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.	not lowed to have prayer meetings. No parties, no candy puflings, nor dances, no aix‘, not a bit. I ‘member goin‘ one time to the white folkses church, no baptizing dat I tm~ber Lawd have mercy, ha! ha! No. De paterofler were on de place at night. You couldn‘t travel without
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	“We got few possums. I have greased my daddy‘s 1~ack after he had been whupped until his back wuz cut to pieces. He had to work jis the same. When we went to oie‘ houses at night ‚ we e ooked our suppers at night ‚ et/~then~ ~ ~. went to bed. If fire wuz out or any work needed dom‘ around de house we had to work on Sundays. They did not g lb us Christmas or any other holidays . . We had e orn shuckings . I herd ~ ein talkin‘ of cuttin de corn pile right squ~e in two. One wud gît on one side, another on the other side and see which out beat. They had brandy at the corn shuckin‘ and I herd S~m talkin‘ about gittin‘ drunk.

	‘t]: ‘member one ‘oman dying. Her name wuz Caroline Coymgton. I didn‘ t go to the grave • i~it you know they had a little cart used with hosses to carry her to the grave, ~jist

‚.	a one horse wagon, jist slipped her in there.

	“Yes, I ‘member a field song. It wuz ‘Oh! come let us go where pleasure never dies. Great fountain gone over‘~. ~ Data one uv •‘em.~~~We had a good doctor when we got ~iick. He come