Stories rrom Ex-.Slaves (Dick Look-Up)
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.	“Per my first task I had. ~ of an acre in taters, ‘bacca arid watermelons de~. first year. Some o± de boys had ‘Dinders, cantleupes and matises (tomatoes) in dere task. or a ~- acre.
	“De ne~ct year, we made corn and sold it to our master

fer whatever he give us fer it. ~U1 de use we had fer money was to bu~ fish hooks, barlows, juice harpe and marbles. Boys did not use ‘bacca den until dey got twenty-.otie or over. Marse allus carried a roll of money as bi~ as my arm. He would come to de ~uarter on Christmas, July 4th and Thanksgiving, and get up on a stump and call all the chilluns out. Den he would throw money to ‘em. De chilluns git dimes, nickles, quarters, half-.dollars and dollars. At Christmas he would throw ten dollar bills. De parents would take de five and ten dollar bills in char8e, but Liarse made de let de chilluns keep de small change. I tell you, I ain‘t nesrer seed so much money since my raarster been gone. He buried at Fairrorest Presbyterian Cemetery as white folks calls it, but we calls it Cedar Grove.

	tt~hen he died, he had sixteen plantations, you can see dat at de courthouse in Union. ~All his darkies went in a drove of wagons to his bLirying. He was killed by dem Yan~ kees i.ri Virginny. Uncle Wylie Smith, his bodyguard, come back wid his body and told us dat Marse was kilt by a Yankee. Marse Jim was a sentinel, and dat Yankee shot him in his nose, but strange to say, it never tore his face up none. Miss Sara buried him in his unir9rm and she wrapped a Con1~ederate fla€ over de top of de coffin.