~.	~ ~x~-elaves Steries
~	(Texas)
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	5Then we WitS dore töout a year, dire sin heaps st trouble. Dere was a mitghbor, Shields, he‘s drivin‘ wood. te town and goes ntcress nleßta~ s yard and dey have ~ arg‘ mente. One day we chilien playin‘ and masta ee‘ttint on de frent porch and. Snield.s come up ci.e read. Masta stipe ~iim w1~en rie starte to crise de yard. and de fuit thing we knows, we nears

•b&ag1 and d.at Snields moite ~e maei~a ai~a. we sees nia 1~al1. Dey sen‘s yswig iLex for de doctor and he makes dat mule zu n like ne never ruii ‚ fore. De doctor comes in de nouse and iooics &b a.e masta, aud. listens to nis neart and. says, ‘He am dead, ~ I~ere was pewer±‘ui. sorrow in dat home.

	t, Aft er dat ‚ Muta Lie X t aloe s c~iarge ‚ and in ~ b ~it one year ‚ ne Tletuiis goin‘ to Port Worth.‘ Si we goes, and 1 I rec1lec‘s rignt, dat ae war started. Arier dat, dere was times dere waan‘ eneu~h to make de cl•the., but we~uns allu.. nad plenty te eat, and we gives lots ox rood to de army mans.

	t‘ ~ don‘ I meaoer be In‘ toi ~ I e zLiS • ~e 1ufl8 si; ayed. rignt den on de larm, • cause it was as •nly noms we knew and no retiß•ii to go. I stays den tiil I~s twenty—se~in years •ae, ~en I marries and my husban1 rents land. ~ uns nas ten enillun and s ~aetini•e we has to skimp ‚ but we gets Sn. Then my imeban‘ dies fifte~i years a~gs, I comes ziere. he ailus ueen t,. busy t•ndin‘ te my ‘sponsibilitiss for te git in de debilment, ~ now I‘, happy, tendin‘ to my great gran‘ chili,
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