Ex-‘slave Stories	Page Five
(Texas)








	UI ‘nAgin~s I seed ghostles two, three times. I used to range round at nighttime. I rides through a old slavery field end de folks tell me, ‘Harry, you better be care~.tl ~win~ ‘cross dat old. field, They‘s things dere what makes mulos ru.n twF3y. One night it am late and my ~iule i~in sway. I r~e my rnind I go back and see what he ru.n from and. somnethint ~m by dc fence like de bear stand up straight. It st~nd dere ‘bout fifteen minutes while I draws my best ‘pinion of it. I didn‘t git any nearer ~an to see it, A man down de road. tell me de plac e a~n hazit cd ~mnd he dunno how many wagons and maul ~s git pull by dat thi rig at dat place,

	“One time I~s living ‘nother place and it ein ‘twixt s~rndown and dusk. I had. a 11)1 boy thind me ~nd I seed. a big sow with no head c~in‘ over de fence. My ma, she allus say what I see ~aight be ‘ma~ination and to turn my head and look ‘gain and I does dat. But it still dere, Den I seed a hoss goin‘ down de road and he drag e chain, and. cross de bridge and turn down de side road. But when I git to de side road. I ain‘t seed. no hosa or nothin‘. I did~n‘t sap nothin‘ to de li‘l bo~r ‘~jnd me on de mule till I gits most home, den asks him did he see anythin‘. He say no. I wouldn‘t tell him ‘fore dat, 1cause I ‘fraid. he light out and outrun me and I di3n‘t want to be by myself with dem things. When I gits home and tell everybody, dey s~r dat a man name McCoy, what was kilt d‘ers and I seed he spirit.

	~	1bo~it twenty~.one when I marries Mandy Green. Us has twelve chilien, and. a world of grandcbillen. I travels all over Louisiana and Texas in my time, and come here three year ago. My son he work in de box fact‘ry here, and he

~	git a bodily inji,trement while he workin‘ and. die, ~nd I come here to de burial aad .1 been here ever sInce,
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