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give her a trousseau and mine give me a be,~siead, cotton rna-btresß, and two feather pillows. Dat wa~ a mighty happy day and a mighty happy night for de ~ Rose of Sharon‘ * Iler te1I~ young ni4gers ~ ‚ bout it to dis day, and. I just sets and smokes n~r p5.pe and thinks of all de days datam passed and gone and wonder if de nex‘ world gwine to brinj~ us back ~o youth and sbrength

to ‚ j OY it, as us did when Rose ~nd me was young.

~Does I ‘members anything ‘bout patrollers? ‘Deed, I doL Marster


d1d~‘t ‘jeot to his slaves gwine to see women off de pL~q~. I hear him say SO, and I hear him tell more than once dat if he over hear de patrollers a comint ~jd blood hounds ‚ to run to de ~ot end stick his foo~bs in de mud. and de doss wouldntt follow h~im. Lots of run‘ways tried it, I heard, and it proved a SU000SS and I don‘t blame them dogs neither.‘t .