Oode No.	No. Words________
Project, 1~85-.(i)	Reduced f~djTuiords
Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewritten by ~ 6~
Place, Marion. S.O.	___________________ ~
Date, October~26, 1937	~:je—~-—--~-~--   ~—-~


	°Yes,mam, dat been a day. Dein niggers what~been bred on Massa John O. Bethea‘s plantation never know nothin but big livin in dat day en ti~ne. Rerneniber all bout dem days. Re— collect dat dey would give all dey colored people so rnueh of flour for dey Sunday eatin en den dey had a certain ~man on de place to 9ook all de other ration for de niggers in one big pot~ out in old Massa‘s yard. All de niggers~Would go dere to de pot on Sunday en get dey eatin like turnips en couards en meat ~n carry it to dey house en make dey own bread. Den in de week time, dey would come out de field at 12 o‘clock en stand round de pot en eat dey pan of ration en den dey would go back in de field en work. ~ When dey would corne home at n ight ‚ dere would be enough cook up for de in to carry home to last till de next day dinner. Didn‘ eat no breakfastno time. Had meat en greens ~en corn bread en dumplings to eat mostly en won‘ no end to milk. Got plenty of dat en dey was sho glad to g et it • Qose dem what been stay to de whi te folks house would eat to de Missus kitchen. En, my Lord, child, my white folks had de pretties‘t kind. of rice dat dey made right dere ön dey owt~ plantation. Hadplenty rice to last dem from one~ year to de other just like dey bad dey hominy. Den old Massa had a big fish pond en in de summer time when it would get too hot to work, he would allow all his plantation niggers to catch all ~ de pike s en jacks dey wanted en sal t dem down in barrels for de winter. Didn‘ allow nobody to go ‘ bout ~at fish pond but us niggers. Lu another thing, dey wouldn! cure dey