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green corn on de ears in 8e ashes, and. scrape off some and. fry it~ Grind öe az7 CO1‘fl or iound it up and~ make ash cake. Den bile de greens -~ ai]. kinds of greens from out in de woods ~ anö~ chop up de pork and. de deer meat, or de wild turkey meat; maybe all of dein, in de big Dot at de saine time! Fish too, and. de bi~ turtle dat lay out on de banks

	Dey always have a pot full of sofici settin ri~t inside de house, and. anybody eat when dey feel hungry. Anybody come on a visit, always give tern some of de sofki. Ef dey don1t take none de old man git mad, too!

	Then you maire de sofki you ~ound u~ de corn real fine, d~i tour :i~n de water an di‘een it off to git all de little skin from offtn de grain, Den you let de grits soak and den bile it and let it stand, Sometime you put in seine Dounded hickory nut meats. Dat make it real good.,

	I dontt know whar old Master git de cloth for de clothes, less‘n he buy it. Befot I can remember I think he had some slaves dat weave de cloth, but when I was dar he git it at de wagon deDot at Honey Springs, I think. He go dar all de time to sell his corn, and he raise lots of corn, too.

	Dat place was on de big road, what we called de road to Texas, but it go all de way up to de North, too. De traders stop at Honey Springs and. old Master trade corn for what he want. He git some purty checkedy cloth one time, and~ everybody git a dress or a shirt made offtn it. I have dat dress ‘till I git too big for it,

	Everybody dress up fine when dey is a funeral. Dey take me along to mind de baby at t~vo~three funerals, but I dontt lcnow who it is dat die. De Creek shot t~ke on when somebody die!

	Long in de night you wake up and hear a gun go off, way off yonder somewhar, Den it go again, and den again, jest as fast as dey can ram de load.

in.	Dat mean somebody dead. Then somebody die de men go out in dc yard and.