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: ~ death. People got use to it but de mules and hosses of old marster seem ! • lak they never did. A train of cars a movin‘ tlong is still de gr&ndest


sight to my eyes in de world • Excite me more now than greyhound busses, ~or airplanes in de sky ever do. -

tu ~ ‘members my young misses end young xnarsters. Dore was-


Marse John; he was kilt in de war. L~arse Jim, dat went to de wars come back, marry, and live right here in Winnsboro. Marse Jim got a grandson dat am in
	de army a saum‘ air—ships. Then dore was i&raeVJilliaxa; he moved off. One
j	of de gals marry a Robertson, I can‘t ‘member her name, tho‘ I help her to
	make mud pies m~my a day and put them on de chicken oàp ‚ in de sun, ~ to dry.
.	Her had two dolic; deir names was Dorcas and Pri&cilia. ~hen de pies got
-	a~, she‘d take them under do big oak tree, fetch out de ~olis and talk a

~.	whole lot of child mother talk ‘bout de pies, to de Dorcas and Priscilla rag ~- dolls. - It was big fun for her tho‘ and I can hear her laugh right now lak
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‚~ ‚. ~lo did when she mince ‘round over them dolls and pies. Dere was some poor


~•;	folks livin‘ close by and. she‘d send me over to ‘vite deir chillun over to

~.-	play wid her. They was name L4arshall• Say they come from Virginny and was

~-:	kinto de highest judge in de land. -They was poor but they was proud. ~is~

~.	tress felt sorr~r for them but theywouldn‘t ‘cept any help from her.~ ~
- ~ --	- - ~ -	“Well,when I git twelve years old, n~iarster give me to his son,

~	~arse Calvin, and give Marse Calvin a plantation dat his son, Homer, live on
	 -now.~ I ‘member now old rnarster‘-s overseer commt to de field; his name was
~	— MoElduff. Him kay: ‘Al, Marse Wiliiax~ saycorne to de house‘. I goes dore


r-	~ de r~iri. ~hen I git dore, him slow: ‘Calvin, Iwants you to take Al,1 ~- - . give hirnto you. ~Al, you take good care of your young marster‘. I always

~	did and W Marse Calvin was livin‘ hetd tall you de same.

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