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the boxes. I never did. know how much they is, but a whole lot.

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	I~ven after the War start č~ ~octor have t]~at money, and. he would excliange money for people. Sometimes he would go out and be gone a long time,

and come back ~rith a lot more money he got from soinewhar.

	Right at the first they made him a high officer in the War and he done doctoring sornewh~r~ at a hospital mOst of the time. But he could go on both sides of the ~Var, and sometime he would come in at night and bring old Mistress pretty little things, and I heard him tell her he got them in the North.

	One ~i~-~y I was fanning hirn and I asked him is he been to the worth and he kick oi~t at zie and tell~ to shut up my black mouth, and. it nearly scared me to death the way he look at me! Nearly every time he been gone and cone in and tell Mistress he been in the I~orth he have a lot more hard money to put away in them boxes, too!

	One evening long come a man and eat supper at the house and stay all night. He was a nice mannered man, and I like to wait on him. The next morning I hear him ask old Doctor what is my name, and old Doctor start in to try to sell me to that man. The man say he cans t biy me ~ cause old Doctor say he want a thousand dollars, and. then old Doctor say he will bind. me out to him.

	I run away from the house and went out to the cabin whar my ma~y and Dappy was ‚ but they tell me to go on back to the Big House ~ cause maybe I am just scared. But about that time old Doctor and the man come and old Doctor make me go with the man. Vie go in his buggy a long ways off to the South, and after he stop two or three night at peoples houses and put me out to stay with the niggers he come to his own house. I ask him how far it is back home and he say about a hundred miles or more, and laugh, and ask me if I know how far that is.