Oklahoma Writerst 1‘roject
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to be a young woman — fifteen o r sixteen years old —~ . ant i~iat was old. enough to• get married off in them days. Th~y had. a lot of company just before the War, aM they had. a ~thole bunch of house negroes arounil all the time,

	Old. Mistress di ed. when I was a baby, so I don ~ t remember anything about her, but Young Mistress was a wind.er! She would ri&e horseback nearly all the ‚ and I had. to go along wi th her when I go t big eno~gh. She never did go around the quarters, so I don~t.know nothing much about the negroes Mr. Sack had. for the fields. They all looked. pretty clean aM healthy, though, when they iould corne up to the ~ig Rouse. He fed. them all good. and. they aU liked. hirn.

	He had. so much different kind.s of land. that they co~l& raise anything they wanted, and he had more mules and. horses‘ and. cattle than anybody aro‘und. there. Some of the boys ~mrked. with his fillies all the time, and. he went off to New On eans ever, once in a while wi th hi s race horses. He took hi e daughter but they never took me.

	Some of his land. was in pasture but most of it was all open fields, with just miles and miles of cotton rows. There was a pretty good. strip along one side he called. the “old“ fields. That1s what they Called the land. tha t was wore out and turned back. I t was al 1 growed. i~p in young trees, and~ that~ s where he kept his horses most of the time.

	The first I icnowed. about the War coming on was when Mr. Sack had a ‚ihole bunch of whitefoiks at the Big House at a timction, They didntt talk about anything else all evening and. then the next time they come nearly all their menfoiks waen~t there ~— just the womenfolke. It wa&t very long till Mr. Sack went off to Bouma with some other men, and. pretty soon we knew he was in the War. I &ont remember ever seeing him come