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That his arias had been thrown around me, That i rn±ght have see~i his kind face when he said, ‚ ~
‘Let the little ones conie unto me.‘

	“Yet still to his, ~ootstoo1 in prayer I may go And ask for a share of his love, And that I might earnestly seek Him below And see H~m and hear Hi~n above.

	“Then there was another:

‘t I want to be an angel
And with the angels stand	.
With a crown, upon my forehead
And a harp within my hand.	~

~‘Lnd there before my Saviour ‚
So glorious and so bright,	~ .
	I‘d riiake the sweetest niusic
	And praise hirn day and night.

“~d as soon as we got through singing those songs, we bad to get right out

to work. I was always glad when they called us in the house to Sunday school. it wasthe only o hance t d get to rest.

	“When the slaves got sick, they‘d take and look after themselves. lÀy master had a whole wall of his house for medicine ‚ ju; t like a store • They made their own medicines and pills. My xaistressts brother, Dr. Jim Taylor, was a doctor. They done their own doctoring. I still have the mark where I was vaccinated b~: my master.

	“Peopb was lousy in them days. I always had to pick louses from the heads of the white children. You don‘t find children like that nowadays.

	“My mistress had a little roan horse. She went all through the war on that hor se • Us little kids never went around the big fo iks • We idn‘ t watch folks faces to learn, like children do now. They wouldn‘t let us. All I know about the Civil War was that it was gem‘ on.. I heard talk about killin‘ and so on,

~‘but :t didn‘t know nothin‘ about iti

	“My ixiothe r ~s the last s lave to get off the pia~tation • ~he traviled across the plantatiori~ all night wtth us ch~.]~1ren. It was pouring ~ rain. The white folks surrounded her and took away us cMldren, ansi gave her so ai~y~ minutes to. get off
the ~ plairbation. We iiever saw her again. .$he die d : away from. us.