de aigs en axed who put dem dere, I tole her I didu~t do b~it, but she kriowed I did. So she tole me she don‘ keer tbotjt de two ai.gs, but dat she WUZ gwine ter whup me fer tellln1 a lie. Dey don‘t raise chilluns lak dat now,‘1

	~II dofl‘t b‘leeve in Lüggers en Wbites ma‘rin‘ en I WuZ raised by de “quality“ en I, se bi leeves eber one should maIrie in dere culor.“

	t~I think de young peeples ob tec day ez dogs en sluts, en

yer kin guess de rest.“

	1‘One day Ibout 12 o‘olctck we ~~Id de yankee soldiers past our house. De missus hid her fine things, but dey dor~‘ kurn on de place. All us Niggers run ter de cellar en hid. We found de sugah barre is en we scracht t round fer sum sugah ter eat .„

: ~ ttOne time de Ku Klux Klan kum ter ourhouse but dey harm nobody. Guess day wuz looki~I fer sum slave er sum one fu~ ‘nother plantation widout dero marster‘s pass.“

t?1 se‘d a lot ob statrs fall one time but dey neber teched

de groun‘ • En I members seem‘ a comet wid a long bright shinin‘ tail.“

“Atter freedum all de slaves lef‘ de plantation but I

stayed dere a long time. I kum ter Nashville ovah thurty ytars ago en I‘se w~k‘d a~ cook en house,wuk‘r twenty y‘ars fer one party; eleben ytars fer ‘nother, en meriny y‘ars fer ‘nother. I know3 you wont t t leeve me but at one time I w~igh ovuh 400 pounds, but now I‘m notbin‘ but skin en bon‘ . (She weighs at least 200 pounds now). I bekum feeble en cou]~n‘t wuk out, en eber since den Itse btn kinn‘ up a mountain, but now I git he‘ps by de Social Security. ~