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	“One story I ‘member ‘bout is de pa‘tridges and de Savior. 1~y pappy allowed de reason pa‘tridges couldn‘t fly over trees was; One day de Savior was a-riding long on a colt to de Mount of Olive Trees, and de drove flowed up, make sich a fuss they scared de colt and he run away wid him. De marster put a cuss on de j~a‘trid~es for dat, and ever since, they can‘t fly over tree tops. You reckon dat so boss? They say they never does fly over treesl

	“I had a good marster arid mistress. When de s~.aves gît sick, they ‘tend to them same as one of their own chillun. Doctor corne quick. They sot up and fan you and keep de flies off. They wouldn‘t let de slaves do dis~, ‘cause certain times you got to take medicine ‘cordin‘ to doctors orders, and a slave might make a mistake. Oh, they was ‘ticular

~ ‘bout sickness. rfl~ey has a hard tiir~ wid some nigger chil].un and dat cast‘ oi]. bottle, I tell youl .

‚t ~One of my young marsters was naine Charlie. After freedom he


marry one of Colonel Province‘s daughters and me arid my mammy moved and lived wid them a while. Then I got married to Wates Kelly, and went to live and work for a white man ‘bove V~hite Oak. His naine was Lang John Cameron, de best white man to work for, but when Sat‘day corne and all de hands paid off, he git dat red hose and turn and gallop to Wirineboro and bring back a passel of low down white trash wid hirn to de diaturbment of all de good colored pereon on de place.

	~ Yas sir, Klu Klux was a terror ~o certain colored persons. I ‘members they come dressed up in white and false faces, pa3sed on to de Richadson place and whipped somebody one night.

	‚I My husban ‚ been dead twelve years • I‘s got thirteen chillun and Minnie is de on].iest one livin‘ wid me in dis house. Her naine Minnie