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		Aunt Mollie Moss,
# 88 ~&iiburn St,Knoxville,Tenn



	When .~imt Mollie learned that it was to hear herstory of how she was trained in manners and behaviorism, that the visitor hacL come, and to hear

something of her recollections of slave dais, her belligerent mood vanished.
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The satisfied manner ~rJ which she drew up chairs before the fire, t~k~ a pinch

of snuff anci settli‘her ~kirts, indicated that was going to be quite a session. She leaned her elbo~ws on her knees, held her bead between the palms of her hands and fumbled in her cloudy meniory to gather a few facts to relate.

	lanle Andrew,the more intelligent of the two, and. cpi.ick to seize u~on his o~Dortunity,began his reminiscences izi~iediately, saying “Honey, wait now,~‘ when his vcife thought herself well organized to talk, and frecaently broke into his n~.rrative.“Wait untell I gits throu~h.Den jou C&n talk.“ Aunt Mollie would frown and grunt,raunble to herself a~ she roäked back and. forth in her chair. She pulled the two long braids of brown silky h~r, stre~ked ~th white, ~nd

. ~	tied at the ends with cotton strings. 8he spat vigorou.sly into the fire,keot~ iriatterixg ani shuf±‘lir~. her feet,~bich wer~ncaseU in men‘s shoes.

	At~ lest it canie ~int Mollie‘s turn to talk war—titaes.Ua~cIe Andrew,well pleased with his recital, rstired to his~corner by the hearth and listened ffi~~rdlytt after first warning the visitor in a gentle undertöne, that“~ wife she am got r~xu~h me&ry a~ sii~ don hear good.“ Aunt Hollie‘s rambling

reminiscences backed up his statement. She began.

	t, Reckon I mus be ‘bout eighty~-two,three year old. I dwino exactl~~. E:t I knowed whar to find ein, deys some my white folkes lib in die to~t.Seen like ~I can ‘member dey names. I b‘lon~ged to Marster Billy Cain, and was raised on

~‚. his farm in Campbell c ounty, Tennessee. Oh, ~ bout six ‚ seven mile from Jacksboro. .~‚ Wish I could go back dar some tiiue. Am been dar sence me an Moss married an

live e~ght,ten or sone more years in ~ log cabin he btiilt for us ‘~4e was

flz~rried. March 7, &e d.ay atter Cleveland was ‚ lected. presi~-d.ent. In 1885 did
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