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his thirteen grown slaves had ter ten‘ ‘bout three hundred acres o‘ land. Course dey mostly planted co‘n, peas an‘ veL;e‘ables.

	lii	can ‘member, do ‚ I wu~ ~ small, dat de s1aves~ wuz ;~thupped ±~er disobeyin‘ an‘ I can think of seberal dat I ~‘ot. I wuz dom‘ housewuck at de time an‘ one of de sil~ ber knives got misplaced. Dey ‚ cused me of misplacin‘ it on purpose, so ï got de wust beatin‘ dat I eber had. I wuz beat den till de hide wuz busted hyar an‘ dar.

	~Ve little ones had some time ter go swimmin‘ an‘ we / did; we also fished, an‘ at night we hunted de possum an~ de coon sometimes. °le Uncle Jeems had some houn‘s what would run possums or coons an‘ he uster take we boys ‘long ~?id him.

	~ti ‘members onct de houn‘s struck a trail an‘ dey tree de coon. Uncle Je eins ‘ s Joe ‚ who wuz bigg~ den I wuz, up de tree. ter ketch de coon an‘ he warns him dat coons 3111 fightin‘ fellers. Joe doan pay much mind he ~am so happy ter git der chanet ter ketch de coon, but when he ketched dat coon he couldn‘t turn loose, an‘ from de way he holler yo‘ would s‘pose dat he ain‘t. neber~ wanted ter ketch a coon. When Joe Barbour wuz. buried ~yar las‘ winter dem coon marks V~~2Z still strong on his arnisan‘ han‘ s an‘ dar wuz ~ de long .scar on his face. ; ~ ~ ‚ . .

: ‚ “i ‘members onot a Yankee ‘oman from New York looks at him an‘ nigh ‚ bout faints. ‚ I reckon‘ ‚ says she ‚ tdat ~