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fresh, and. one houseb.ad some dead. people in it when old. Mistress poke her head. in it. We gît away from dar, and no mistake!

	By and by we find. a little cabin and. stop and. stay all de time.

I was de only slave by dat time. All de others done slip out and run off.

71e stay dar two year I reckon, tcause we make two little crop of corn. For

meat a man name Mr. Walker wid us jest went out in de woods and shoot de wild.

1~ogs. De woods was full of dem wild hogs, and lots of fish in de holes whar

he could si cken ‚ em wid. buck root and cat cli ~ em wid hi s hands ‚ all we want ed.. I dontt know when de War quit off, and when I git free, bût I

stsyed wid old man Tu.skaya.‘hiniha long time after I was free, I reckon. I was jest a little girl, and he didntt know whar to send me to, anyways.

	One day three men rid. up and talk to de old man awhile in ~nglish talk. Den he called me and tell me to go wid dem to find. my own faxni]$. He j est laugh and slap ~y behind and set me up on de hoes in front of one de men and dey take me off and leave my good checked~y dress at de houses

	Before long we git to dat Canadian river again, and de men tie me on de hoss so I cant t fall off, Dar was all dat water, and. dey amt t no boat, and. dey aintt no bridge, and. we jest swim de hosses. I knowed shoe I was going to be gone dat time, but we gît across.

	When we come to de Ore ek Agency dar i s my pappy and my mainniy o claim me, and I live wid dem in de Verdigris bottom above Fort Gibson till I ~as grown and dey is both dead. Den I marries Anderson Davis at Gibson Station, and. we git our allotments on de Verdigris east of Tulsa ~— kind of south too, close to de Broken Arrow ~ town.

	I knowed. old. man Jim McHenry at dat Broken Arrow town. E~ done some preaching and. was a good old man, I think,