. ~z~elave Stories		~‘ ~ree	33
~(Texas)	.






	‘~The only chu‘ cli I knowed. ‚ bout was when t d. git togéther in de night and have prayer meeti~‘ ~ ~ ‚ We ~ise‘ to go way out in de woods so (~C ~white folks wou.ldn‘ hear nothin‘. Sometimes weed stay nearly all night on Saturday, ~ ca~iee we di&n‘ have to work Sund~.

	“Bout the only thing we could play rae stick hosees.~ I made miles ~nd ailes on the stick hoesee. After the War Massa John have his chillun a big roll of Confederate money and they give us some of it to trade and. buy stick hosses dth~

	t; When Mas sa John t t us we was free ‚ he dnt seem t o mint but Mise :Em, she bawled and. equalled., say her prop‘ ty taken ‘wa~r fron her. After dat, my mammy gathers us togedder and tuk ue to the Dr. Middleton place, out from Jacksonville. Prom thai‘ to de Ragsdaie plane whar i‘s been ever since.

	“Ï wore my first pants when I was fou~teenyeare oie, and they stung ‘till I was ais‘ble. The cloth was store bought ~t m~rny made the pants

at borne. it was what we called dog-hair cloth. Manmiy ~4ade my first shoes, we called ‚ em ~ red r pe‘.


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