git UP by. I help dress them and comb deir hair. Then I goes down stairs ~nd put lowers on de breakfas‘ table and lay 1~ Bible by Marse ~~illiarn‘s chair. Then I brirL~ in de breakfas‘. (Table have to ~e set de night befo‘) When everything was on de table, I ring de bell. White folks come down and I wait on de table.

t, After de meal finish, ~ar~e ~iilli~m read de 8ible and pray. I clear

d~ table and help wash de dishes. When dat finish,I cleans up de rooms. Then

I acts as maid and waitress at dinner and supper. I warms up~de girls‘ room,

~rhere they sleep, after supper. Then go home to poppy John ~ud Mauma Anne.

DEt was a happy time ‚ wid happy days ~

t, Dat was a happy fa,nily. Marss ~illiam have no t roub]. e ‚ ‘ce~t onc e

when hirti brudder, Daniel, come over one mornln and closet wid ~t~~arse William. Th€n Marss Daniel go, Max‘se ~Villi~m come in dore where me and de mistress was and say: ‘Tom‘s run away from school‘. (Date one of Marse Daniel‘s boys dat ‘tended school at Mt. Zion, in Winneboro) Her ‘low: ‘What him run away for?‘

-‘Had a fool duel wid a Caidwell boy, ‚ him sv~r. T hear no more ‘bout dat ‘iii Marse Torn come home and then I hear plenty. V1hi~ folks been laughin‘ ‘bout it ever since. Special talk ‘bout it since Marse Tom‘s grandson b‘coms a Unit ed State Judge . Bet Marse Den Hall told you ‘bout it • Want me to go aJ‘iead end t all yc u it my way ? Well ‚ ‘twaa dis a way : Marss Tom and ~ar Be Joe Caldwell fell out ‘bout a piece of soap when they was roomin‘ together at school. Boys crowd ‘round theni and say: ‘Fightit out‘ They hit a lick or two, and Wa3 parted. Then de older boys say dore must be .a duel. ~rse Joe git ce~ couds. Marss Torn git seconds. They load guns wid powder but put no bullets in them. Tell 1~arse Joe ‘bout it but don tj tell *arse Torn, Then they go~own

town, fi~ up a bag of pokeberry juice, and have it inside Marss Joe‘s weetcoat,