we didti‘ work our rows as fas‘ as d~ others, an‘ soi~ietirae he whup us, win3Llen an‘ all. When he did dat some of us most nigh allus

•tell de marster an‘ he would jump on de oberseer an‘ tell him to lay off de wixurnen an‘ chullun. Dey was allus sort of thoughtful

of us an‘ we loved old marster.

	“I heerd tell one time, tho‘, of de hired man (he was

a nigger) àii‘ de oberseer whuppin‘ one of my cousina ‘til she bled; she wa~ ‚jeS~ sebenteen years old an‘ was in de fatably way fer de fust tixue, an‘ couldn‘ work as hard as de re~t. Nex‘ riiawnin‘ afte‘ dat she died. De hired man toi‘ de rest if dey said anything ‘bout it to de marster, he‘d beat dein to death, too, so ever‘body kep‘ quiet an‘ de inarster neber knowed.

	t‘We worked hard in de fiel‘ all day, but when dark coi~ie we would all go to de ~:~:~rt~rs ~.fl‘ afte‘ supper we would set ‘roun‘ an‘ sing an‘ talk. Moe‘ of de time we had good food to eat ‘cause mos‘ of us had our gardens, an‘ de quarters cook would fix what we wanted if we brung it to her. Dunn‘ de last years‘fo de surrender, we didn‘ have much to eat tho‘; an‘ made out de best we could. ~ ~f“•~‘ “De inos‘ tun we had was at our xneetin‘s. We had dem moe‘

I ever‘ Sunday an‘ dey lasted way into de night. De preacher I laked

~	de bee‘ was name Mathew Ewing. He was a comely nigger, black as

~	night ‚ an‘ he ‘ could read out of hi s han ‚ • He neber lamed no