FOLKLORE:	Stories Prom Ex..Slaves
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‘Salvation free ~er me‘; got up dat song Lure‘ on a moonlight night, and us sing it all night long, going from house to house.
‚ t?‘Motherless chilluris sees hard times; just ain‘t got

no whar to go; goes i~r om do ‚ o do ‚ ‚ ‚ dat t~ de song dey got up. I doesn‘t know whar it come from. ‘Nother one was: ‘When de suri refuse to 8hine; Lord I ~vants to be in de number, when de sun refuse to 8hine. :E:~ I had a po‘ mother she gone on befo‘, Lord I promise her I would meet her when de saints go marching in.‘ Dat‘s what lots people is still trying to do.

	“We 8ot mud baskets fer cat fish; tie grapevines on dem and put dein in de river. We cotch some wid hooks. I went seining many times arid I set net8; bought 8eins and made de nets. Pull up seIn aster a rain and have seventy...five or eighty fish; some-. times have none. Peter Mi118 made our cat fish stew and cooked ash-.cake bread Ler us to eat it wid. Water~ corne to our necks while we seining and we ~git de fish while we drifting down stream.

	“We wear cotton clothes in hot weather, died wid red dirt or mulberries, or stained wid green wa‘riuts ~-. dat is de hulls. Never had much exchanging oi~ clothes in cold weather. In dat day us haul wood eight or ten feet long. De log houses was daubed wid mud and dey was warm. Pire last all night from dat big wood and de house didn‘t git cold. We had heavy shoes wid wood. soles; heavy cotton socks which was wore de whole year through de cold weather, but we allus go bare~eeted iL.i hot weather. Young boys thirteen to fiiteen years old had de foots measured. Whentracks be seed in de wa‘rnelon patch, dey was called up, and if de measurements‘ oi~ dere tracks fitted de ones in de