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	~‘Atter ~e wuz dressed he went outside an‘ peeped rount fer a minute den he corned back an‘ got us. We snook out o‘ de house an‘ long de woods path, pappy totin‘ one of de twins an‘ holdin‘ me by de han‘ ant mammy an‘ de udder two.
	I I ~ r e ckons dat I will always ~ member dat walk ‚ wid

de bushes slappin‘ my laigs, de win‘ sighin‘ in de trees, an‘ de hoot owls an‘ whippoorwhils hollerin‘ at each other frurn de big trees. I wuz half asleep an‘ skeered stiff, but In a little while we pass de plum‘ thicket an‘ dar am de mules an‘ wagin.

	“Dar am er quilt in de bottom o~ de wagin, an‘ on dis dey lays we youngins. An‘ pappy an‘ mammy gits on de board cross de front an‘ drives off down de road.
	UI win sleepy but I wuz skeered too, so as we rides tlong I listens ter pa~py an‘~ rn~mny talk. Pappy wuz tellin‘ rnaiw ‘bout de Yankees commt ter dere plantation, burnin‘ de COtfl cribs, de smokehouses ant ‘stroyin‘ eber‘thing. He says right low dat dey done took marster Jordan ter de Rip Raps down nigh Norfolk, art‘ dat he stol‘ de mules an‘ wagin an‘ tsc4ed.

	n,e wuz skeerd of de Yankees ter start wid, but de more we thinks ‘bout us runnin‘ way frum our marsters de skeerder