:Ex..elave Stories	Page Two
(texas)



things. When I marry, my sister merry too ~nd our ~msbe~n‘e was brudders. My husban‘ dress in suit of white linen. He sho‘ look handsome. He give me a gol ‚ ring and a cup and saucer for dcli‘ gif‘ . Vie git married in Huntsville and us dicin‘ go no weddin‘ Journey trip. We was sopoor we c~tildn‘ go round the houses I ‚ s ‘bout twenty some year when I marries, I don‘ know jus‘ how old. ~e has a big dance that night and tne white come, ‘cause they likes to see the niggers dance.

	ttThe white folks had interee‘ in they cullud. people where I

times they‘s as many as fifty cradle with little nigger babies in the mistus, she look after them and take care of them, toc. She and dry them herself. She hod a little gal git water and help. had no chilien of her own, I‘d. blow the horn for the mudders of babies to come in from tx~e fields and. nurse sein, in mornin‘ and. afternoon.

Mistus feed them what was old exwugh to eat victuals. Sometimes, they mammies talc. th~i to the field and fix pallet on ground for then to lay

on.

	°The las ‚ word my old Mistus Pankey say when she die was ‚ ‚ You take care ot Charlette.‘
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