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busts de button off my shirt what he holdin‘ on to, ~nd rtms aw~r. I tries t o outran him, and. dat tic1~i~ him. I sho‘ give c~e ground fit s with ray feet s. But dem whippin‘s done inc ~ooc1. Dey break me up fron thievin‘ and. make de rn~n Qfme~ .
	‚	HDe w~r dey dress us 1i~] nigger bo-rs den, ~ey give us a shirt what

coiiie way d~own ‘tween de knees and ankles. When de weather am too cold, dey sometimes give us pants.

	~ white preachers come round and preach. i~y have de tabernacle like a arbor a~d cullu.d folks co~ne from all round to hear de Gospel ‘spounded. Most every farm have de cullud man lamm‘ to preach. I used. to ‘long to de Methodists bu.t now I ‘longs to de Church of Christ.

	“Me,ssa Thomas, he de wholesale merchant and git kilt in New Orleans. A big box of freight goods fall on him, a box ‘bout a yard square on de end and six yards long. t ~ carryint b~k some good foe‘ to make exchangeuient and dey pullin‘ up de box with pulley and rope and it fall on him. De New Orleans folks ~‘y it am de accidentment, but de rest say de rope am cut. One of mass& a old friends was Lawyer Brooks. He us‘~ri. to firmanize de word.

‘~Massa bave two bays, Mr. Jinizn le and Lt ‚ 1 Ide and dey both goes to de w~u‘. ‘ I Ide ‚ he go up in ~kansas and dey say when dat first cannon busts at Li‘l Rock, he starts ruiinin‘ and never stops till he gits back homes I d~~‘t see how he could. do dat, ‘cø~se Li‘i Rock am way far off, but dat what de~ e~ . Den de men cznes to git ‘sertere and dey gits Li ‚ I ~ and. takes him baa. Mr. Jimmie, he didn‘t ~ bre&c de ranks. He stood he ground.

	~Maamy and. dem ten me when war ein over de boss and. he wife, dey calls



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