Reporter	340()20	Paulding Co.
	Be±ty Lup~aMI1		District 10	4
			240.-Folklore ~
	Editor		Ex-Slaves
Harold Pugh

Supe rvisor
R.	S. 1)rurri
	/	Ki s ey Mc Kimm.
	~‚t—S1ave	83 years.


	Ah was 1~ohn in Bourbon county, sometime in 1853, in the state of Kaintucky where they raise fine horses and 1eautiful women. Me ~ tfl~y Mammy, Liza ‘n Joe, all be1on~ed to ~itarse Jacob Sandusky the richest man in de county. Pappy, he belonged to de Henry Youn~‘s who ownOEcl de plantation next to us,

	~arse Jacob was good to his s1avcs~ but his son, Clay was mean. Ah reinembah once when he took inah Mammy out and whipped her caiz she forgot to• out cako in his basket, when he went huntin‘. But dat was de last tirrie, caiz de master heerd of it and cussed him lak God has come do~ from Hebijin.

	Besides dom‘ all de cookin.‘ ‘n she was de best in de county, inah ME~alTrny had to heip do de chores and milk fifteen cows. De shacks of all de slaves was set at de edge of a wo:d, an‘ Lawse, honey, us chillun used to hab to go out Tn gatha‘ all de twi~s ‘n brush ‘n sweep it jes‘ lak a floor.

	Den de Massa used to ~o to de court house in Paris ‘n buy sheep an~‘ hogs. Den we ust to help drive dom home. in de ebenin‘ our Man~ny took de old does of Mistress nary ‘n made does b‘ us to wear. Peppy, he cane ovah to see uss every Sunday, through de suimner, but in de winter, we would only s e e him mayb e onc e a month.

	De great day on de plantation, was Christmas when we all got a little present from de Master. De men slaves would cut a whole pile of wood fo‘ de fiah place ‘n pile it on de porch. As long as de whole pile of wood lasted we didn‘t hab to work but whefl. it was gone, our Christmas was ovah. Some— times on Su~uday after noon.s, we would go to de Master‘s honey room ‘n he