Ex—s1gv~ Stories	Pi~ge Four
(Texas)








	t, ~ dontt know .as I ‚ spected s‘ s land to be ~ vided. ~nd give us, but they w~as plenty of land for everybody, and missy alius treated us right. 4ages was terrible small for a 1on~ t line after I married ~nd sometimes they wouldn‘t ~2Y US, and we had. to beg or steal. I‘s went a whole two days with— out nothin‘ to e&t . If it hadn‘t b~en for them there flu flux, sometimes tne niggers would have went on the warpath for starving. Bu.t the flu K1~ixers wouldn‘t let tem roam none, if they tried they stretch them out over a log and hit) them with rawhide, but never s~y a word. That was got the niggers they was so silent, not a sound. oat of them, ana. the nigger he can‘t stand that.

	“I gits a pension and works when I cm~ and gits by. Some the young niggers is purty sorry, they‘s had. ~o much and öontt ‘predate none of. it~. I‘s glad for what I can git, tcause I ‘members them old times after th~i war when it was worse‘n now,