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candy right now; I gwine to see to it d~t you gits back home looking like ‘ j~g afte r al 1 my worriments wi cl ye •

	~	“Ma2TITLy seed dust a flying and de hoes come a-bringing Marse Tom down de road. Mairrny drap everything in the dust and grab her apron to drap a curtsy. 4She ‘low t Gît dat hat off dat head and bow your head ‘ he git hear I‘

	ttllowdy, Lucy, what is you end dat ybungun been, anyhow?‘ ‘Us been to git me a bonnet, Marse Ton~ ‚ and it took all de ten dollars worth of cotton to fetch it back wid.‘ ‘Yes, L~~oy, money does not go far these days, since the Yankees got everything‘ ‘No Sir, No Sir, ~Aarse,t and he rid on, leaving us behind in de d~ist.



	~	Interviewt with ~us Feaster ( C 97), ex-~slave, living at 20 Stutz Ave., Union, 8. C.; interviewer . Caidwell Lims, Union, South Carolina.