Stories From EX-.Slaves (Dick Look...up)
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	“Got to Cherokee Pa11~, wid water so high couldn‘t tell no falls dar. Marster say, ‘Lay her to de right, we can‘t wreck dis boat widout putt ing up a honest man ‘s ±1i~ht . ‚ Den he say, tif u~ does, us‘ll sho go to hell. ‚ We tried to swing her by ~rabb1n~ to a big willow, and wè broke a lot oi~ limbs In trying, but we did swine he~ and she run a 100 yards widout steer1n~, and de boat landed on a little mountain of land1 Marse ‘low, “Ain‘t never seed sech a ocean o±~ water since I was eighteen years old, daran tf I have.‘ He look at me and say, ‘Don‘t know whether Dick scared or not, but he sho is a brave man.‘ I was a~setting my feets on land den, and I look at him and ~low, ‘No sir, I ain‘t skeer‘t, why I could corne over dat little place in my bateau. ‚ Truth is, dat I was so skeer‘t dat I wasn‘t skeert. We lay over a day and a hale. De water had done rece1~ed back some, and we come 27 miles down to Lockhart Shoals in dat one day. De water was still so high dat we run over de shoals widout a tremor. Come sailing on down to Pish Darn and went over d& P1~h Darn and never knowed dat it was dar. Den we landed at de road wid everybody sa±~e but still scar‘t.

	“Dar was two Charlie Gilmores ... one was kil‘t right below Fish Dam. He was hit in de head by a private. When de private was cutting de boat, ~harlie got in de way of de pole aod it hit him i~i one of his temples and he Lell over in de water dead5 When dey got him, wasn‘t narry drap of water in hia lunes, dat‘s how...come us knowed dat he was kil‘t straight out • Some says dat he was hit in de y ‘er (ear ) ‚ but anyway