Oklahoma Writers‘ Project
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kind~ of stuff. All dey ask about was did anybody find a bottle of brandyL Vlhen de War enied u~. most all de niggers stay with old Master and

vrork on de shares ‚ until de land git divided up and. sold off and the young niggers git scattered to town.

	I never did have no truck wid. de Ku iCluckers, but I had to step mightyhigh to keep out~n it! De 5hOt ~~jff Kiuzes never did bother around us tCaUSe we minded ourown business and never give no trouble.

	~Je wouldn‘t let no niggers come ‘round our place talkin~‘bout delegates and voting, and we jest all stayed on t~ie place. Thit dey was som~ low white trash and some devilish niggers made out like dey was Ku Klux ranging ‘round de country stealing hasses and taking things. Old Master said dey wasn‘t shore enough, so I reckon he knowed who the regular ones was.

	These bunches that come around robbing got into our neighborhood and old Master told n~e I better not have my old horse at the house, tcause if I had him they would know nobody had been there stealing and it wouldn‘ t do no good to hide anything tcause they would tear up the place hunting what ~ had. and maine whip or kill ~e.

	“Your old hoss amt no good, Tony, and you better kill him to make

them think you already been raided on, “old Master told me, ~ so I led him o~at
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and knocked him in the head with an axe, and then we hid. all our Yrub and.

waited for the Kiuckers to come most any night, but they never dcl. come. I

borried. a hess to use in the day and took him back home every night for a~

bout a year.

	The niggers kept talking about being free, but they wasn‘t free then and. they aintt now. ~

	Putting them free jest like putting goat hair on a sheep. When it rain ~ de goat come a running and ~ git in de shelter ‚ ~ cause his hair wons j shed.