~xE~slave Stories	PageThree
(Texas)




and he go home and. get took with yellow fever and die.

“They was the old. lady what die. Shø wae a terrible soul. One

tiae after she di. I go to get water out of her rain barrel and t had a lamp in one hand. That old. lady‘s ghost blowed o~~t the leap and slap. ped the pitcher out my hand. After she first die her ~ieband ~mt black dress on her and ti~ up the jaw with a r~ and my girl lo~ in the rocs and. there that old la~, Liza Lee, sittin‘ by the fire. My girl tell her mama and after three day she go back, and Liza Lee buried but my wife see her •ittin‘ by the fire. Then she sorry she whip the chile for sayin‘ she saw Liza Lee. That old lady, Lisa Lee, was a tart and she stay a tart for a long time.

“I marry 72 year ago in the Catholic Church in St. )Lartinville.

My wife call Adeline chretien arid she dead 3? year. Je have seven children but foLtr live now. Prank my only boy live no~ in Iowa, in Louieiane~ and my two girls live ‚ Enzie~e De Qperive and Rose Baptiste.