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	“While de Yankees had everything closed up down in ~arIeston it was hà~rd to git anything in dis country into de 3t0‘ s • Us allus traded at de post (Goshen Hill Trading Post). If I recolleots correctly it was during dis period dat Marse Torn let my Manmiy go up to de post to fetch back her a bonnet.

	“Up dar dey took cotton and corn and anything like dat in trade dat dey could sell to de folks ~ dat was working on de rai lroad bed dat was gwine through dat o ountry (Seaboard Airline), So Mammy took a lot of cotton wid her to de post. She

knowd dat it was gwine to take lots to git dat bonnet. It weren‘t but three and a half miles de short way to de post from our place.

	“I‘s gWiflO long wid her and so I had to wear some


pants to go to d e post a s dat was b 1g doings fer a UI‘ ~ darky

boy to git to go to de trading center. So aunt Abbie fotched me~
.

a pair of new pants dat was dat stiff, dat dey made me feel like

I was all olo8ed up in a jacket, atter being used to only a shirt-‘ taill ~ -

	“Well, it wasn‘t fur and us arriv‘ dar early in de day. Man~i~y said ‘howdy‘ to all de darkies what dar and I look at dem from behind her skirts • I fe lt real curious.~like all in— side. But she ne~r give me no mind what.ever. She never act like she knowd dat I was pulling her dress at all. I seed so rna.ny things dat I never had seed befo‘, not in all my born days. Red si;i cke ~ ‘ candy was a laying right dar fo ‚ my eyes ‚ j‘ like de folks from de big house brung us at Christmas. It was not near Chrjsj~a~ den, kaise it was jest cotton picking time end ~ I wondered how—come dey was having candy in de store fer, now-how.