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An Interview with	. .
	George Bolliriger, (Ex-‘SlR.ve)	.

	“We lived out on de edge o‘ Bollinger County. ‘01e Massa‘s‘name was ‘Da]. Bollinge?. )le Mi8~~‘ we aiwaus called, “Aunt Folly“., Den day wuz young ‘Massa Dave,‘ and young ~isS18 Katie‘ . ~

	My Fappy‘s name wuz ‘Billinger‘ ‘en my mammy wuz ‘Temple‘. Mypappy wuz a smart man. 3 cud read and write. I don‘t know whar he learned it. An‘ he had de power, my daddy Id. He cud break a ‘Iioodoo‘ spell, an‘ he cud tell things dat happened wen he diden see ~-~If one a‘ de folks went to town he cud tell‘em jes everything dey don dere.

	Dey wuz ‘bout 20; mebby 25. slaves onde place, ‘en we all lived in a big, old; log ~

)use. My rnamniy wue a good cook ‘en she cud spin en weave. Shemade all de clothes we

re. Us chilluns never wore no pants-~jes eumpin like a long shirt i~de o‘ home8pun, ~

3 didden know nuthin‘ ‘bout learnin‘. Dey wuz a church, but we didden go much, ‘en we~.. ~

aver had no kind ‘er gatherin‘s. Dey wouldn‘ let de cullered folks congregate-~no,. ehu, :~

~y; even de man over at de store woüldn‘t let mo‘ dan two cullud folks come in at a~time.~ I didden even know what money wuz. Massa‘ had a chest bout three feet long«-up in a

~tt1e attic. It wuz jes‘ full o‘ gold ‘en silver money—— no‘ greenback‘. It wuz covere4
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rer wif rugs, ‘en I never know‘d what wuz in dere~we used to go up der to play sumtimes

I rainy days, an Aunt Polly‘d holler, ‘Ef you don‘ cuin down fum dere de ghosts ‘ul git ye‘. never seed in8ide de chest ‘till dey bury it~dat wuz in war-‘time. Dey put a big hand ~ ~ 4ke under it‘~n de n~n carry it down by de sugar grove de udder side o‘ de grave yard. cud go,right now ‘en 8hOW you de very spot dey bury it. “Dez‘s‘ times we~ens had wuz )~ng fishing, an‘ man~ did we like to fish. Allus we had Saturday atternoon off, ‘lessen ~ war wheat harveat‘er eumthin‘ 8peeiaď like. ‘~ri~ Sunday‘s we allue fished all day long. P

E~ ~ time day. wiaz two hundred sojers cuin to our p1ace-~-iy wuz Southerners, an‘ dEy
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~a nearly starved. Masea‘tole ‘em dey cud kill dat big steer. D~~y shoots him ‘en ‘fore 9

L . . . ~ ~ ~ dey wuz on .I~i; ekinnin‘ him. .‚ By dat time udders had a fire .built~en de men pt~il,

	kflives	‚ en dey cut off hunks; dey p~xte ‚ em on a at ick ‚ en hoi‘ s ‚ em over de fire J~ - 3—‘didden give‘ em t irne t o co 0k tbru fore dey ei it.