- E~s1~~e Stories	P~e Three	f34.
 (Texas)






	ttIn ‘bout a year after freedom, Marster Loyed moves from

P~1o Pinto to Port Worth. He says he don‘ w~.nt to live in a country wh~r d~e niggers ~ free. He kills ~ ‘bout a yer~r ~‚.fter de~r n~oves. After dat, I‘se sho‘ glad when peppy comes for nie. He had. settled at £zle on a rented fare and. Itse lives wid hii~ for ‘bout ten years. Den I‘~e &;oes ~nd st~y~ wid r~r brudder on Ash Creek. De three of us rente land. ~nd us rims dat f~a,rra.

	tilise 4t married ‘boat four years after Itse ~oea to Ash

Creek, to Bell Johnsoii. ?ie h~.d four chilien, He works for white folks. ‘Bout nine years after we married my husb~n‘ gits dro~iied and. den I works for white folks and cares for my chilien for fo‘tee~ years. Then Itse ~its married ~a1n. Itse married Fred Miller, a cook, ~nd we lived in ?ort Worth. In 1915 he goes t~~y to cook for de road ~~t~‘iiction canip ~nd dats de la3t I1se hears of dat no ‘count ni~er~

	‘tLots of difference when freedoii corcies. Mas‘ de time ~i‘ter, I1se heve what I wants to eat. Sorueti~e 1twas a little hard to cit, but we ~1te on. I1ee goes to pre~ch1n‘ and has riusic ~M visit wid de folks I ~ se like. Bu.t Marster Loyed makes i~s work froM day11~ht t~ dark in de fiel‘s ~d make cloth at n1~ht.