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“I forgit to tell you ong. thing dat happen dov~n dere befo‘ I

1 eft • Dere was a powerful r ich family do~n d ere name C o~el].j :. I forg its de fust name. Him brudder tho‘, was sheriff and live inWirinsboro. Dere was a rich Mobley family dat l±ve jinin‘ him, two miles sunrise side of him. One day de Cockrell oows:got out and played thunder wid. Mr. Mobley‘s corn. Mr. Mobley kilt two of de cows. Dat made de Cockrells mad. They too proud to ~o to law ‘bout it; they just bide deir time. Oneday Marse Ed Mobley‘s mules got out, come ~allopin‘ ‘round and stop in de Cockrell wheat field. 111m take his riflé and kill two of them mules. Dat made Mr. Mobley mad but him tQQ proud to ~o to law ‘bout it. ~3e Mobley‘s just bide deir time. ‘Lection corne ‘round for sheriff nex‘ surmer. No Cockrell was ‘lected sheriff dat time. You ask Mr. thigh Wylie ‘bout dat nex‘ time him

~	come to de Boro~ Him tell you all ‘bout it.

:	ttDat call to my mind~another big men, dat live ‘boire ~Thite Oak then, 1 ~ Marse Gregg Cameron. 11e was powerful rich, wid many slaves. Himlak to bar— room and drink. H~a come by marster ‚ s house one da~r, fell öff his hoss and de hoss gallop on up de road. Dat was de fust drunk man .1 ever see. Marster

~-	dldn‘tknow what to do; him come into de house and ask Mistress Mary. Him tell her him didn‘t want to-scandal de chilitin. She say: ‘What would de good Sarna

-	ritan do?‘ Old marster go baok, ~fetch dat ~roanin‘ ‚ cussin‘ ‚ old man and put : ~ to bed, bathe his head, inalce Sam, de driver, hitch up de buggy, make ‚est

go wid him, and. t&~e Marse Gregg home. I n&~ier see or hear tell o~ dat vthite

~	man an~pnore, ‘til one day after freedom when I corne down here to Robinson‘s : Circus. ulm drop dead dat day a~t de parade, when de steam piano come ‘long

~	a *~Q04,jflt ~ t Spect de ‚ citement ‚ steam, and tootin‘ ‚ was too n~ich for him.
~ :	~	~‘Ni~gers r~e7er learn to read and write. It was ‘~inst de law. ~Thite
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~	:C‘XLks ±~ea~‘ they WOuld write deu‘ passes and git ‘way to de free states,
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