Ex.‘~s1ave storieg	Page Five
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	“Massa‘s sons not kilt and. am de missy g1~d1 She haie a].lus co1ored~ folks caine to de house and. inakeus kneel down and she th~rnk de L~.wd for s~,vin‘ her sons. Dey even go to other places arid. fights, but dey comes home after de war am over.

	“Surrender come and m:~ssa tells us we can stay or go and if we stay he pay us wages or we works on shares • Some go and. some stT . M~~“~Y ~fl~1 me goes to de Fowler place with my stepfather and we share crops for three year.

	“I stays With d~n till I‘s 18 and den I gits married. flat In 1871 end. my wifedied in 3.928 and we1uris h2ve four chilien. All dat time l‘s farmed till ‘bout 30 yea~r ago when I works in de packin‘ plant here in Tort Worth. I works dere 20 years and den dey say l‘s too old and since den I works at de odd jobs till ‘bc~it five years ago.

	“Since I‘ s quit work at de packin‘ plant it am hard for dis cullud person. I soon uses up my savin‘s and den I‘s gone hongry plenty tines. My chilien ~m old and dey havin‘ de herd time, too. My friends he1~s nie a little and I gits de pension, but it ~ only ~3.OO a month and, course, dat ain‘t ‘nout~r~h.

	“After all dese years l‘s worked and ‘haved, I never thinks I comes t o where I udn‘ t ~i t ‚ nough t o eat • ~ ~ ~ ~ wishful for de Lewd to e all me to jed~gment.