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we would be ‘way head of what we ja, and i~ brudders ~ay so, too. But we fond

of o~ir daddy, he so good lOOlciri‘ and all.

	*tWhat do flOat ‘ottin‘ thing I ever see? Well, I think de Red Shirt ca~‘


paign wa8 . You neyer ~ee so nach talkin‘ ‚ fi~htin‘ ‚ and fussin‘ a~ dat. You know de Yankees was still here and they not ‘fraid, and de Hampton folka wa8 not ‘fraid, so it was a case of knock down and drag out moat of de time, it seem to i~ie. Long at de end, dore wa~ two governore; one was in de Wallace House and one in de Capitol. Men went ‘bout town wid deir guns.

	“MaIIW keep busy cooki&, nu38in‘, and washin‘, and us chillun help. You know I had two brudders older than me and a little baby brudder ‘bout a year old, when. fly nsim~ rent a small farm froxa Master Greenfielci, down at de end f Calhoun Street, near de Broad River. We plant cotton. I was then eleven years old and

IV brudders was twelve and thirteen. My ~ai~ help us plant it befo‘ she go to work at de hotel.

‘Shi was home washin‘ ‚ one day, when n~r brudders and 31ø was ohoppin~ cotton.

We chop ‚ tu ‚ bout eleven o ‚ c].o ok dat mornin‘ and we say : ‘When we gits out de rows to de big oak tree we‘ll sit down and rest.‘ We ohillun lak each other and wo joke and work fast ‘tu we conies to de end of de r~s and in de shade of de big oak. Then we sets down, dat is, n~j oldest brudder and me, ‘cause n~r young brudder was a little behind us in hi s ohoppin‘ • As he near de fini sh, his hoe hit somethin‘ hard and it ring. Re rake de dirt ‘way and keep diggin‘ ‚ light lak.

	‘~‘Rhat you dom‘ ‚ ru‘ I say. He s ay s ‚ Tryin ‚ to find out ~hat dis is. It seem to be a pot lid.‘ Th•n we jump up and go to him and all of us grabble dirt ‘way and sho‘ ‘nough it was a pot lid and it was on a pot. We digs it out, thinkin‘ it would be a good thing to take hone. It was 80 heaV. it t.k~ us all to lift it out.