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nid, dat would be rr~r master today, ‘cause him lak hound dogs and I lak a hound doc. flat kind of breed got a good nose and make good ‘possum dog.

Marster Jim t~eÏl me one time, dat de first dog sprung from a wolf, and ~

fust dog was a. hound dog. Dat out dat fust clog, (must to a been a bitch, don‘t you reckon?) come all iogs. I follow his talk wid belief, ‘bout de setters, pointers, and blood hounds, -even to de Lices, but it strain dat belief ~vi~en It git to de little useless hairy pupde ladiesrlead ‘rot~d vrid a silver collar and a shit chain~ Well, you don‘t care to hear anymore ‘bout dat? V~hat is de question?

	ttMy master at de fust, was L~arster Jim ~3tewart and my mistress was


his wife, Utistress Clara. They have two chillun. I tmember Marster Jim and Lass Lizzie; they live in a fine house b~fo‘ de war, trcund yonder dosé to

~ Zj~~ College. ~y mother was de cook end I was de house boy. They~ had a big plantation ‘bout two miles out, sorta southwest of Boro, I mean Winnsboro, of course, but de co~ntry people still callit Iioro.

	l‘on dat plantation was r~any two—room houses, brick chimneys in de middle, for de p1é~ntation slaves. In de growint season I gowid marster ever~r~day, not tQ drive, too small for dat, just to hold de hoss, when him git out and then I run errands for him, ‘rounc3 de house and in de fields.

-	j “My mother had another child, Willie Finch. A colored man name of

Finch is his father but her and de white folks never tell me who my father was. I have to find out dat for i~‘aeif, after freedom, when I was lookin‘ ‘ro~d for a name. • From all I hear atid ‘pear in de lookin‘ blass, I see I

was he~lfwhite for sure, and from de things I hear, I conclude I was a Rob~ ertsox~ which have never been denied. ]~&aybe it best just to give no front

: fl~*~S . Though half a ni~er, I have tried to I ive up to dat name ‚ never took



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