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other places, not on ours.

	‘Marse ?raztir, he didn‘ t work us too hard. and. give Saturcley ~xtd Sunday off. Re‘s all right and. gt~e good food. Psople sho‘ would ran off from him, ‘cause he too good. He was de Methodiet preacher and f~xrniBh us church. Soms~ t tines he has camp meet Ing and dey cook out doors with de skifltck~. Sometimes he has . corn ehucicing t 1mo and we has hawg meat and meal. bread and whiskey and eggnog and ducken.

	“De bOoks he bruiug us didn‘t do us no good, ‘cause tts wouldn‘t lam nothin‘0 Us too buey playing end hwittn‘ goouberriss in de wood, de huckleberry arid grape and musoa&ine and chinquapins, Ail di~ time de war was fixin‘ and I seed two, three soldiers round ~pyin‘ . When peace ‚ cla~ed missy‘ e two boys c~e back from de war. Je stays with Ïsrse Prazier two year and den I goes and. git s marri od. to de man cal). Bakers

	“I done been blind like dis over 40 year. One Sunday I stay all night with a man and he wife and I was work~n‘ as woodchopper on de Santa ~ route

‘~1p Beaumont to Pyler county. After us git up and I starts ‚ way, I am ‚ t gone but 15, 16 yard when I hear somethin‘ say, ‘R ose, you done s~ethin‘ you ain‘t ought.‘ I say, ‘Wo, Lawd, no‘ t~n de voice eay,~So~ethinh gyms happen to you,‘ and di next v~omin‘ 1e blind as d• bat and. I ain‘t hever esed since.

	“Some try tell me snow or sweat or smoke de reas~. Dat ain‘t de reasofl, I~ey a old, old ‚ slewfoot ed sometbin ~ froii Loul si ana and dey s ay he de conjure man, one dem old hood.oo nigger.. H. git maci at me de last plii* ripentit‘ time and he make up powdered rattlesnaks dust and pass dat through my hair and I sho‘ ain‘t seed no more.