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arid John Glenn. Dey made de poles to suit de job. Some of de poles was longer dan others was. Some o±~ dem was broad and flat at de end; others was blunt and others was ruade sharp. When de Broad River rose, sometimes de waves got higher dan my house dar. Den it was a real job to handle one of Marse‘s boats. Pact is, it was five men‘s jobs. Wid water a..~roaring arid a foaming and a-swine round you like a mad tiger a...blowing his breath, so dat you was feervd (scared) dat all your marster~ cotton gwine to be spilt, youhad to be up and a-doing some~ thing real fast. Sometimes dat river take your boat round arid round lIke a merry~go~..round, ‘tu you ~it so swimrny~headed dat you have to puke up all de victuals dat you done eat. Den it swin~g from dat whirl into a swift stream dat take you a ruile a minute, yes sir, a mile a minute fer I don‘t know how ter.

	~	“Den you see a tree a-~coming right straight to you. If de boat hit dat tree, you knowed dat you be busted into a million pieces. You had to git your poles and somebody had to let a pole hit dat tree ahead of de boat. Of course dat change de boat‘s course from de tree and you went sailing on by. Once in a freshet us raced twenty.-five miles in twenty.-five minutes. Iviarse Jim was wid us dat time, and he tole us so by his watch. De water a~jumpin~ real high and dat boat a-..jurnpin~ still wusser ruade me so skeer‘t dat I just shake in my knees and ai]. de way up and down my legs.

	“On dis trip we had went plumb up in North Carolina. Us never had been dat fer up befo‘. I ain‘t never seed No~‘th carolina beTh‘; neither is I seed. lt since. Broad River was real