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secI~i as dat away now. Dere was allus a Luss in de house iffen I never had no ‘loadyt. Somehow er another I was allus a fani~ ily man and was lucky to git~ in wid xr~ens dat help me on. Never suffered wid help £rwn dese kind. men. tat ‘s de way I got along as well as I has. 01e Missus and Marse learn‘t me to never tell a lie, arid she teached me dat ‘s de way to git along well. I still follows dat.

~	“Up in age, I got in wid cap‘n Perram (Mr. George

Perrin). He was de banker. He say ‘bout me, ‘what I likes ‘bout Gu5, he never tell a~Iie‘.

	“Be~o t dat, I work fer Lawyer Monroe. He had a brother named Jim and one named George, his name Bill. His sister named MISS S311y. Dar I farm fer dem and work on haLf‘u.ns. De Yankees camped on his place whar Mr. Gordon Godshall now got a house. N‘used to go dar rni‘night ev‘y night and ev‘y day. Dey had a pay day de furs ‚ and de fifteenth o±~ de month. Dey ‘s terrible ier‘engans‘ (onions) and eggs. Dey git five marbles and put dein in a ring; put up Lifty cents . Purs ‚ ~nian knocks out de middle-~man (marble) got de game. Dey‘s jes‘ sporty to dat. Never had nothing but greenbacks den. Fifteen cents arid ten cents pieces and twenty-five arid as high as fifty cents pieces was paper in dem t irnes . •

	‘tDey larn‘t us a song: ‘Lf I had oie Abe I4ncoln ai]. over ~dis world, but I know I can‘t whip him; but I fight hirn ~‘till• I die8‘. Dey low‘d, ‘we freeded you ails‘.

	~~nother song was: ‘Salvation free fer all mankind; Salvatiou tree ~er all ~ankind‘. I was glad er all salvation.