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He done broke den . One day my und e ‚ he was tue c olored overseer ‚ I~ie went to Danbury ‚ six i~i1e s from whar we lived at ‚ and he paid $5 for a pound of f coffee. Dat was befo de North whuçped de S~~th, a~id dey had‘n killed-down de money value for de South.~ ~
	u Talk about hard times ! We see ‚ d em in dem days ‚ d	de war and

most specially after de ~urrender.~~o1ks dese days dont know what trouble looks like. We w~s g1~d to eet ash~‘-cakés and. driak parched corn and rye ‘stead o ~offee.I‘ve seed my grandmother ~‚o to de smoke house, aï~d scraDe u.p de dirt whar de meat had drapped, and take ~t to de house fer sea~onin. You see, both armies fed. off‘n de white folks, and deycleaned out dey b~rn~ and cellare aiîd smoke houses when dey corne. One tirne~when de Yanks ~as or~ de way to Au~çiista,I was pickiu~up chips to make ti~e supper fire,when I see‘o em comin‘. I hit it out froia dar and hide behind two little hills down by de big spring. After awhile n~y brother find me and he tell ~ne to co~e on ~backto the house and. see dem white inenß dance. De Yanks kep‘ comin‘ and dey~ eat all ~~ight.By daylight

•t:~cy was through marchin past.“	~ ~

-	t, A~ den côze de ~e~ls . When dey c orne we bad five-thousand bushel of corn, one—hundred head o hogs, three~-hundred arid fifty galons of sirup ‘en

sech. !~xi dey left, they to~ an set fire to evything, to keep it away
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from the Tanks, aimin to starve em out o dat coimtry. Dat‘s wmnat de/done~.
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Some of ~ Rebs wa s mean as the Yanks . And dat Wa s i‘ mean . Some c~led de Yanks ‚ ~ I de Hornets‘ ‚ ‚ C ause ~ dey fig~nt so . Take a Yank an ‘ à fight acrost a bJ~z saw. and it circlin‘ fifty r~iile a minute.~

t‘ Dat time ~ when the Yanks was goin‘ to Augusta, ~ I went to ~.ack my

:: Marster‘s boot,—he‘d giv~us a twocent~peice, big as a quarter— for boot blackin ‚ I say, ‘Marster who is dem soldiers? ‚ A~ he say to rae ‚ ~‘ s de Yankees, come totry to take you ~ from me.‘ ~n I say,~~Looks like to me Marster, ef‘n

d.ey wants to take us d~y~d arsk you fer iis.t Marster laughed and say,‘Bo~r1Dem

~	~ Wid words. Dey does all t4ey tancin‘ wii cannons .
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