Code No.	No. V~tords_____
Project, i~s5-~(i)	Rethtced from words
Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewritten by
Place, Marion, S.C.	—-—---rn  ~ ~--~-—- 1()
Date, January 12, l93~	Page 3~.



me a ‘tatoe en a piece of bread. I thought I was eatin cake.“ “I never didri‘ work in no field or nothin like dat no

time. When I was a little small girl, I would stay dere home en play bout de yard en nurse my ~arnmy‘ s baby while she was workin in de field. Yes‘wn, old Massa would give her task to pick cotton en hoe cotton en pick peas or somnethin another like dat bout all de time. eon‘ know whe‘ she work all day or no, but I know she would always let up at 12 o‘clock en come to de house to get her somethin to e~t. Can remember dat good as anything. Oh, she would have to cook herself when she come home bein dex‘e wasn‘ none of we chillun big enough to cook nothin. I recollects, I used to get chips en pile dem up for her cause she always been tell m~e, if de baby go to sleep, to get up some chips en put dem on de steps for her to hurry en start fire wid. She would cook us meat en bread like corn hoecake en fry meat de most of de time. Den another time, she would bake a big round loaf like dat en break it in two en give me half en my brother Charlie de~ other part. Would lay a piece of meat on de top of

it.	No‘um, I reckon bout ail de peocle used to cook in de chimney. I know my mammy used ‘to cook in de chimney en I don‘ think she thought nothin bout no stove in dem days. Cose if she did, I know we chullun didn‘ get it.“

	“Yes, Lord, I been married bout 16 years fore my husband died, ~ I had a tolerable good size weddin over dere