Oklahoma Writers‘ Project	-‘3- 32




de porch, go clown in cellar aud~ ciid.n~t tech one blessed thing. Old. Mistress took heart trouble ‚ ~ cause dem Yankees whipped white folks going and. coming.

	I laid. in my bed. a many night scared to death of flu ~1ux Klan. Dey would. come to your house and ask for a th‘iIilC and. no more want a drink than nothing. ~

	After the War, I went to mammy and. my step-‘pappy. She clone married. again, so I left and. went to Warrington and. Hal,Z~ifax, 1‘Torth Carolina, jest for a little while nursing some white chillun. I stayed in Raleigh, where I was born till 7 years ago, when I come to Oklahoma to live with my only living child.. I am the mother of 4 chiflun and. Il grandchillun.

	Then I got married I jumped a broomstick. To git umnarried., all you had. to do was to ji~mp backward.s over the same broomstick.

	LIncoln and. Booker T. Wa3hington was two of the finest men ever lived. Don‘t think nothing of Jeff Davis, tcause he was a traitor. Preed.oin for us was the best thing ever happened.. Prayer is best thing in the world.. Everybody onght to pray, ‚ ~ slaver~