.~	Folk Lore~ Polk Tale3	•	Paie 3 7~3 ~

It took dérn fo‘ weeks to reach T?Promotor~. Dar dey set up de new home. Maw lowed dat dey Wuz called tender feeted poineers by dein what had~ot dar ahead of dem. Peers like maw lowed dat dey stayed dar five year. Anyway de fUs year, a lot O‘ de ni~gers tuck all man-~ ner o‘ ailirnents and dey died. De biissus, she kept full o‘ cold in dat lo~ house. Dey had had a fine house here, you nos de house what

•LIiss Roberta Wallace libs in, well, dat wuz de one, cepin it wuz riot as eine as iviiss Roberta ~ot it now. Anyway, rn~ and paw, dey didn‘t like lt no better dan missus., cepin dey wuz skeered to speak dere minds. Pinally, de iviarster, he tuck down sick, and In spite o‘

	all dat Missus do~fer him, maw lowedhe kept a ~rowin‘ iorse~ and w~rser till he t~ckand died one~bad night. Mis~us, ~Dandy~d~ :~arster -allus called her, had ~ot so broke down wid worry and ~

sorrow, dat-she wuz nigh to daath‘s door,herself, when dé Marster
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	died, ~xnaw said. Per dat reason, dey kept it from her ~ two weeks.
Dey :thou~ht dat she wuz gwine to háve~ de rieumoriia, like him, but~ -
S	she started to gittin‘ well Lore she tuck de neurnonia. I~aw said dat	J.
  :	dey used all o‘ de oie ni~er remedies ort de Ivilseus dat dey knowed	1;
	and~e‘r dat reason dey brung her through. Maw Is told me dem remedies
but I ~ so- oie now, dat I jus remembers dem. If Bob wuz at hisseif
                            ~i	he could give you some. You come by hère some day whén de moon is
	right and den. Bob‘ll be In his right mind to tell you some o‘ dem.
	         “De Mlssus, she come back powe.r~ul Slow, arid it WUZ ~ni~

~nigh Thanksgiv Ing when she ~ot strong . It wuz s~ô cold dat she used to low how she wish ~er her paws big warm fire, and d~ Carolina sunshine. So one bad morning, she took and gOt a letter fromher

--	T~~i Uniorta He ~axed her to Letch us all back here to Unio~n. ~
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