E~x~s1ave Stories	P~e Two
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	“~‘o1ks iii theta times cooks in the fireplace and. my auntie, she cook. She make ‘simmon bread and. ‘tat~r pone and. the like. She mash up ~simrnons with bu.tter and pour sweet milk and flour in it. That make good ‘siznrnon bread.. We has skillets what was flat and deep and set on three legs.

	“The slaves live~i in little log houses and sleep on wood~ beds. The beds was make three-legged. They make augur hole in side of the house and put in pieces of wood to make the bed frnme, and they put straw and cotton mattress on them bed.

	“Old x~arster used to let he slaves have a extry cotton patch to they— selves and they work it by the moonlight. They could sell that cotton ~nd have the money for tiieyselves.

	“My white mistus was a Christian and she‘d own her Śod. anywhere. She

used to sho~~t, jus‘ sit and ci~p her h~~nd.s and say, ‘Hallaluj~h.~ Once I seed. lier shout in churcxi and. I tninkg something ail her and I r~n down the elsie and goes to fannin‘ her.

	“One oftne slaves was a sort—a preacher and. sometimes marster ‘lowed hia t o p reach t o trie n iggers ‚ but he have t o preac~i with a t~b ove r nie ~aead, ‘ca~.tse ne git so happy he talk too loud. Somebody fr~ tne big nouse liable to come down and make him quit ‘cause ~e makin‘ ‘sturbanc‘~.

	UI ~rings water from the well and they have what tziey call piggirs.,

and they was little tubs with two handles. Mistus wou.ldn‘ ‘low me to do any heaYy work.

	‚I ~ see eoj ers and knit s socks for ‚ ein b~r moonshine . Me ~md my hu‘ was married. by a Yankee sojer. I was dress in white Tarleyton wedd1n1 dress ati~1 I didn‘ wear no hoop skirt. I had. a pretty wreath of little white flowers~ little bitty, little dainty ones, the pretties‘ little
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