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	“Lote of time we eat coosh.coosh. Dat malcie out of meal and water. You bile de water and salt it, den put in de cornmeal and stir it and bile lt • Den you puts milk or clabber or syrup on it and eat it.

.	HOld sassa have de graveyard a purpose to bury de cullud fOlks in. Dey have CU11W1 preacher, I~y have funeral in de graveyard. Dat nigger preacher he a Mef~diat.

	“Old aassa •on—ii..law, he o~erieer. He ‘lew iobody to beat de alavee • Us li‘ 1 one s git Bpaflk when we bad . Dey put us ~ cross de knee and spank ue where dey allue spank chilled.

	“Chriet~aa tise dey give big dia.ner, Ley give all de old men whiskey. Everybody have big time.

	“Dey make 1~ti of sugar. After dey finish cookin‘ de sugar dey draw off what left fr~ de pots and give it to us chilien. Us have

candi pullia‘.

	“Dey weave dey own cloth. Us have good clothes. Dey weave de cloth for make mattreis ~nd etuff ~em with moss. ‚ Massa ebO‘ believe to serve he nigger. good. i see old. massa when he die. Us see old folks cry eM us cry, too. Dey ha‘e de priest and burn de candles, Us eho‘ mise old massa.

	“1 see lots of sojere. Dey so many like hair on your head. They Yankees • Dey call ~ ~ biuej acket s . i»y a fight up ne az‘ massa1 s house. Us climb in tree for to see. Us hear billets go ‘zo~‘ thrau~i de air ‘round dat tree but us didn~t know lt was ballets, A man rid i~,p on a hose sad tell massa to git ‘.~s pickaninnies out dat tree or dey git kilt.

De Yajikees have dat battle and den sot us nigger. free.