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~ ~	Prom Pleld Notes,	~	Editedby: ~ ~
	District No. 4.	~	Eimer ~urna~e
	~pri1 27, 1937	.


POLK LORE: FOLK TALES (Negro).	~


“Marse Glenn had ~4 slave$ . On Sat ‚ day nicht ~ de darkies would have a little fun on de side. Â way oL~ from de bi~ house,

~	dovvri in de pa$tUr‘ dar wuz about de~bi~es‘ ~u11~~what I i$ ebber ‚ seed. Dat wuz de place whar us collected moe‘ ev‘ry Sa‘day night ~er~

our lii‘ mite o‘ fun frum de white ~o1ks hearin. Sometime ~tWUz
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so dark dat you could not see de £in~ers on yo‘ han‘ when you would

raise it fo‘ your face. Dem wuz sho‘ scheech~ nigkit~ .. &e .~ sbhreech.. .
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lest what I is ever witnessed. in all o‘ my born riatu‘al days. Den of• cose, dar wuz de moon.~light rii~hts when a. darky could see; den he see too much. De pastur‘ wuz big ami de trees made dark spots in it on de brightest nights. All kind o‘ varmints tuck and hollered at ye as ye being ~wirie alori~ to rea~h dat gully. Cose us would ~o

in droves sometime, and den us wouldgo alone to de gully sometime. When us started together, look like us would ~it parted ‘fo we reach de gully all together. One of us see som‘tin and take to run.~ nin‘.Maybe de other darkies in de drove, de ~iouldN‘t see riothin‘. jss den. Dats zactly how it is wid de spirits. De mout (might) sho de‘self to you and not to me. De acts raal queerall de way round.

Dey can take a notionto scare de daylights outtin you when you is wid a gang; or dey kin scare de whol6gan~ den, on de~other hand, dey kin sho de‘~eLf off to jes two or three. It ain‘t never no knowin‘ as to how and when dém thin~s is gwine to come in you~,.. path ri.g~it Th your ve~ éyes; Ipeciallywhen you is partakin‘ in some raal dark secret w1~ar you is planned to act raal sof‘ and ~Viiet like all de way thrott~b.