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after we were supposed to be free. We didn‘t even know we were free. We had to wash the white people‘s feet when they took their shoes off at night - the men
	and women.	/

	“sundays the s laves would wash out their clothe s • It was the only time they had to themse Ive . S ome of the old rn.en worked in their tobaco o patches • We neye r ~ observed Christmas. Wo haver had no holidays ‚ son, no,sirL~. We didn‘t kncw what the word was.

“I never saw any slave funerals. Some slaves died, but I never saw any of
	them buried. I didn‘t see a~y funerals at all.	_

ItThe ~whi te folks would c~e d owe. to the cabins to i~arry the slaves. The master


~.	or mistress v~vuld read a little out of a book.~ Thatts all there was to Lt. tIWe used to play a game caLled fHulgi~lI. We‘d play it in the cabins and some-


times with the white children. We‘d hold hazelnuts in our hands. I‘d say ‘liulgull How many? You‘d guess. If you hit it right, you‘d get them all and it would be your turn to say ‘Hulgul‘ . If ‘ d s ay ‚ Three 1 ~ and I bnly had two ‚ y‘ d have to give me another to make three.

	“The kids nowadays can go right to the store and buy a ball to play w ith . ‘ d have to make a ball out of yarn and put a sock around it for a cover. Six of us would stay on one side of a house and six on the other side. Then wetd, throw the ball cver the roof and say ‚ Catoh&‘ If you‘d catch it you‘d run around to the ather side and hit somebody, then start~ over. We worked so hard we couldntt play long on Sunday evenings.

	“Sohool? We never seen the inside of a schoolhouse. Mistress used to read the Bible to us every Sunday morning.

“We say twci sbngs I still remember.

“I think when I read. that sweet story of old, When Jesus washere a~nong men, ~ H0w he called little children like lambs ~o his fold, i: should like toha~e beeia with them ~then~:. ~ ~ ‚.

~	“Iwishthat 14s• hands had been placed on ~.head,