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	‘l~tr father an ‚ his brothers run away an‘ went to~ ‚ de Yankees. I heard daddy tell ‘bout it. He got sick an ‚ dey shipped him back home to North Carolina. Dey shifted niggers from place to place to keep de Yankees .~ frum takin‘ ‘em. When dere got to be toomany Yankees

	in a place de slaves wus sent out to keep ~m from bein‘ T~ set free. ~~her said onct when she wus carrying the

cows to de pasture dey • b oked down de rai iroad an‘ everything wus blue. A nigger girl by the name of Susan wus with her. gy mother wus named Rilla Pool. Dey said dey jus fell down an‘ de Yankees commenced sayin ‚ ‘Hello Dinah ‚ t ‘Hello Susie.‘ Mother an‘ Susan run. Dey just went flyin‘. When ey crossed a creek inymother lost her shoe in de mud, but she just kept runnin‘ . When she got home she tole her missus de. . yankees were ridin ‚ up de railroad just‘as thick as flies. Den my great-grandmother said, ‘Well I has been prayin‘ long enough l‘or ‘eni now dey is here • ~ ~v~r greatsgrandinother ~ia~ name d Nancy Pool • a‘

	she vms notafraid of nothin‘. I wus a little teency thing vthen she died. ~

~„‚ ~	t%r mother tolé we all about dem thnes dey rode

de horses up to de smoke housean‘ got de meat. De Yankees went to de clothes line an‘ got de clothes an‘