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I is heard. dat everybody was scared. Has even heard dat I cried when dein Yankees c orne ‚ but all j knows is j es ‚ what I heard. Folks hears lots arid dey tells it, arid dat‘s jes‘ what I is doñ~ng now -- jes‘ telling what dey told me when I ~ot big. IÎ folks didn‘t never tell nothing no worse, it wouldn‘t make no difference, but often dey takes devilish notions arid tells dat what injures, if anybody believes dem.

	“Aunt Phyllis Jeter ‘low when dem Yankees got to Santuc, she was a weaving jes‘ as hard as she could Lor her white folks. She say dat shestarteL~ to run, but dem Yankees c~xxie in de house and throw‘d away her yarn and took her arid tied. her to a tree. When she hollered, dey whipped her. She say dat dey was drunk, but dey never. burn‘t up

.	nothing in de house. Dey went on singin~, and she got me ‘to playing ~ and. got up de yarn from de dirt in de yard arid cleaned it. De Yankees ~ never bothered us no mo‘, and dey never stayed in Santuc long.

-	- - . *Once when I was a big boy I ~ot drunk and. pawhipped me so

.	hard I never got drunk no mo‘ till I was married., and den I 4iumped on . ~ my old. lady for fun and she hit me wid a b~d slat. Dat knocked me


~	sober and I ‘cided de best thing Lor me to do was let liquor go to

~	de devil. When. I was young I allus walked to Union, Dat ain‘t but ten L miles down de railroad. Den Ï used to walk all over Sarituc and down

~	to Herbert in Pish Dam. Now I is drapoed most all my w~1king. De ~: chilluns travels Last in automobiles, but I jes‘ as lieve walk to

~	Union as to ride in dem things. Wrecks kills you off so quick dat you L. does not have timeto repent.
.~ .	“Walking never has hurt nobody, acid I buys leather and. tacks

~	it on my own shoes, and in dat way it ~ cost me nothing much. loiks goes so east in dem automobiles, and hale de tinie dey ain‘t in

~	no hurry kaise dey ain‘t swine to nothing rio way. I sits on my shoei

~	ja de winter and~ I Waika . W~ien I wants to drap in for a chaw at some
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