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~	A GOOD MISTRF3S~

	An interview with Henrietta McCullers,. eighty-~seven years old, of 531 E.~ Davie Street, Raleigh, North Carolina.



	n i ~ borned roun‘ eighty~seben years ago in ~ake County. i~Ïe ant ~y ~j~r~y t longed ter Mis ~ Betsy Adams an ‚ iiiy pappy ‚ longed ter Mr . Nat Jone s . I think dat Marse Nat hacla whole passel o~ slaves, but ~~is‘ Betsy ain‘t had more‘n six or seben. ~

	u Yo‘ ax me iffen Mise pets-y wus good ter us? She wus so good dat I loved her all her life ‘ now dat ~ s daid I loves her in her grave.
	‘t We et de same rations what she et ~ri~ we slept in

de saa~ie kind 01 bed shé slept in~ I knows dat sometimes she‘d have company ~‚ shetd do a heap o‘ extra fixin‘~ but she ain‘t neber fix better fer de company dan fer us.
	n She‘d let us have a co‘n sbuckint ~net a year, an~ o:C~ course, we had a heap of prayer meetin‘s an‘ a ±~ew socials. Shealn‘t wanted herni~gers ter dance case she am such a good ~hrist1an ‚ but sh e let us have c andy pullin ‚ ~ an ‚ s ich.
	“p When de wuck warn‘t pushin ~ she‘d let us go fishint

an‘ s~r4in~th1t an‘aU~ only we ~jist waded, case we ain‘t used

enough ter de *ater~ Yo~ knew dat ni~gers am nat u‘1i~r skeerd o~

water anyhow.	. .. ~


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