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they opened their ears arid the more eager they bec~s for outsite irtfor~ mation. Abe sources were: Girls that waited on the tables, the ladies‘ inside and the drivers ; they would pick up everything they heard and pass it on to the other slaves.

„ ~att%rday afternoons~t Theae were given to women to do the family

washing, ironing, etc ~ ‚ and the men cut fire wood, or worked in the gar~ den, and special truck crops. Christmas? Christrn~e was a holiday, but the fourth of July meant very little to the slave peop1e. ~Daucers? There was lots of dancing. It ~ the pastime of the slave race. The children played shimmy and other games, imitating the white children, sor~tirnes

with the white folks.

	‚* The master and mietrees were very particular about the slave girls. For instance, tney would be driving along and pass a girl walking with a boy. ~aen she ossue to the house she would be sent for and quesœ tionect soi~iething like this : ‘\Yho was that young niaa? Hcw come you With him? Don ‘t you ever let me see yo u With that ape again ~ if you couno~ pick a ~nata better than that I‘ll do the picking for ‘ The explana~ tion: The girl must bre~ good ~trong serviceable children.

4* No ‚ I never saw a ghost ‚ but there was a general belief among

the race in ghosts, spitit3, hatints and conjt&ration. ~ny believe in them yet • I can never forget the fright of the tine my young niaster,Wil~« l~am was going off to the war. The eve~aing before he went ‚ a whippoorvill lighted on the Window sill arid uttered the piaizxti~e ‘whip—poor~ill.~ All the slaves on the place were frightened c~nd awed and predicted bad luek to Vaster *111. He took sick in war and died, ju~at wasted away. ~e was brought back in rags toward the end of the struggle.