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	He had a four—hoss gin, though mules pulled it. De lint cotton waa packed• ~ a bale and a screw pit. Baggin‘ waa tiny old thing, like old sack8 or

c~uva~ sheetin‘.

	t, My mother jined de Baptis‘ church, and I followed in her foot steps. Everybody ought to b‘long to some church, ‘cause it‘s ‘spectable, and~mem.

bership in de chw‘ch is both a fire end a life insurance. It ‘sures you ‘ginet hell fire, and gives you at death, en eternal estate in Hebben.

~1hat you laughin ‚ at ‘Z It ‚ e de gospel truth I ‘ni giviri ‚ you right now. Wish everybody could hear it and believe it.

	t, My niarster,Joe Howell, went off to de old war. His nigger‘s was so i~vell trained, dat they carried on for him whilst he was gone and dere was

~	no trouble. Everything went on jueg de eazt~ as if he was dere.

	t‘ Pat~a~rÖllers(patrollers) would come often andketch niggera ec~~ time; caught my daddy once and whup him good. Ours was a fine body of slaves and loyal to de mistress and her chillun.

.	s, Dances? Yes air, I can hear them fiddlee and de pattin‘ now. Di5 de way de dance was called: Balance all; sashahey to your partners; swing her ‘round and promenade all; forward on de head; ladies change;‘ end all dat . Then de jigs went on. Believe me)thezn was times!

	t, The main drawback: on Marster Joe ‘a plantation was ‚ de . water on de place was no ‘counts Us had to haul water on a sled, wid a mule, from de Friday place; dat‘s de onliest trouble us had. Sometiv~e us had to tie up fodder and ‘tend to de hay in de field on Sunday.

	‚t I married fust ‚ a girl name Sarah ‚ in 1878. Got three chillun by her. She died. Not good for a man to live alone, de Lard say. I picked otrt another Sarah ‚ but called her Sallie. U. has had nine chillun. Three of dese, Sailor, Tira, and Monroe. Monroe lives on my place and farms