Project 1655 ~	FOLKJßRE	:“
Genevieve W, Chandler		~
Georgetown County, S. C.	}~ge 4





UNCLE SABE RUTLEDGE

( EX—SLA1VE STORY )


and Father tell you story to keep you eye open3 Pick out cotton seed be we job every night in winter tiu~ —~- cept Sundayl When we grow bigger, Mudder make one card. One would spin and then Mudder go to knitting. Night time picking these cotton seed out; day time in winter getting woodi

r, Fall —--~ harvest peanut, peas, ‘tat.rZ

lt ~ member all them Buh Rabbit story~ Mudder tell ‘em End we laugh

and wake up~ They was one bout BithRabb~t and Buh ~~id.gaa~. You know Buh I~,tr~dge the onliest one get the best of Buh RathitZ

ft Buh Rabbit bet Buh E~tridge ( Buh Rabbit think he so sharp you

knows) 11e bet Buh ~trid~e it he fly off domi the road a piece and lit Buh Rabbit can find ‘em. -~- Buh F~tridgs bet him he can‘tJ So Buh P~tridg. take off and fi7 down the road a piece and lit —~- like a I~tridge will do ~ lit and turn up on he back and rake the leaves over him and kiver (cover) hie body all cept he two foots sticking up like etioka

*	Now Buh Rabb it come J He hunt and he hunt and he hunts Couldn ‚ t

find ~•2I and h. get so hot he take off he coat and hang it on Buh P~tridge footel

I, 1~e go on hunting and after *hile he call öut, s ~ Well I can‘t find Buh P~tr1dge* Can‘t Lind Buh F~tridgei ‚ I, And Buh P~tridg. sing out,