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boy, Adam, was de driver. Sometime IM go wid hini to meet visitors from de low country at de station, and look after de baggage and sich.

	s Yes air, I doesn‘t deny it, I got many whuppins. Dere‘e not much to a boy, white or black, dat don‘t need a whuppin‘~sonetime on de way up. When you break a wild spirited colt ‚ they make de best hoes or mule. I can do more work today, than most of dese triflin‘, cigaret young mens. You sees me today, as straight as a arrow and like a wild cat on my foots.

	‚t You bet yc‘ life, my white folks W&8 de bestest in de land. They wasn‘t mealy mouthed; they made everybody work, sun to sun, seven deys

in de week. B~zt didn‘t de good Lord set de ‘zarnple? Yes sir, he made us all work, women in de perils of child birth, drappsd cotton seed and corn kernels. Dr. Turnipseed, dat i7as our doctor, ‘low dat light labor lak dat good for them.

	‚I Farm hands got a peck of meal, three pounds bacon, quart of ‘lasses, cup of salt, and two cups inidcLlin‘ flour, no white flour. Had good warm clothes in winter, one~pieçe cotton suit in simmier, and de little niggers went dressed in dčir shirt tails from fust of June, to Lust of October. They sho ‚ did, and was as happy over it as de day was long.

	s, My mother named Enina. Never married to my daddy, ‘cause t}~y didn‘t live on de same place end b ‘long to same master. Daddy b ‘long to de Halls. I have a brother by dis saine ~nuny. Daddy go by de naine of Dinkins. He took up wid another woman after freedom, and my brother and me was shame of him. Us ‘cided tŕ take Jenkins for our name but keep e. ‘D‘ in de middle, so if anything corns up,de ‘D‘ could ‘cite ‘membrance of who us really is. You see what I mean?

	p. Our shoes for de winter was uade on de place, out of leather from our own tan-yard and from our own cow hides • Marat er had a good fish pond.