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De s laves worked on Saturday afternoons . Dey stay in de cabins on saturday nights and Sundays . ~e worked on New Years day • De massa would give us a,little hard cider on Christmas day. Dey would give a big supper at corn huskiri‘ or cotton pickin‘ and give a little play or
	sornethin‘ uk dat.	~ .

	I remember two weddin~s. Dey bed chicken, and mutton to eat and

corn bread. Dey all ganged round de table. Der wu., milk and butter. I

remember one wedding of de white people. I made de ice cream for dein.
	I remember playin‘ marbles and ba 11 •		_

	Sometimes a racer snak e would run after us ‚ wrap round us and whip us with its tail. The first one I remeuther got after me in de orchard. He wrapped right round nie and whipped nie with his tail.

	Î~y mother took care of de slaves when dey were sick. You had ~ to be awful sick if dey didn‘t make you go out. Dey made der own medicine in those days. We used asafetida and put a piece in a ba~ and hung it round our necks. It wuz eupposed to keep us from ketohin‘ diseases frein anyone else~.

	when freedom cum dey were all shoutin‘ and I run to my mother and asked her what it wuz ai]. bout. De w~ man said you ar~ all free and can go. I remember the Yankee soldier comm1 throu~h the wheat field.

	M7 parents lived very light de firstyear after de war. We livid in a log cabin. De white man helped dem a little. My father went to work inakin‘ charcoa),. Der wuz no school for Negroes and no land that I remember.

	I mar~ied Alice Thompson. She wuz 18 and I wu~ 28. We lied a little weddin‘ down in Bushannon, Virginriy. A Baptist preacher named Shirley married us • Der were bout a dozen at de i‘ • We hed a little dancin‘