4.
	“If dey caught a slave wia a book you knowed. it

~	meant a whuppin‘, but de white chiliun teached slaves secretey sometimes. 01e man Jake Rice a slave who belonged

~	to John Rice in N~sh County wus teached by oie John Rice‘s

~	son till he. had a purty good mount of‘ lamm‘ .

	“We did not have prayer meeting at marster‘s plantation or anywliur . Marster Would no t allow dat.

~	(1/ ~ ~then I vms a child we played de g~es of three

~	~‘\\ handed reels ‚ ‘Old Gray Goose ‚ ‚ ‘All Little Gal ‚ All Little

j \. Gai ‚ All Little Gal remember nie ‚ • We took hold of hands

~	~ç an ‚ run round as we sang di s song . .

\‚	“We sang ‘Old Dan Tucker ‚ • Git outen de way ‚ oie Dan

~	f Tucker, Sixteen Hosses in one stable, one jumped out an‘ \~ skined his nable an‘ so on.

	UDr • Mann and Dr • Sid Harris and Dr • Fe e Mann and Dr.

Mathias looked arter u s when we wus sick • Mother and de other grown folks raised herbs dat dey give us too. Chillun took a lot of salts.

•\	~ Ujackson May ~vus too rich to go to de war . Billy

~	wiiu~ didn‘t go, too rich too, I reckons. I remember

.	when dey said niggers had to be free • De papers said if

dey could not be freedom by good men dere. would be fréedom by blood. Dey fighted an‘ I~ept on fightin‘ a long time.