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would. put Uts meat in special d.t~g trenchie and the men would. come erlong and cover it up.“

	.	“The ø1~yS holders in the part of the country I cme from waa men and it was autte off.n that slaves were tied to a whipping stake and whipped with a blackenake until the blood rim down their bodies.“

	.	$1 reme~~ab•ra ~uits eléarly one scene that happened jus‘ afore I laft that there part of ihe country. At the slaveholdere home on the plantation I was at lt wa~ ou~tŒaary for the white folks to ~o to church on Sunday morniri~ and to leave the cook in charge. !~hi. cook had a ha~btt of‘ makin~g oookies and- h~xzding them ou~t to the s1a‘~es b.f ore the folks returned. Now it happened that ~ on one Sunday for some reason er tother the white folks returned before the regular time and ths poor. cook did not have time to get the cookies to the slaves so she just hid.

them in a drawer that iias in a s~‘ring chair.“

	“The white fo1k~ had a parrot that. a1we~vs sat on top of a door in thjs room and when tki~ tniitres~ came in the room the mean old bird.

hollerd oat at the top of hi s voice ‚ I t s in the rocker. I t ‚ s in the rocker ‚ • !‚JieII the Missus fo~tnd the cookies and told her hiij band ~mhere~ ~Ixpon the husband called hi3 man that done the whippi*g and they tied.

the poor cook to the stake and. whipped her till she t*iM.d. Ne~* • ~ morning ti~e parrot was found. dead ~nd s slave ~u accused. becaass he liked the v~oman tb&t had been whippet ths day~ before. They whtppd him then until the blood. ra.n‘4 down his legs. „

	“Spirits? Tessir I beiie~e in them, bat we warnt bothez~ed so muah by thee in them de~ bixt w. ~as by the wild. anlaals. ~