Project #1655
Stiles M. Scruggs
Co1U~gIbia, S. C.	~	390352 ‚ .


i~~HE POT OF GOLD.



	Martha Riohardsou, ~ho tells this story, liTes at 924 Senate Street, Co1um~bia, S. C. lier father was an Indian and her mother a niilatto. 8h~ was born in Columbia, tn 1860 and was live years old, when General W. T. Sher~an‘s i~ederal troops captured ahud burned the city ~ in 1865.

	“When I gits big ‚ nough to pick up chips for de ooolc stove ‚ we was livin‘ In de rear of Da~iiel Gardner ‚ e hoi~ ‚ on Main Street ‚ and n~ n~mi~ was workin‘ as oxie of de oooks at de Columbia Botel. De hotel was run by ~ster Lowx‘anee, where de Loriok & Lowrdoe store is nov.

	~My dadd~y, like de general run of Indians, love to hunt but de ga~~ not bring ~ioh cash in. My mai~ often give him some change (money) and he riot work imioh but he always good to i~i~ and she lore him and not fuss at him, nnoh. I soon learn dat it it had not been for nmnun~, we wouldn‘ t a had ~ch to eat and wear. We go ‘lone lak dat for a good while and i~ n~iai~ have friends ‘nough dat ehe seldom had to ask for a job.

	~De game ~as SO soaroe dat z~j daddy sometimes n~ke a little ~ney a show‘ in‘ ‘people how to ~1ce I~n&tan medicine ‚ dat w~a good for many oomplaiiits ‚ how to coirer deir houses, and how to kill deir hogs, ‘cordin‘ to de x~on. fie tell us many tiiaes ‘bO~It de great Catawba Indians, who i~ke all deir own medicines and kill bears and dress in deir skins, after feastin‘ on deir flesh. H. was

a good. talker.

	RYOU kflOW~, I sois so iaioh ‘ekinxpin‘, to make ends meet at home, as we go

tlo~ dia way, dat I has never ~rried. My m~iw~ tell mes ‘&noy, you a pretty

child. You grow ~ip and ~rry a fine, lovin‘ man 1e3c your daddy ~ and be happy.‘

I ICiMa eiii]:e b~ I thinks a lot. If ~j d&ddy had worked and saved lek i~y ~