1~X.~1ave Stories	Pa€e Three
(Texas)		~ J





treat the handi so bad.

	NOne time i,y br~idder slip off de plantat ion and they a1i~ost bßat him to death. He told ‚ em lie had to do •omethin‘ to git eo~ethin‘ to eat. They ueed to put ~ ~ a log or barrel to beat ‘em. My mammy had a strop ‚ bout e Ig]at i~ich wide they used to beat ‚ s~ with~

	~Most clotkie~i what we git is fron the Ile.~ what was rich folks and livea elo~e by. They folks 1 ivee in DeR idder ‚ tu Lout slaua, I hearea Th3y treated the slaves ~ike white folkß.

	“On Christmas tin~e they give us a meal. I ‘member that. I~ don‘t ‘member no other holidayi.

	“ehen us ~it ~ US ~o to the woode and git herbe and root8 and r~ake tea and medic1n~. We used to git Blackhaw root and cherry bark and dogwood and chinquapin bark, what sake good tonic. Black snakeroot and ewamproot make good aedicine, too.

	9Ly ~aiay told u. ~e was free and we itarbe right off and walks to Sugart owm, ‚ bout 8 ~Ue away. I ‚ w~mber ~y bru~dder wade . ‚ cro~i

a pool totin‘ me.

	“I u.eed to flU~3S Dr. Prazier. He used to be th~ high sheriff
in DeRidder.