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	‘Mr. Will and Miss O~1~ia sho‘ is good to me, and I never calls Mr. Will ‘Jiassa‘ neither, but when they‘s ccmpany I calls hii~ Mr. Will and. ‘round the house byourselves I calls them ‘pappy‘ and ‘i~ammy‘, ‘cause they raises me up from the little girl. I hears old Cleveland done took my mamrn* to Texas ‘gain but I could.n‘ t do nothin‘ ‚ ! cause Miss Olivia wouldn‘ t have much truck with her folks. Once In a while old Polly come. ov•r, but Miss Olivia telle her not to touch me or the otber~s. Old. Polly trys to buy me back from Miss Olivia, and if they had they‘ d. kilt me sho‘ • But Misa Olivia

~ 8~, ‘I‘d. wade in blood as deep as Hell ‘fore I‘d l•t you have Mary.‘ That‘s jes‘ th• very words eh. told. sea.

“Then I hears my papa

I didn‘t know him so well, je.‘

me like mamma being took so far

“One day Mr. Will say,

Law me, I never wcm‘t forget that.

t o the Mi s s ‚ sippi River and pret ty soon here they o aies ‚ the Nat chez *nd the ~clipsi, with smoke aud fir. J..‘ pmirin‘ out of they s~ok.stacks. Thkt old captain on the ‘Clips. starts puttin‘ in bacon meat iz~ the boiler and th, crease je.‘ ec~ies out a—blazin‘ and it beat the Natchiz to piece..

	UI stay. with Mise Olivia till‘63 ~hen Mr. Will set us all free. I was ‘bout 17 year old then or mors. I way I goin‘ find. my m~u~a. MX. Jill !iXSI

~ . me up two papsrs, on. ‘bout a yard long and the other sane aa.llir, ~it both has big~ gold seals what he says is the seal of the State of Missouri. K.

gives me aoniy~ and thys my fa~i tiCkSt to Texas and t.ll~ me th•7 is still
is sGld some place I don‘t know where.. ‘Course, what mairnn~ done told. me, so that didn‘t worry

L~Wa7.


‘Mary, you want to go to the river and ~e
Where we live it ain‘t far
the boat race?t
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