Oklahoma Writers‘ Project
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	That religion I ~ot in them way back days is still with me. And. it aintt this pie crust religion such as the folks are getting these days. The old. time religion had. some filling between the crusts, wasn‘t so many empty worös like they is today.

	They was haunt s in them way hack days ‚ t o o . Howt s I know? ~ sause I stayed. ri~ght with the haunts one whole night when I ~et caught in a norther when the Major sends me to another plantation for to bring back some cows he ‚ s bargained for . That was a cold. night and. a fright fui one.

	The blizzard. overtook me and. it was clark on the way. Icome to an old. gin house that everybody said. was the hauntinest place in all the county. :s,~~t I went in account of the cold. and. then when the noises started I was just too scared to move, so there I stood in the corner, ail the time stil morning come.

	There was nobody I could see, but I could hear peoples feet a— tromping and. stomping around. the room and. they go up and. down the stairway like they was running a race.

	Sometimes the noises would be right by my sid.e and. I would feel like a hot wind. passing around me, and. lights would. flash all over the room. No-‘ body could. I see. Then daylight corne I went throngh that d.oor without looking back and. head.ecl for the plantation, forgetting all about the cows that Major Bee sent me for to get.

	When I tells them about the thing, Mary she won‘t let the old. Major scoLi, and. she fixes me up with some warm fooas and. I is all right again. But I stays me away from that gin place, even in the daylight, account of the haunts.

	When the War come along the Major got kinder mean with some of the slaves, but not with me. I never d~ia try to run off, but some of tem did~. One of my brothers tried and~ got caught.