would see finger Prints on ‘em whar he been tùrnin‘ ‘em ~‘oun‘ an‘ she sho‘ be mad an‘ fight him. She could lick hirn too caus‘n she w~s bigger. One day peppy come in an‘ say to rnaxux~‘iy:

	‚t ‚ Does you want to be bigger an ‚ stronger dan whut you already is‘?‘ An‘ mamy say she did. So nex‘ day he brung her a liti bottle of soxaethin‘ blood red wid soniethin‘ looked like a gourd seed in de middle of it ‚ an‘ he toi ‚ her to drink hit iffen she want to be real strong. Frum de fust drink she fell off. Place of walkin‘ off, she jes etuinbled an‘ got wo‘seran‘ wo‘sar till she plum los‘ her mm‘. Fer a long time, dey had to tie her to a tree. Den afte‘ de War, she let‘ Mr. Davenpo‘t‘s an‘ jes traveled ‘bout over de country. I stayed on wid Miss Margurite he‘pin‘ her jes lak I‘d been dom‘. One day xaa~y come afte‘ me an‘ I run an‘ hid under a pile of quilts an‘ laked to smothered to