~x~s1ave Stories	Page Two
(Texas)





and tended the place while massa‘s away. Massa done say he‘d let the niggere go withOut fightin‘. ~e didntt think war was right, 1~t he had. to go. He

‘serts ~nd comes home b~fo‘ the war gits goin‘ gooi ana the soldiers cc~e after

him. He run off to uie botto~as, b~it they was on hoeses ax~d overtook him. I was

there In the room when they bnrng hirn back. One of them says, ‘Jacks~i, we

ain‘t gwine take you with us n~w, but we‘ll fix you so you‘can‘t run off till we git back. ‚ They put red. pepper in hi~ eyes and left • Missie cried.. They cone back for hi~ in a day or two and niade my father saddle up Hawk-‘eye1 massa‘s

best hose. Then they rode away and we never seed. massa ‘gain. One day my brother, Alex, hollers xtt ‚ ‚ Oh, Mi este, yonder is the hose ‚ at the gate ‚ and ain‘t nobody ridin‘ him.‘ Missie throwed up her hands and says, ‘O, Lawdy, a~y

h~xsban‘ am dead! ‚ She icnowed somehow when he left he waan‘ t c~in‘ back.

	“Old Missie freed ua but said we had a home as long as she did. Me and my h~sban‘ sta~~s ‘bout a year, but my folks stays till she marries ‘gain.

	‘My brother-4n..law, Sain Pitman, tells us how he put one by the Ku

Kiuzers. Him and some niggers was out one night and the ~liixers chases them on hoeses. They run down a narrow road and tied four strands of ~ra~evine ‘cross the road, ‘bout breast high to a hose. The Kiuxers c~e gallopin‘ down that road and when the hosses hit that grapevine, it throwed them every which wa~r and broke some their aras • Sa~ USed t O l&t~h 8fld t Si l how them fluxer. cussed them niggers.

	~Me and my husban ‚ come to Mar~Il the year aft er surrender, and I is lt,ed~ her. every since. W7 ßfl works on farms t ill he got on the railroad. I‘s ben married. four ttmes and raised six chilien. The young people is diff‘rent frc~i ~at we was, but diff‘rsnt tiaes calls for diff‘r.nt ways, I ‘spect. My

øhi.U.~ allus done the best they could by me.