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been dead. foar years . If you crave to see yaar dead foiks ‚ you‘ Il never see them, but if you t t think I ~ out them they‘ 11 e orne back soins time.

*Two nigger women d1ed~ in this house and. both of thera allus smoked a

pipe. My boy andine used to smell the pipes at ni~t, since they died., and one morniti‘ I seed. one of them. I jus‘ happened to look out the window and saw one of then go in‘ t o t he cowpen • I knowed. her by her bonnet.

	“They‘s a nigger church and cemetery up the road. away from my bo~ise where the dead folks cane out by twos at night and go in the church and hold. service. Me and. the preacher what preaches there done seed. and heared them.

	“They‘ e a way of kespin‘ off hauts. That ‚ č done by tackin‘ au old. shoe by the side the door, or a horseshoe over the door, or pu].lin~ off part of the planks of your hou~se and puttin‘ on s orne new boards.“
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