Oklahoma Writerst Project	—~~:	96
“That you done?t‘ And. I say, “Nothing. ~	She say she know better and. thout


that time Master John got there. He say, t1~racie, dat little nigger sas~ed me. ~ She say, “Lawsie child, what does ail you?“ I told. them what the Yankee soldier told me to say and Grandma Gracie took my dress and. lift it over ray head and. pins my hands inside, and Lawsie, how she whiDpe& me and I classent holler loud either. I jest said datAde wrong ~ersondn‘~t~-i-7

Vse getting old now and cantt work nomore. I jest sits here and.

thinks about old times. They was good. times. We didntt want to b~e freed.

~7e hated the Yankee soldiers‘. Abe Lincoln wasa good man though, wasn‘t he?

I ~ries to be a good. Christian tcause I wants to go to Heaven when I die.