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for what you done done. ~ä.n, I never ~ot but one whippin‘ from my master. I can tell you just how it come. It was done through takirt‘ care of an old cow. NOVI, in dem tirnés, son, dere was not sates like dere is now. You called dem ‘silo bars‘, and would let down a rail fence called bars to let the cattle in. Understand, listen at it good now. 1~very mornin~ I had to go up to de straw stack and drive de cows to de barn. To milk dem we had to drive dem down a lane to de house for de old :cook woman to milk. As I drote dese cows dey all ~ot through de gate but when de last cow come through she fell over de bottom rail and de master was standin‘ at de window and saw dis happen. De snow was about three feet deep. Now listen good. De old master was crippled and so here he come with a walkin‘ stick in one hand and a cowhide in de other.

	“He said, ‘By God, I‘m goin‘ to learn you, by God, how to let down bars‘. I said, ‘Marster 3im, I let down every bar ‘cept dat one on de bottom‘ . He jux*ped on me end got me down in dat snow till I couldn‘t see him at all. Every time he raised up an‘ come down with dat cowhide it cut through de snow and. hit x~ie. I didn‘t had nutbin‘ on ‘cept an old pair of socks around my feet. You know if you was raised from birth like dis you could. stand. it. It come to me, I.

thought dat i~ I ever get to be a man I would pay de niarster back for