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POLKLOR~~	‘~O(V)‘)A	Edited by ;. • 7G	;~
Spartanbur~, Dist.4	~J~JLJ~~.)t	Elmer Turnage	~•
Sept. 9, 1937


STORIES. OP~.EX SLAVES


	~tMarster Charrier Scaife a..1ayiri~ on his bed of death is ‘bout de first thing dat stuck in my mind. I ftlt sorry ~er evers... body den. Miss Mary Rice Scaife, his ~iie, was mean, She died a year atter. Never ~e1t sad nor glad den; never felt no ways out of de regular way, den.

	“Overseers I recollects was, Irtr. Sara Hughes, Mr. Torn Baldvin, and.Mr. Thitfield Davis. Mr. Balüwin was de best to me4 He had a still...house out in a ~ie1d wtiar 1iquorva~ made. I tote it fer him. We made good corn liquor. Once a week I brung a gallon to de bi~ house to Marster. Once I ~ot happy off‘n it, and ~hen I ~ot dar lots of it i~as gone. He had iae whipped. Dat de last time I ever~ got happy of±*tn Marster‘à jus.

	“Viheri I was a shaver i carried water to de rooms and polish.. ed shoes fer all de white folks in de house. Sot de freshly polished shoes at de door of de bed-.room. Get a nickle fer dat and dance fer joy over it. -Two bit; gals cleaned de rooms up and I helped. carry out things arid take up ashes and fetch wood and build fires early every day. Marster‘s house had five bedrooms arid a setting room. De kitchen and dinin~..room was in de back yard. A covered passage kept dem ~rom ~ettitig wet when dey went to de dining~~room. Marster said he had rather get cold going to eat dan to have de food get cold while it was being Letched to him. So he had de kitchen and dinin~~room jined) but most ~o1ks had de dinin~~room in de big house.