Cape Girarcleau Co .	~ Fo1k1or~. 54 Page 3.

(Con‘t~INT~R~‘I~ ivrru i3I~TTY BRthYN)

o‘ de folke call‘em ‘B1u~3e11y Yank‘s, dey had fine bUe coats an‘ the brace buttone all ovuh the front o‘ ‘em shinin‘ like stahe. Dey call us little cuilud folks‘,1cubs‘, en‘; dey burn down Jonesburg. Yes‘m we aeed Jonesburg down in ashes. Dem ‘Blue-coat‘8‘ wug devils, but de ‘gray-coats wuz wuseer. Dey turn over our bee-gums an‘ dey kill our steers, an‘ carry off our provisions, an‘ whut dey couldn‘t carry off dey ruint. Den dey go roun‘ kuhn‘ all de cullud men an‘ 6ayanettin‘ de chillerra.

	“No, dat wuzzen‘ de ‘gray~coats‘ dom‘ de kuhn‘, dat wuz ‘bushwackers‘ an‘ ‘Ku Klux‘ers‘, dey sho‘ wuz bad. Dey shot my little sistuh in back o‘ her neck an‘ day shot me in de laig. See dat scar, dat whar dey shoot me. An‘ dey kill my gran‘fathuh; dey eho‘ did

	“Gran‘fathuh‘s name wuz ‘Jim Hanover‘ . ‘ale Massa Hanover‘ ‚ he wuz a lawyer, an‘ he educated mah gran‘fathuh tuh be a overseuh. He lived wid‘ “assa Hanover for long time. He wuz a good man, inah gran‘fathuh wuz, an‘ he wuz smart too, an‘ when de war surrenduh, dey make him Mayor of Pie~hatten, an‘ he n~de a good ma~rer too; people all said so, an‘ dey wuz gonna‘ ‘lect him fo‘ foe mo‘ year, an‘ de ‘Ku Klux‘ers said dey wuz len‘ gonna have no ‘nigguh‘ mayor. So dey tuk him out and‘ killed him. Dey wuz awful times. Now you know dat wuzzen right an‘ who‘s de curse fo‘ such things gonna

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	“Ah disamembuh jee‘ when we come tuh Missouri, but it wuz when ‘Hays, ‘an ‘~ihee1er‘

wuz ‘leeted President. Down in Arkansas dey say dey gonna make us all vote Democrat. My step-daddy say he die ‘fore he vote Democrat.

	“Der wuz two white n~n say dey‘d get us to Cape Girdd? Dey had two covered wagons, en‘ dey wuz forty«eight o‘ us cullud folks • ~e put our belongin‘ s in de wagon. Dey


:wuz a coupl‘a oie‘ gramix~t‘s rode in de wagons, an‘ some little feiler‘s, but de rest of ~ US walk ever step o‘ de way. An‘ it rained on us ever‘ step o‘ de way. At night we‘ d

lay down to sleep unduh de wagon so tired we nevuh even know‘d it wuz ram‘.
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