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and meat ~nd barrels ef fleur t• take to war,

	1tMas5a d1dfl~t tell us we wa~ free fir three ~r fiur days aftèr freed.m. Thert he seid, ‘Y•u i~ free; d.n‘t leave, I‘ll pa~r you.‘ The uig~er5 dtdn‘t blew what heineant at fir5t, then samesne say, ~We is free ~ mere whippinge ~d beat in~B . ‚ Y~u iii~ht to see ‚ em jump ~nd clap theii hand$ aad pep them

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tI)~y daddy and. mammy left and went t~ a farm t~ w~r1c fir theyselve$,

but I $tayed till I was near ‘bout gr~wed. Then I etayed with daddy and mammy and then came t. Marshall. ~e,ds was m.stly here then. I ceoked. all rsund t•wn f.r tb.ut fifty years. I didzi‘t marry till I‘~ fiirty4w•. I wa~ w.rking at the Capit3l Hetel f~‘$15.CO a week. Th~.be Witt, a cullud Baptist preacher, mar-

ned me and Lula Dew~ and us raises five chilien.

UMY wife i~ dead. and I ain‘t been able t~ werk far five year5. The relief

and the Red Cr•55 carried me till I g•t my pen~iin and I‘s sb.‘ thank~i t. git that $12,00 a month.
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