i~x—slave Stories	Pate Three	•	5
(Texas)




his wife to death and he lef‘ the country ~rid. we moved bi. We heered. peculi~ar noises by night ~.nd the rd~ers ‘round there done told us lt w~s hanted but I didn‘t ‘lieve 1en~, bii.t I do now. One nicht we seed the WOIDRI1 what died. come all ‘round with s~ light in the h~nd and. the neighbors sai.c~ th~.t cand1~ l1~ht the house ~u1l over ~nd it look like it on fire. She corne ev‘ry night ard we left rx~r crop snd mo~d ‘w~ay fr‘~ there and ~ gone h~ck ylt to gather that crop. tFore we moved in thitt place been empty since the woin~n die, ~cause nobody live theri~~ One ni~ht Charlie Williams, what lives in Marsh~l, r~nd runs a store out by the T. & P. H0spitil gît drunk and goes out there to sleep and while he sleep— i~‘ th~.t sa~ne woman come in ~uid nigh choked him to death. Ali‘t r~obod.y ever live in that house since we is there.‘1

	Anderson then resumed his story:	‘I tmember when war starts arid massa‘s boy, G~eorge it was, saddles up ole Bob, his pony, ~nd lef‘. He stays six months and when he rId up massa say, ‘How‘s the war, George~‘ arid massa ~eorge say, ‚ It ‚ s Hell . Me rand Bob has be en rurtnin ‚ Yankees eve‘r since us ~ ‘Pore war rnass~ didn‘t nev~r say much 1bout slav— cry but when be heered us free he cusses end. sa~r, ‘Gawd never did. ‘tend to free niggers,‘ ~nd h~ cussed till he d.i~d.. Bu~ he didn‘t tell us wets free till a whole ye~ after we was, but one d~~‘r a butch of Thnkee soldiers come rid~in‘ up and massa and miss y hid out. The soldiers wp.lke~into the kitchen pnd maxnmy was churnin‘ md one of them icicks the churn over and say, ‘Git out, you‘s just g~ free as I j~•t Then they ramsackeci the place and breaks out ai I the window lights ~xid when they leaves it look like a storm d.one hit that house. Massa come back from hidlu‘ ~jia that when he st~,rts on a cUS8ln‘ spree what lasts as long as he lives.


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