~Ex-e1ave Stori..	p~• Two	26
( Texas)





	“You see, Vs ‘bout 10 year old. and. I be1oz~gs to Miss Olivia, what was that old. Polly‘e d~ighter, end one day old. Polly devil comes to where Miss Olivia lives after she marries, and trys to give me a lick out in th. yard, and. I pick. up a rock ‘bout as big as half yc~ir fist and hits her rigbt in the eye and. busted the eyeball, and till. her that‘s for ~aippin‘ my baby sister to death. !o~i could hear her holler for five miles, bu~t Miss Olivia, when I tells her, says, “EslÏ, I guess gamma has larnt her lesson at last.~ But that old flhly was mean like her hueban‘, old b1evelar~d, till she die, end I hopes they is burnin~1 in torment now,

	“I dcii‘t tmember 1bout the start of things so much, ‘cspt what Mise Olivia and my a~ma, her name was Siby, tells me. ~ Course, it‘s powerful cold in winter times end the farms was lots different from down here. ~ calls ~sm plantations down here but up at St. Lou~is they was jes ‚ called farms ‚ and that ‚ a what they as, ‚ cause w. raises wheat and barley and rye and Oats and. corn and fruit.

	“The houses was builded with brick and heavy wood, too, ~ca~se ~ cold ~i~p there, and we has to wear the warm clothes and they‘s wows on the place, and we works at it in the evsnin‘s.

	PØ]4 Cleveland takes a lot of his slaves what was in ‘custom1 and~ brings ‘em toTexas to seU. You kitow, he w~n‘t epoaed to do that, ‘cause when yott‘s la eustc~‘, that‘s ‘caus. he borrowed money on yoi~i, and you‘s not sposed to leaw. the place till he paid up. Coarse, old.

•Clewsland jes‘ tells the one he owed the money to, you had run off, or

squirmed out some wey, h. was that mean.
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