Folk lore: Folk Tales
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	ttI~aw and paw ailus tole me bout de things what I did on de train. [ wuz so young dat I jus remembers ariythiri~ about dat. She lovved dat she tuck de cooter bones frorn)-riy neck Lore we start~ ect to de train. Maw lowed dat when de train come up,dey wuz so scairt dat we did not want to ~it on till she did. All de ni~gers wuz looked up to when dey ~ot back here, maw lowed, kaise no nig.~ gers in Union had ebber rid on de train ceptiri dem dat he.~ rid fer as Aiston, and dep wuz so few dat you could count dem on your hand.

	“Missus ‘Dandy‘ come ri~:ht back to her paw‘s house. He wuz ~~‘Jr. Clou~h Meng. Missus Dandy‘s little boy, Clou~h, ‘wuz big e~au~h to go to school when dey ~ot back. It wuz Christmas when dey ~ot to 1proinotor‘ County, and it wuz Christmas when us rive back.

	~Vhen ray paw, ‘Obie‘ wuz a courtin, a nigger put a spell on him kaise he was a wantin‘ my maw too. De nigger got a conjure bag and drapped it in de spring what my paw drunk water from. He wuz laid up on a bed o‘ rheumatiz fer six weeks. Dey all knowed dat he wuz donjured. He could not even set up when his victuals wuz fetched to him. So his brother knowed who had put de spell on hirn. He tuck and went to another old conjure man and axed him to take d~t spell off‘n paw. De conjure man lowed to paw‘s brother dat a grapevine growed over de spring, and fer him to go dar and cut a piece of it six feet long and fetch it to his riouse at night. Then he tuck it to de conjure man‘s house, de conjure man, he toak de

vine in a dark place and done somethiri to it -~ de Lawd knows what. Den he tole my paw‘s brother to take it home and give it to paw. .i)e

man what put de spell on paw, I mean de nigger what had it done, he come often and set down by paw and ax him what was auen him.