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	~hen de surrender corne dey was Yankees canped aU rro~T de piantatioù an~ Eiilsboro was full of dem. One day a Yankee maris come to de house. He~as young. He come to see if M1~ tPLiah dic5II‘ want to sell her place. Mis‘ ‘Riali stood in de

door an‘ talked to him, she wouldnt let him come on de po‘ch. Sb~e to le him she would starve beTh‘ she would s e 11 one foot of her I‘ to a Yaxike e ‚ an ~ dat he shou1d~i ~ • darken de do ör o f ~ he r houe e.
	‘Bout dat time L~ls‘ Laughter corne down de hail ant stood

behin‘ her mammy. Her hai~ curled ~bôut her head yellow as a dandyiioiï a~ she had ~ a blue dress. Th~ dat sojer seed her he stopped ~ dey looked a±~ looked at each other ‘~tweli ]Vfis~ ‘Riah turned trount . When she done dat Mis‘ Laughter turned an‘ run. up de stairs4

	~fter dat Mis ~ RIah wouldnt let dat chile go no place by hersef. I was her boQ~guard, everywhare she went I had to go too. W~ would go to walk down in de pine woods back of de paster, an‘~ somehow dat Yankee would go to walk in. dem woods too. Every time we seed him he would give inc a piece of money, an‘ ~ when I got back to d~ house I didn‘ tell nothin‘ . Dem one day I b~eard dat sojer tell Mió~ laughter dat he was gwine away. Mis‘ Laughter ~gwi to cry an~ 1 d±dn‘ hear what else dey said

haze dey sèrit ~è dôwa de path. But dat night Mis‘ L~.ughter put lier clothes In her box an‘ made me tote lt down to de paster an r ~4e ~t iii de blackberry patch~ Den. She gtve nte a note an‘