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		stones till de watah is jus right for takin‘ de hair off de hogs, lots of ‘em.
		Salt herrin‘ fish in bans cum to our place an we put em in watah to soak an
		den string em on pointed sticks an‘ har~g up to dry so dey wont be so salty.
		A little wuz given us with de ot~ier food.
 ~		     I worked about de place dom‘ chores an takin‘ care of de younger chillun,
~	~	when mammy wuz out in de fields at harvest time, ant I worked in de fields too
.~i-		sometimes. De rnastah sent me sometimes with young recruits goib~ to de army
;:		headquartahs at Charlottesville to take care of de horses an show de way. We
‘~:		all worked hard an‘ when supper ~n~z ovah I wuz too ti~‘ed to do anyththg but go

~	to bed. It wuz jus work, eat an sleep foh most of us, dere ~wuz no time foh
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~.		play. Some of em tried to sing or tell stories or pray but dey soon went to
~		bed. Sometimes I heard some of de stories about hauts and speerits an devils
~		that skeered me so I ran to bed an‘ covered mah head.
~		    Mastah died an‘ den missie, she and a son-in--law took charge of de place.
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~	/ Mah sistah Hannah v~iz sold on de auction block at Riohinon to itlastah Frank

~t. IVaxie (Ma~sie?) an‘ taken to de plantation near Charlottesville. I missed inah ~ sistah terrible an ran away to see her, ran away three times, but ev‘ry time ~: dey cum on horseback an git me ‚~us befoh I got to Maxies. The missie wuz with ~‚. dem on a horse and she ax where I goth‘ an‘ I told her. Mah hands wuz tied

~	oross~ys in front with a big rope so hard it hurt. Den I ~z left on de ~ groun foh along time while missie visited Missie Maxie. Dey start home on

horses pulling de rope tied to nah hands. I had to run or fall down an‘ be dragged on de groun‘. It ~uz terrible. ~Vhen we got home de missie whipped me with a thick hickory switch an‘ she wasn‘t a bit lenient. I wuz whipped ev‘ry time I ran away to see mah sister.

	Jhen dere wuz talk of Yankies cummnt de missie told me to git a box an she filled it with gold an‘ silver, lots of it, she wuz rich, an I dug a hole near de hen house an put in de box an‘ covered it with dirt an‘ smoothed it