Ood.e No.	No. Words_______
Project, 1~5-~(i)	Reduced f~OÜi ~~words
Pre~,red by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewrttten by~ ~. 12
Place, Marion, 8.0.	_____________________
Date, December i6, 1937	Pige 2.     ~



my blessed, de yard would be black wid us ohil].~,ui all string tip dere next de door step lookin up in dey eyes. Old. Missus would say, ‘Lint I got a pretty crop of little niggers comm on?‘ De lady, ehe look so please like. Den Miss Ross say, s Do my li ttle nigger s want some bread to gnaw1 on?‘ ~n us chillun say, ‚ Yes‘um, yes sum, we do. ‚ Den she would go in de pantry en see could she find some cook bread to hand us. She had a heap of fine little niggers, too, cause de yard would be black wid all different sizes. Won‘ none of dem big enough to do nothin. No,rnam, dey bad to be over i6 year old fore old Massa would allow dem to work cauae he never want to see his niggers noways stunt up While dey was havin de growin pains . Den when dey was first, grow up, dey would give sonie of dem a house job en would send de others in de field to mind de cowsen de sheep en bring dem up. Wouldn‘ make dem do no heavy work right to~ start wjcj. But ~• de m what was ô Ider ‚ de y had to wo rk in de fie Id. I re okon dey would be workin just bout like dey is now from sunrise in de mornin till sunset in de evenin. „ ~

	“Yes, honey, I been come here under a blessin cause my white folks never didn‘ let dey colored people suffer ~o time. Always when a woman would ~get in de hoüSe ‚ old. Massa would let her leave off woù en stay dere tO de house a month

till she get~ mended in de body way. Den she would hà,ve to carry ~eb~hi~dtS ~ get back in de field to work. Oh, dey had. a