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	tIM21 mistress name Nancy. lier was of de quality. Eïer voice was

soft and quiet to de slaves. lier teach us to sin~:

‘Dere is a happy land, far, far ‘way, where brig1~t angels stand, far, far ‘way, OhL How them angels singL

Oh t How them bells ring L

ifl dat happy land, far, far ‘wayL‘

	“Dere -~~ra~ over a thousand acres, inaybë‘two thousand in dat old Fur~

man place. Them sawmill folks ~iire ~3O,OOO.OO for it, la3t year~

	tti~y pappy arid inararny was field hands. L~y brudders and ~isters was:

Liddie, Millie, Ria, ~lla, Harriet, Thomas, Smith, and Liarshall. All dead bu-t me and Liarshall.

lt ~ was fifteen when de Yankees come thru. They took off everything,

ho&S~3s, mules, cows, sheep, goats, turkeys, geese, and chickens. ~Iocs? Yes sah, they kill hogs end take ofV what parts they want and leave other parts bleedin‘ on de yard. Vflien they left, old marster have to go up into Union County for rations.

	tt~at‘~ funny, you wants to set dovm dere tbout riry courtship and weddin‘? ~„

Well, sir, I stay on de old plantation, work for n~r old marster, de do&~or, and fell head over heels in love wid Carrie. Dere was seven more niç:gers a flyin‘

‘round dat sugar lump of a gal in de night time when I breezes in and takes charge

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of de fireside cheer. I knocks one down one night, kick another dut de next night, ~--

and choke de stuffin‘ out of one de nex‘ night. 1 landed de three—leg stool ön de head of de foiu‘th one ‚ de last time. Then de others carry deir ‘fections to some other place than Carrie‘s house. Us have some hard words ‘bout rr~r bad manners, btvt I told her dat I couldn‘t ‘tro]. my feelin‘s wid them fools a settin‘