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dat ~a~ie? (Rubbing his hands; his eyes shining with pleasure) Take another look end make another guess. Seventy-five? You is growint warm but you‘ll have to come again L

	‘~31ess your soul Marse Wood, you know what old ~dder Shifton say? She ‘low dat: ‘In de year 1881, de world to ~i end will surely come‘. I was twenty—five years old~ when all de niggers and most of de white folks was be~ lievin‘ dat old lady and iooldnt for de world to come to an e~.d in 1881. Dat was de year dat I j med de ‚ ~ caus e I wanted to make sure dat if de end d~d come, I‘d be c~ght up in dat rapture dat de white I~ethodist preacher was ~ ~ preachin‘ ‘bout and explainin‘ to my rnarster an~i mistress at deir house on de

‘~iazza dat year.

	Iti j~ eighty‘-one years old. I was born up on de ~ateree River, close


to Great Falls. My marster was Ozmond Barber. i~ mistress was name M~.ss

~	Elizabeth; her de vrife of I~arse Ozmond. i~r pappy was name Jacob. i~r n~~j went by de name of Jemima. They both come from Africa where they was born. They was ‘tice~. ~n a ship, fetch ‘cross de ocean to Virginny, fetchto Winzis— boro by a slave drover ‚ and s old to n~r mar‘ s father ~ Dat what they Stell me. When they was saili& over, dere was five or six hundI‘ed.others all to~ gether down under de first deck of de ship, where they was locked un. They never did talk lak de other slaves, could just~ say a few words, use deir hands, and make signs . They want deir couards ‚ tu±‘nips ‚ and de ir t~ators ‚ raw. They ~ sweet milk so much they steal it . ~ /‚

	~Pappy care nothint ‘bo~t~i~.es.. and wouldn‘t wear shoes in de winter ti~ne or any -birne. It wa~ tgjflst ~ law to bring them over I~ere when they did,

I learn •~ince* But what -is de law no~w~ and what ~s do law then, ~when bright shmy rn~ey was ~u sight‘ Money make de ~~toir~bile go. Money make de train

~	MGUe7 make de mare go, and at dat lzi.me t ~ speet money xnake~ de slaips gQ.