~X~SLAV~ STORIES	P~.ge Two
(Texas)	  .





Saturday evenin‘s. Dem times was for de ~allud folks to do ±br deuiselves. Massa Beaver have it fixed disaway, he ‚ low each family a piece of groun‘ and. dey can raise what dey likes.

	~ rations ~in measure out ~nd dc massa allus ‚ low plenty of meat ~nd we has ~‘theat flour, Mas‘ de niggers don‘t have wheat f1o~xr: but massa r~iees de wheat and we gits it. We kin have ‘l~sses and brown sugar but one thing wetuns has to watch am de w~ste~ ~c~.use massa won‘t stand for dat.

	“De meat am cur~c1 with de hick‘ry wood. smoke ~nd if y~x could git jus‘ one tnste dat hem and bacon you‘ à. never eat none of this nowathy~ ment. It ShO‘ have a. à‘ rent taste.

	“?(e makes de cloth and de wool and I cou.ld card ~d spin and weave ‘fore I‘s big ‘nough to work in de field. My mmnmy lamed me to help her. We makes dye from de bark of wa].nu.t and de cherry and red. oak trees, and. some from berries but what dey is I forg it • Iffen we ~uus want s c1~y red, we buries de cloth in red clay for a week and. lt tekes on dc cblor. Den we soaks de cloth in cold. salt water and. it stays colore&~

	“Massa builded. a log church house for wetuns cullud. folks for to go to God. Dat nig~ger named Allen Beaver am de preacherm~i ~nd de leader in all de parties, ‘cause him can play de fiddle. No, Allen am not edumcated ‚ but can he preach a pow‘ fui. sermon. O ‚ Lawd~ He am inspire from de Lawd and. he preached from his heartfelt.

	“Dere am only one time dat a nigger gits whupped on dat plantation ath dat am not given by massa but by dein patterrollers. Massa don‘t

gin‘rally 1low dein patterrollers whup on his p1~ce, and all de niggers from round dere allus run from de patterrollers onto massa‘s land and den dey