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an‘ de niece and nephew went back to oi~m. homes to git married.“ ‘~Te played sich games as marbles; yarn ball; hop, skip, ant

jump; mumble peg an‘ pee wee. • Wunce i‘s asked to speak down to white ohilluns soi~ool an‘ dis is what I speak:

	..~ - ~ .„~ “The cherries are ripe, The cherries are ripe,
•	~ Oh givethe babï one, The baby is too little to chew,
	.	The robin I see up in the tree,
	~\	.	Eating his fill and shaking his bill,
:~) ~	\~	And down his throat they run.“
:~	~c ~‘ Anot1~,er. one:
;1 ~	~ ‘Tobacco is an Indian weed,
	..‚./ ~	And . froni the devil doth proceed
	~ ~	~	It robs the pock&b and burns the clothes
	~	~	And makes a chimney of the nose.‘

“When de slaves gits sick, deir maminies luked af‘er em hut de

~ .-‚-	Marse gived de rem‘dies. Yes,dere wuz dif‘runt kinds, salts, pills, Castah o~l, herb teas, garlic, ‘fedia, suiphali, whiskey, dog wood bark, sahsaparilla an‘ apple root. Sometimes oharms~wuz used.

	I ‘member very wéll de day de Yankees cum. De slaves all cum a runnin‘ an‘ yellin‘: “Yankees is cumin‘, Yankee soijers is comin‘, hurrah“ . Bout ~bwo or three clock, we herd bugles bi in‘ an‘ guns on Taylah Ridge. Kids wuz playin‘ anT all ‘cited. Sumo~e sed:

“Katlirun, suxn±hin‘ awful gwine happen“; an‘ surnone else sez: “De‘ is de Yankees“. De Yankee mens camp on ouah farm an‘ buyed ouah buttah, milk an‘ eggs. Marse Hunt, whut you ail call ‘bilionist an‘ he wuz skeered of suther~ s olj ers an ‚ went out to de wood s an ‚ ~ laid behind a log fo‘ seben weeks and seben days ‚ den he ‚ o ided to go back hoi~e.~ He: sez he had a dream axt‘ prayed, “I h~.d bettah agone, but I prayed. No use let des debils take you, let God take you.“ We tote