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~rou~n as iffen we ~ good. sense. We didn‘ have nothin‘ nor no~ where to go, and. Massa Lswis say iifen we ftnien making cl. crop, he would take us back to Opelousa. and give u~ a place to stay~ and feed us • So after pickin‘ we gos s back and when we git there we sees where those rascal Tankee s ‚ stre~e& everything houses burned, •~a~‘ kettles broke up. It looked mighty bad.

	“Massa Lewis hadn‘ no money, but he fixed us ttp a place to stay end give us what he could to eat, but things was mtgt~ty ziard for a ~hile. I know peppy used. to catch rabbits and take them to town and sell thea or trade thee for sonethin‘ to eat, and. you know that wasn‘t euch, ‘cause you can‘t git ~ch for a little ol‘ rabbit.

	“Then tt~s Pr‘ Mar, that was ~iis name ‚ give us a order for t~ain~s to put in a crop with and to live till we made the crop. tCourse, I g~tess we wasn‘ as bad off as some, tcause white folks knew we was Massa Lewis ‚ folks and didn‘ bother us none.

	Then I got married to John Bell, and it was a scripture weddin‘ ‚ too. Re died. 28 years ego, but I has stayed married to hi~ ever since. We had thirteen chilien, bat they is all dead now 1cept four, b~it they was raised. up rignt and they is mighty good to they oil ~~ma7.