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and all them things. I believes a person loves n~re better, when they feels good. 3: biows from experienoe dat poor folks feels better when they has food

in. deir frame and a few dimes to jingle in deir pockets. I 1a~owe what it means to be a nigger ‚ wid nothin‘ • Many times I ~md to turn every way I lœowed to git a bite to eat. I didn‘t care much *bott~.. clothes. Ithat I needed in sieh t~mee was food to keep my blood warm and gwine ‘long.

	“Bo~~, I don‘t want to think, and I knows I ain‘t gwine4o say~ a word,

	riot a wor~of evil against deir dust lyin‘ Over yonder in deir graveß. I was

old enough to kn~ what de passin‘ ‘way of old marster and missus meant to me. De very stream of lifeblood in me was dryin‘ up, it ‘peared laic. When merster died, dat was !~r fuàt real sorrow. Three years later, missus passed ‘way, dat was de time of my second sorrow. Then, I ‘minded xi~rself of a little tree out dere in de woods in November. Wid erery sharp and cold wind of trouble dat blowed, n~re leaves of

dat tree turnt loose and went to de ground, suet lak they was tryin‘ to follow her.

It seem lek, when she was gone, I was just lak dat tree wid all de leaves gone, naked and friendles s • It took me a long time to gît over all dat ; same way wid. de little tree, it had to pass through winter and wait on spring to see life again.

	“I has faV~d ‘nxst all n~r life and, if I was not s o old, I would be dom‘ dat same thing now. If a poor man wants to enjoy a little freedom, let him go on

	de farm anhW~t for hisself~. It is eho ‚ worbh somethin‘ to be boa ‚ and, on de farm yOu can be bois all you want to, ‘less de men ‘low his wife to hold dat ‘po~t~~nt post. A ~ wid a good wife, one dat pulls witi him, can see and feel some

	pleasure and f~eDienOe some independence. But, bless yoi~r soul, if he gits a

	woman ~what wants to be both husband and wife, fare-yc~u-‘well-end~gâodbye, too, to . . . all ~ ~Love, pleasure, and iud.ependenöe3 ‘cause you sho‘ is gwine to ketch h~l here

	and ?~ ~1O mild climate whenever you ~oes ‘way~. ~ A bad man is worse, b~xt a bad women