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	Project, 1~5-~(i)		Reduced ~ word.e
	Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis		Rewritten by
	Place, Marion, S.C.		___________________ 33(3
	Date, October 15, 1937	~	pige 2.


make for de woods fast as he could get dere en tell. dat he lay down wid knots under his head many a night fore he would venture to come out from dat woods. Never hear tel]. of his ox en corn no more neither. Oh, honey, my old Missus was a dear old soul en djc3n‘ none of her colored people have no In md to want to leave de re no t im. „ ‚.

	“We chillun never didu‘ know nothl,n bout no hard times in dat day en time. Seems like de Lord had just open up en f ix de way for us to bave everything we want ~ Oh ‚ honey, ~ we chillun never been harness up in no little bit of place to play like de se chU lun bout here de se days. We had all da big fields en de pret ty woods to wander round en bout en make ~u s playhouse in. Seems like de Lord bad made de lit tie stream8 just right for we ohillun •to play in en all kind of~de prettiest flowers to come up right down side de paths us little feet had. made dere ‚ but dat wasn1 no thin. De re was flowers scatter bou.t everyihe‘ you look in de woods en all kind of birdé en sqüirrels en rabbits en honey, dey was live play things. . Dat how-come we been so satisfy. I here to tell you my old Missue was a dear old soul en we cliii. luxi eho ~d a fine t i~t, comm up. She didn‘ ~ never have her niggers cut up en slashed up ~ no time • She was
good to us en we stuck to her. ~	-

	“In de inornin bout die time, me en my MissuB would take a walk in de ~woods down by de ore ek. I remember I would be de re w Id my mammy en old Mi s sus would say ‚ ‚ Judy ‚ whe ‚ !e et er? I want ber to take a walk wid. me dis mornin. S ~ been. bout five