of the men, -who eeem to be the leader, stop his hose and ask US boys some questions. We answer as best we can, when he grin at us and pull out some money and give us a nickel a piece.

	“We travel on toward Chapin and meet our manirnies and many other people, some them white. They all seem scared and my inai~miy and Ben‘s n~anmiy and us ‚ turns up the river and camps on the hill ‚ for the night, in the woods. We never sleep much, for it was ‘most as light as day, and the smell of smoke was terrible. We could see people ru~nin‘ in certain ps.rts of Columbia, sometimes. I~ext mornin‘ we look over the city from the bluff and only a few houses was standin‘ and hundreds of tumble-d~own chimneys and the whole tov~n was still smokin‘.

	“I dreams yet ‘b~t that awful time, but I thank God that he has permitted me~ to live ‚ long enoug~i to s e e the o ity rebuilt and it stretch— ing far over thearea where we hid in the trees.~1
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