Code No. •	No. Words______
Project ‚ 1~5~(i)	Reduced fi‘om  tords
Prepared by Annie Ruth DaVIS	Rewritten by~
Place, Marion, B.C.	  ~
Date, September 21, 1937	Page 3.     ~ ~


left at night, I was told not to bother it. In breakin corn, sonieti~nes people would make a pile o~ corn in de grass en leave it en den come back en get it in de night. Grandfather told me not to never bother nothin bout peopl~e things.U

	TMDe first work dat I remember bout dom in slavery time, I hold mules for my boss. Drove iiagon f~r Mr. Rogers. If people wanted any haulin done, he told ~e to help de~ en collect for it. 11e never wouldn‘ ax any questions bout what I collected for de haulin. Just let ~e have dat money. I remember I bought cloth dat cost l2~ cents a yard wid de first money I get. Den I bought a girl 10 cents worth öl candy en sent itto her. Rear she stainped it in de ground wid her foot. Girl never even mentiönèd it to me en I sin‘ never bothered wid he r aga in. Di s gi rl en me bout de same age • ~

‚ “Don‘ remember ~uuch bout my first Missus only dat she ~bad a bump on her neck.~ Second Missue was good. to me en just like I tell you, Zonia Rogers was a good man. He hired white men to plow ‚ but he never put nobody ahead of me no t ime • I take dogs en slip out in de woods en hunt rabbits. White man tell on me en my boas am‘ never said notbin bout dis to me yet. Never had no overseer en no driver whe‘ I s~tay.U

	‘Oh, dere was bout two or three hundred acres in de Rogers place. Slaves worked from daylight till dark in d.c winter time. Al~.ys be up fore day cause my boss generally