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honey, they had a big (waving her hands in the air) p1~tation; a whole sec— tion; and de biggest home you aone ever see. We clarkies had. cabins. Jist as clean arid nice., Them Mosleys, they had a grist mill and a ~gin. They like my cla&ly an~i he worked in de mill for them, Deg sure was good. to us. L~y ~nother worked on de place for Mi es ~Tancy. ‚~

	Maimny East, in a neat, voile dress and little pig—tails allover her heal, is a tall, 1i~ht—skinned negro, who admits that she would ~irach rather care for children th~~ attend to the other duties of the little house she ovms ; but the whi te spreads on the beds end t~ spoti e ss Ici tchen is no indication of this fact. She has a passion for the good. old. times when the negroes had security with no responsibility. lier tall, statuesque appearance is in direct c:;ntrast to the present~a,y conception 0±‘ old. southern “mwizaies. ‚~

	“De w&a, honey? Why, when dem Yankees come through our county

.	vnother and. Miss i~TaaaCy and de rest hid de hosses in de swa~nps and h~d other things in the house, but dey got all the cattle and. hogs. Killed tein, but only took -the hams. Killed all de chickens and things, too. But dey didn‘t hurt the house.

	“.After de w&i, everybod,y jist went on working same as ever. Then one day a white inazis come ridin~g throui~h the county ~nd tole us we was free. ~_~_~! Honey, did yot hear that? Vûiy we always had been free. lie dJd&t icaow what he was talking ‘bout. He kept te1lin~g us we was free and dat we ou~htnt to work for no white foLks ‘].ess‘n we got paid. for it. ~ell Miss N8~0~ took care of us then. Vie ~got our, cabin and a piece of ground. for a garden aM a~ sliare of de crops. Daddy worked in de mill. Miss Nancy saw to it that we always had nice clothes too.