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De whipperwill say, ‘cut de claip out de whiteoak~ you better git up to keep frum gitting a whipping. Doves say, ‘who you Is, who you is.‘ Dat‘s a great sign in a dove. Once people wouldn‘t kill doves, oie rnarse shO would whip you if you did. Dove was furs‘ thing dat bring somethIng back to Noah when de flood done gone frwn over de land. When Freedom come, birds change song. One say, ‘don‘t know what you gvvine to do now.‘ ‘n other one low, ‘take a ~!ie~1, take a ~ie~‘ Nig~ers live fat den wid bacon sides. .

	“Mr. Billy Tuompson and Mr. Bill Harris‘ daddy give lieri~s~ in dem days; dese big mens den. Captain Poster clothed de niggers atter Freedom.

	ROle lady Abbie give us mush and milk fer breakfast.

Shorts and seconds was mixed wid de mush; no grease in de morn. Ing a.~tall. Twelve o‘clock brung plenty cow..~peas, meat, bread and water • At night us drunk milk and et bread, black bread made frum de shorts. Jes‘ had meat at twelve o‘clock, ‘course ‘sharpers‘ ‘ud eat meat when rnarster didn‘tkriow. Dey go out an d g it t em a hog ft um a dr ov e of seve nty~f iv e er a hand ‚ e d; dat one never be missed.

	“I is awful to hunt; come to Union to sell my rabbits arid ~possums. Mr. Cohen dat run a brick yard, he buy some. 01e man Dunbar run‘ed a market. He was oie man den. He‘s de beef market man;~ he take all de rabbits and sell ‘em when I couldn‘t git a thins fer ‘em. 01e lady living den, and when I git home she low is I got any ‘loady‘ (something to eat). I come in wid beef and cow heads. Cow foots was de best meat. ~y throws all