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bad, and beds were sorry. ~We went barefooted in a way~. That I mean by that is ‚ that we had shoes part of the time.

. We got one pair ~ shoes a year. When dey wored out we went barefooted. Sometimes we tied them up with strings, and they were so ragged de tracks looked like bird tracks, where we walked in the road. We lIved in log houses daubed with mud. They called ‘em the slaves houses. My old daddy partly raised his chilluns ongwne • Hé caught rabbits, C OOflS ‚ an ‚ pos sums . ~e would w or k al 1 day and hunt at night. We had no holidays • They did not give us~ any Thn as I know. I could eat anything I could git. I tell yôu de truth, slave time wuz slave time wid us. My brother wore his shoes out, ai~ had none all thü winter. His feet cracked open and bled so bad you could track him by the blood • When the Yankees come through, he got shoes.

‘II wuz married in Rockingham. I (on‘t ‘member whe:~. Mr. ~immie Covington, a preacher, a white man, married us. I married James Adams who lived on a plantation near Rockingham. I had a nice blue weddingdress. My husband wuz dressed in kinder light clothes ‚ best I ~ rickerlect • It ‘s been a good long time, since de~n tho‘.

“I shó do ‘member my Marster Torn Covington and his wife ‚ ~mna• De old man wuz the very%ck. He would take

what we~ made and lowanc e us ‚ dat is lowance it out t o n~r