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	n Iffen de wuck viu~ pushin‘ we wucked from sunup till dark an‘ Mis‘ i3etsy wucked too. ‘Man, she v~‘us a wuckin~ woman, an‘ she made us wuck too; but I loves her better dan ~ does my own chilluns now ‚ an ‚ dat ‚ s one reason dat I wants ter go ter heaben. Ail my life when I done a bad thing I think ‘bout ïvIis‘ ~3etsy‘ ~ teachin‘s an~ I repents. ‚

	n ~ plowed an.‘ dug ditches an~ cleaned new grourit; ~it hard wuck am‘ t neber hurted me yit. De master wus ~oo puny to ~vuck, an‘ I often thinks dat ma~rbe he married L.is‘ ~3etsï to look atter him. Dey only had one mans Uncle Lâose, ar~‘ so, of course, he had to have some help ter ten ‚ ‚ bout a hundert acres.

	n i~1ost of our lan‘ wus ~l~nted in feed stuff fer us an‘ de cattle. An‘so we raised ever‘thing but de coffee. Sometimes we drunk Japonica tea, an~ done without de coffee.

	‚t on Sunday‘s yot& should o‘ seen us in our sunday best goin‘ ter church ‘hind de missus coach, wid oie Uncle Mose high on de box. We can‘t read de hymns eben iffen we had a book ‚ cause we ~ain ‚ t ‚ lowed ter have no books ‚ but we sung jist de same.

	‘t At Christmas time we had a party at de big ‘house . ~

Mi~•‘ Betsy had sabed a bushel er so o‘ de latest apples an‘ she rn&Ie a big di sh of las ~e s candy ant we p opped pop e orn an‘ wus ~ happy . it betsy always give us some e lothes ant we had a