polkiore: Stories From ~c~Slaves
Pa~e2 34.
tuck, bought my maw. Us glad to git back to UnIon. I was a big size gal by dis time and I start to be de waiting ~al in my new ~Larse‘s house fer his wife, Miss Betsy. Miss Betsy had one sister, Miss Nancy Wilson, dat live wid her. Her missus arid old Marster arid dere son, Willie, was all dat I had to wait on, kaise dat was ail dar was in de household.

	“God-~t~..Mighty Is you ~w1ne to fi1l up dat book wid all dat I says? Well, Max~se Harrison didn‘t ‘low paw to see maw ‘cept twice a year-~.~ layin~-.by tinte and Christmas. My paw still ‘longed to Miss Sarah Bartlett. Dat‘s~ ‘zactly why I is ~ot five half..~sisters and one~.~half brother. Paw ßot him- another wife at Miss Sarah‘s. IvIiSS Sarah want young healthy slaves. Maw had jes‘ me arid inn. Ann been daed, Oh, Lord, forty years. Dis all to my recollections.

	“Is you swine to fix fer me and Sago to git some pension? Gaw d naw ‚ so me des e 1. 1 1 bab ie s w hat s ‚ er s u ckin~ de maw ‚ s ~.t it t ie s is ~vvine to ~it dat pensIon. Us ~ail gwine to be daed ‘fo it even conie~ out • You ain‘t gwine to even sho ‚ dat to no GOy ‘ment man; no Lawd, ain‘t never thought I‘s gwine to ~it it.

	?tyes, Honey, 1 was in 1?airfield den, but I tmembers when

crowds o‘ men äome in from de war.All us~ chillu.ns seed mens com~ Ing and us run and tuck o~f .fas ‚ as us ~could fer de nearest woods, kaise us wuz dat scared, dat dém mens swine to git‘ us. Atter dat, us found out dey was our own folks. Us had done tuck arid run from

f ~ dein den.

	“Chile, you ~ come back when Sago here, and us tell you dat book Lull, sho nuff.“


SOtTRCE:“Aunt“ :~runa jeter, 21 Loris Tvvelve, Union, S.C.
.	Interviewer: Caldiell Sims, Union, S.C. (1/4/3?)