FOLK LORE: Polk Tales
Paie 2
Dar WUZ £0‘ 1t‘~ de white folks carriage ~ i is heered Maw tell lt a thousand times, voer and over ~ In de darriage dar wuz Missus; arid de fo‘ chilluns, Jeanette, Clou~h, Winter and Ida. Marse Matt, he rid de horse right by de side o‘ de darriage. Paw -~ de call

~ ~	hirn ‘Obie‘, he d±iv a waggin wid all de little nigger chaps in it dat wuz too little to walk. De big nigger boys and gals dat wuz ~ strong, dey walked. De roads wuz jus.narrow little trails wide enough fer de carriage and de wag~in to git through de lirrrs o‘ de trees. Dey would hit you in de face i~±~in you didn‘t duck ‘em, so maw

~ai1us lowed. Dey had pack mules dat fetcheu along desupplies, f er dey hadto spen‘ de night in de thick woods what nebber~had been cut. All kinds er varmints usedto git atter dem and maw lowed dat dey wuz scared when dey sot camp, and she used to tremble mot den

she slep. When she did sleep, sh~e lowed dat she drempt ~e. awful ~ varrnlnts vvuz a gittin‘ atter her. De missus, she wuz scared at night too. Iviar8e Matt, he lowed he warn‘t one bit scared, but maw sat dat Missus say he jump powerful in hè sleep sometimes.

“Marse Matt had done sot a task of so manumiles fer dem to

travél from sun~up to sundown, but maw lowed dat dey nebber did ~

hardly git dat fer. De pack mules would ~itshort winded, and some~

~time de carriage horses, dey would ~it lame; ~or one o‘ de wag~in .

wheels would take and bread; or it wuz allus some bad lucker ~oll.. ~

erin atter dem. Den Marse Matt, he lowed dat he didn‘t believe in

	no travelin‘ eins, and cause o‘ dat, thaw lowed .dat dey had de worsest kind o‘ luck. Dat is de reason dat de train did not ~it no

. .	further than “Promoter“ County, Miss. (Mr. R~allace really went to Como, Desoto County, Mies., verified by Mrs. J. dough Wallace).



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