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a~~nowheres to go.

	“Den one day, Cap‘n come out in ci. field with ‘nether man and pick me and four more ha‘ s workin ‚ and say 1 ~ good. workers • Dat was Mr. Jack Adams, what have a place obst to Stafford‘s Run. He say if we wants to work on his place he feed. us and give quarters and pay us for workin‘ ‚ and dat how come I leaves old. Cap‘n, and I ain‘t never see him or dat place where I~s raise sence, but I reckon he so mean de debbil done got him in torment long time ago.

Il ~ works in de field f o r Mr. Jack and dat where Wee Marshall ‚ what I

marries, works, too. After we gits married we gite a piece of ground and stays on de same place till Mr. Jack die and we come to Houston. flat ‚ fore de 1900 et orm.

“I tells folks when dat storm comin‘. I ain‘t ‘lieve in no witch dom‘s,

some way I knows when dat storm comin‘ • Dey laughs at dis old. nigger, but it

	and dey loses hosses and cattle and chickens and houses.

	“I tells de truth jes‘ like it em, and I,a had a hard time in de li~nd..

‚ in dia sinful town, dey don‘t do like de Good Book say. No, euh, dey don‘t.

say, ‘Love they neighbor,‘ and folA~e don‘t love nobody but theyselves! ~Jes‘ look at me~ I~s old with mts1ry and ‘lone in de world. My husband

and ~ chilien done die long e~o and leave me here, and I jes ‚ go from house to hotise, tryin‘ to find a place to stey. Dat why I prays Gawd to take me to his bosom, ‘cause He de onlies‘ one I got to call on.