have as much to eat er wear, an‘ de white men folks was all gone.
Den, too, Old Miss cried a lot of de time.

~ ~--~ “De Ya~ees come ‘ro~‘ ft‘ de War an‘ toi‘ us we‘s
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~1~:~- ~	1~	free an‘ we shouted an‘ sang, an‘ had a big celebration fer a few
j	.	days. Den we got to wonderin‘ ‘bout what good it did us. It


	! • ~ didn‘ feel no diffrunt; we all loved our marstei~ an‘ missus an‘ \~ stayed on wid ‘em jes‘ lak nthin‘ had happened. De Yankees tried

	\	tc) git some of de men to vote, too, but not many did ‘cause dey „ : ~J%~3 scared of de Ku Kiuxera. Dey would come at night all dressed

up lak ghosts an‘ scare us all. ~ Je didn‘ lak de Yankees anyway~ L~y Wa‘xît good to us; when dey lef‘ we would allus sing dat

.	leetle song what go lak dis:

t Old Mister Yankee ‚ think he is so grand,

Wid his blue coat tail a draggin‘ on de ground!‘

“I stayed on wid Old Marster afte‘ de surrender, wid

de res‘ ‚ ‘tu i met 3!oshua. JOshua Young was hi$ name an‘ he b‘longedto deYoungs whut lived out at Waverly. I moved out

dar wid him aft~‘ we ~uar‘ied. We didn‘ have no big weddin‘ ‚ cause dere wa ‘nt much money den. We had a preacher ‘ ‚ an‘
	den went along ja‘ lak we had allus been	‘ ied.
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f	“J~osh, he‘s been daid fer a long time now but we

good. life out at Waverly an‘ many a night stood outside de
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had a parlor