3tories Prom F~..SIave$ (Gus Pea8ter)
Pace 6
‘fi hollered, ‘Wade, fer de Lawd in Heaven sake, drap dat ‘possum. ‚ He drapped it and we run 1~j]]~ we got home. ~Vade still had dat shovel ~ or was it a axe ~ ‚ ï jest recollects which, anyway, he still had it in his hand; and when I looked at it, it was 8till shining. I pinted ray Cinger at it, kaise I was dat scared dat no -words wouldn‘t come from my mouth. lade throwed it in de wood pile and we run in~de house wid it still shining at us.

	“I stayed dar all night, and I ain‘t never been hunt Ing in no graveyard at night since dat ; and if de good Lawd~ give me sensé I is got now, I ain‘t never gwine to do it no mo‘.

	“It ain‘t no good a...‘sturbi.ngdead~foiks. All befo‘ dat I 18 heardit gits you in bad, andnow since den I knows it.9


Source:	GUS Feaster (col. 97), 20 Stutz Ave., Union, S.C.
Interviewer: Caidwell Sinia, Union, S.C. (7/1/37)
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