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	I wuz bound out by de court to parse Barley and Miss Sally. I hed to git up fore daylight and look at de clock wid de candle. I held up de candle to de clock, but couldn‘t tell de time. Den dey ask me if de little hand wuz on three mark or four mark. Dey wouldn‘t tell me de time but bye and bye I learned de time myself.

	I asked de mistress to learn me a book and she sez, “Don‘t yo know we not allowed to learn you niggers nothin‘, don‘t ask me dat no more. I‘U kill you if you do,“ I wuzn‘t goin‘ to ask her dat anymore.

	When I wuz ten years old I wuz dom‘ wonoen‘s work. I learned to do a little bit of eberthin‘ • I worked on de farm and I worked in de house. I learned to do a lIttle bit of eberthin‘. On de farm I did eberthin‘ cept plow.

	I lived in a~ nice brick house. En de front wuz de valley

.	It wuz four and three.~ quart er mi le s to ~ Harri sburg and
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three and threemquarter miles to Mt. Crawtord. It wuz a lobley place and a fine farm.

	I used to sleep in a waggoner‘s bed. It wuz like a big bed-comfort, stuffed with wool. I laid. it on de floor and sleep on‘ ~it wid a blanket ober me ‚ when I get up I roll up de bed and push it under de mistress‘s bed.