:~‘i~~.slave Stories (pg~e Three) Texas
Pace Three
70
	I‘tJ8 have plenty wild. ~ine, wild. geese anc~ duc1c~, Fishin‘ ~ri mighty ~od~ Dey was ‘gat~rs, to.. I ~àéd d~m b1t~ a man‘~ crin •ff. “If a &U~V~ feelin‘ b~d c1E~y wsulthi‘t in~ke him wirk. ~y uncle and my ma~nifly dey aever werk nithin~ te speak .±~. Dey i~Uus have s~rn~ kind. c~mp1aint. Ai~t rio te1~••~n‘ what it ~‘wine be, but y~u could ‘1gw ~ernethix~ alunT dei~L

	$1 ~ I membt~r dey a whi t e man . H~ had ~ ~1f ‚ ~ I d,i~Tt care what kind of ~uiima1, a d~g er a hosz, dat man he work ~n it ~nd lt never leave yau ‘~r you h.use ~ It ~ anyb *dy have t •ethache •r ear~ che he t~ a brexid new nail what ain‘t never w•rk bef•‘ and w.rk de.t r~undy~u t~th •r ear, Dat break up de t~othaehe ‘r ear~iche right aw~r. He have i1‘l pr~y~r he say. I don‘t kncw what lt was.

	tIIt~ seed gh.stie~. ~ I talk with oem, t... S~uietim~ dey like people. S,metimee dey like aiimal, in~ybe white d.c. I ailu5 fe~1 chilly whén d~y c~zne round me. I talk with my wife gfter she dead. She tell me, ‘Dsn~t y.u fergit

.	t. pray.‘ She say di~ w.rld. cerrupt and ‘î.u git t~ f1~ht it •ut.~
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