~x~.sla~e stories	. Page Two 82 (Texas) .



	“Our hcmse we had. to live in, I tell yŒ3. we had a toi~h affair, a picket concern, you might say no house a-‘tall. The beds was one of yotir own make; if you knowed how to n~ke one, you had. one, but of course the chilien slept on the floor, patched up some way.

/7/ “We went barefooted in the summer ~nd winter, too. You had.

~:. ~ ~ to prepare that for ~rourself, ~nd if you didn‘ have head. enou&h to pre~.

~I# ~) pare for yourself, you went without. I don‘ see how they done as well ; I as they done, te~se some winters was awful cold, but I always said the

( Lawd was w~.tb ~ em,

~	“We dIdXi‘ hs~ve no little ~ard.en, we never had no tlae to work no géden. Ihen you could see to work, ~/ou was workin‘ for him, RoI You d.idn‘ know what money was. Be neyer paid yoti anything, you neyer got to see none. Some of the Germans would give the old. ones a little piece

of money,	but the chillen, pshawl They neyer got to see nothin.~ “He was a pretty good boss. You di&nt hare to work S~inday and.

part of Saturday and in the e~entn‘ ‚ you h~d that. Re fed us good. Some~ times, if you was crowded, you had~ to work all day Saturday. But usually he g1~e you. that, so you could wash and. weave cloth or such. He had cullud. women there he kep‘ all the time to weave and spin. They kep‘ cloth made.

~:	“On Saturd~r nights, we jest knocked ‘round theplace. Chrietxuas?

:	I don‘ know as X was ever home Ohristaas, My boss kep‘ me hired out. The : sl&v~e never had. no Christmas presents I know of. And big dinners, I neyer i• was at nary one, They iutd‘ g Ive us nothin ‚ I tell you ‚ but a grubbin‘ hoe

an~t axè and the whip. ~hey had ‘ n ehuckin ‚ s in thera day. and t n shellin ‚ s, too. We~ would shuck so aany days az4 so many days to shell it up.

	~We would. shoot airbies when we waa little. It was all the game the 1UU$rs ever knowed~, was ahootin‘ marbles.