1x~‘S1ave Stories	Page Three
(Texas)		~23








UI wants to tell yo~i 1batt t~ow we killed iiogs in my day.

!e digged a deep pit in de gro~in‘ and heated big røcks red hot and. filied up de pit with. wa;er and dropped dem not rocks in and got d.c water not ; den we stuck de hogs and roi led. ~em In dat p it.

	“Soon after I‘s free a man come for in. t~rom Lo~xisvii1e to iiirs me as foremau in nie cotton muis oem. So I we~ tu.ere and. I worked. in Kentucky for 18 year. Fixty~‘one years ago I married. ay ol‘ WO!iafl, Rachel Taylor, at Coreloana, Texas, and I tni.ak ste‘s jes‘ as fine as taie day I m&rried xter. ~e has six chilien and. ail works hard. for a livin‘ and we got one Iii‘ gran&baby 10 years ol‘. Sk~ livss tiers at our ho~.tse arid were educatin‘ her.

“I knows I‘s goin‘ to live to be over 100 years 01‘, ‘cause

~y iiarstsr done toi‘ me so,~
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