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Dat dun tuk any sich notion out my head. Dem patrollahs dun keep us skeered to d~eaf all de time. One, Henry 3~ones, runned off and went cleah t~ Norf sum place an? dey neber did git ‘im. ‘Course we all wuz shure powahful glad ‚ bout his ‚ ‘

	“We‘sé neber ‘lowed. out de cabin at night. But sum times de oldah ‘uns wud sneak out at night an‘tak de hosses an‘ talc a leetle ride. An‘ man it wud bin jes‘ too bad if ol‘ Marss sohn ketched ‘em:

dat wuz shure heaps o‘ fun fer de kids. I ‘member hearin‘ wunce de ol‘ folks talkin‘ ‚ bout de • way one I~arss dun sum black boys dat dun simithin‘ wi‘ong. He jes‘ mak ‘em bite ofT de heads o‘ baccer wurms; inysef I‘d ruther tuk a lickin.“

	“On Christnius Day, we‘d git fiah crackahs an‘ drink brandy, dat wuz all. Dat day wuz only one we didn‘t w,irk. On Saturday evenin‘s we ‚ d mold candles ‚ dat wuzn‘ t so .„

	“De happies‘ time o‘ my life wuz when Cap‘n Tipton, e. Yankee sol-. jer cumed. an‘ tol‘ us de wah wuz ober an‘ we wuz free. Cap‘n.Tipton sez, “Youse de boys we dun dis foah“. We shure didn‘t lose no~ime gittin‘ ‘way; no man.“ ~

	“We went to Lewi8burg an‘ den up to Cha‘leston by wagon an‘ den tuk de guvinent boat, GenrulCrooks~ an‘ it brung us h‘~ah to Ga].lipolis in 1865. Dat Ohjo shoah shure looked prutty.“

	“I‘se shure thax.kful to Mr. Lincoln foah whut he dun foah us folks, but dat Jeff Davis, well I ain‘t sayin‘ whut I‘se thinkin‘.“

	“deis jes‘ like de won‘, der is lots o‘ good an‘ lots o‘ bad in
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