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En so one day dey got a crowd together and dey shoot him. It wuz a senation in de country, but no one was arrested for it.

	“De slaves work on Saturday afternoon and sometimes on Sunday. On Saturday nig}~It de. slaves would slip around to de next plantatidu and have parties and dancin‘ arid so on.

	“When I WUZ ~ a child I played ‚ ~ chicken me craner ‘ and would build little aand houses and call dexa frog dens and we play hidin‘ switches. One of de play songs wuz ‘RockabyM‘ss Susie girl‘ and Sugar Queen in goin‘ south, carrying de young ones in her .

	“1 rexaeraber several riddles • O~e wuz:

~:~T father had a litt le ~ sea 1,.
Sixteen inches high . .
He roaiaed the hills ~ in old Kentuck,
And also in sunny Spain.
If any man can beat dat,
I‘ll try myhand agin.‘

	“One little speech I know:

‚t I tumbled down one day, ~When de water was wide and deep
I place my foot on the de goose‘s back • .
~	And lovely swain de creek.“

tt~Then I w-uz a little boy I wuz follin‘ wid my father‘s scythe. It fell


on my ann and nearly cut if off. Dey got soraethin‘ and bind it up. Eventually after a while, it mended up.

“De inarse give de sick slaves a dose of turpentine, blue mass, carc~iiel

and nuxaber six.	.
A~
“Afte r de surrender my mother to le me dat the ~rse told de s laves dat

dey could buy de place or dey could share de crops wid hini and he wou id . rent dei; d~ land.

	UI married Lizzie Perry, in Perry County Alabama. A preacher married us by the nase of John Jemison. We just played around after de weddin‘ and hed


a good time tu bet\lme oome,and dat wuz very soon wid me.