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	“Ive h~d good beds and good food and dey teaches us to read and write too. ~e buffalo and de antelope and de deer was mos‘ as thick as de cattle now, and we was sent out after dein, so we would always have plenty of fresh raeat. ~e had hogs and cattle too. ;i~ny of dem what was not marked was just as muchoursa~ iffexi we had raised dem~,‘cause de raxi~e was all free.

	TTSome of de fish we would catch out of dut Brazos fliver would be so big dey would pull u.s in but finally we would manage to gits dem out. De rabbits and de ‘possum was plentiful too and wid de bi~ garden what our marster had for us all, we ~ho‘ had good to eat.

	‘il‘s done all kinds oi~ work what it takes to run a fa‘m. M~ boss he had only fourteen slaves and what was called a small fa‘rn, compared wid de big plantations. After our days work was done we would ~et up at night and pick de seed out of de cotton so dey could spin it into thread. Den we goes out and gits different kinds of bark and boils it to git dye for de thread ‘fore it was spinned into cloth. ~e chillun jes‘ have lon,c~ shirts and slips niade out of dis home spun ~nd we ~iakes our shoes out of rawhide1 and Lawdy~ Dey was ao hard we would have to warm dem by de fire and grease dein wid ‘tallow to ever wear dein ‘tall.

	“we had good log huts and our boss had a bigger log house • We never did work lorig into de nicht and lone ‘fore day like I heer tell some did. ~e didn‘ have none o:~ dem drivers and when we done anythixg very bad old