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I gonna have money in de bàck of her head when her pick out a man bo marry. ! lier gonna want a man wid muscles on his arms and back and I had them. U~in‘


dat pick end shovel on de railroad just give me what it took to gi-b Mary. Us had teu chillu.n. Some dead, &ome marry arid leave. iv~r wi±e die year befo‘ last. i~aggie is puny, as you see, and us gits ‘long wid de goodness of de Lord and de white folks.

	“1 btlongs to de St. John Methodist Church in Middleslx, part of Winns.~ boro. They was havin‘ a rival (revival) ineetint de night of de earthquake, last day of August, in 1886. Folks had hardly got over de scare of 1881, ‘bout de wàrld commt to an end. It was on Tuesday nig,ht, if I don‘t disremember, t bout 9 o ‚ clock. De preacher was prayin‘ ‚ just after de fust sermon, but him never got to de amen part of dat prayer • Dere come a noise or rumblin‘ ‚ lak

~	far off thunder, seem lak it come from de northwest, then . de church begin to

~	~ rock lak a baby!s cradle. Dere was greatexcitenent. Old J~u4 Melvina holler:

~	tDe world comint to de end‘. De preacher say: ‘Oh, Lord.y‘, and run out of de

.~	pulpit • Everbody rein out de church in de i• V~hen de second quake cox~, ‘bout a minute after de fust, somebody started i~p de cry: ‘De devil under de

..	churchL De devil under de churohL ~ De devil gwine to take de church on‘his back :: • and run away wid de churohL‘ People never stop runnin‘ ‘tu they got to de

I; :	court house in town. Dere bhey, ‘dare de devil done take St. John‘s Church on his back and fly away to hell wid it. Marse H~nry Gailiard xn~kea speech and tell them -what it was and beg them to go home‘. Dat Mr. Skj~ner, de telegraph manat de depol, say de main part of it was way down ‘bout Charleston, too far away for any~body to git hurt‘~here,, ‘less a brick from a chinmey fall oxi sonie.‘ body!~ head. .De fljgïer:S~~‘3tly belie~res what a fine man,, lak Mars~ Henry,:~ell~ them. De crowd git qiueb. Some of them go home but many of them, down in de