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	“Lots of times Newt and Anderson would tell me and John to come and gît under de steps while oie Marse was eating his supper. When he git up from de table us iil~ niggeri would ailus hear de sliding o‘ his chair, kaize he was sech a big fat man. Den he go into de irtissus room to set by de fire. Dar he would warm his feets and have his Julip. Qulok as lightning

me and John scamper from under de 8 tops and b re ak fer do b ig cape jasamine bushes long de front walk. Dar we hide, till Anderson and Ne‘wt came out a fetching ham biscuit in dey hands fer us. It woüld be so full of gravy, dat sometime degi‘avy would take and run plumb down to d e end e ~y elbow and drap off, ‘fo I could git it~ licked offn my wrists. Dem was de best rations dat a nigger ever had. Y~hen dey had honey on de white folks table, de boys never di~ fail to f etch a honey biscuit widdern.,. Dat was so good dat I jest take one nieasley it bite of honey and melted butter on my~ way to de ~ ~ quarter~ . I would jest taste a leetle. When I git to Memmy den me and Mezrmiy~ set off to ourseif‘s and taste it till lt done ail gone. Us had good times den; ~ike I œv~r is had befô‘ or sinon.

	ttSOO~ atter dat dey sent me and John to de


field to lam drapping. I had to ±Irap peas in every hther hill and ~Iohn had to drap de oorn in de rest. De overseer, Oie man ‘~‘(ash Evans, come dcwn dar to see how us was a doing. Den us got dat skeert dat us got de corn and peas mixed up. He stirted to hit us wid do whip dat he had hung ‘ro~d his waist, Bout dat time Marse Tom rid up. He made de overseer git out‘n dem corn rows and let us ‘lone. After dat us got