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de s1ip~‘gap, what was a rail took down from de bottom de fence, so de hawgs could run under~, .

	“Injuns used to pass our cabin in big bunches. One, time dey give mammy s orne earrings ‚ but when th,yt s through ~‚t in‘ they went s dem earrings back, Dat c1~e way de Injuns done, After feedinT dem, thaxnmy allus say, ‘Be good and kind to

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	“One th?y M~st er Vaugh~m come ~ say we ‚ s ail free and. could go and do whet we wants. Daddy and m~mmy rents a place ~nd I stays until 11s fifteen, I wanted to be a teacher, b~.it daddy kep ‚ me hoein‘ cotton most d~ time. Dat‘ s all he knowed. He allus told me it was ‚ nough lamm ‚ could I j et read and write. He never even had dat much, But he was de good fariner and. good to me and mai~y.

	“Dere was a school after freedom, Old Ltaxi Tilcien was de teacher. One time a bunch of men dey calls de flu Klux com~ in de room ~nd say, ‘You git out of here and git ‘way from dem niggers. Don‘ let us cotch ‘rcïu here when we cames back.t Old M2n Tilden shot was scart, but he say, 1~~i all come badc tomorrow.1 He finishes dat year and we never hears of him ‘gain. Dat a log schoolhouse on Williamson Creek, five mile south of Austin.

	“De n a cullud teacher named Hamlet Campbell come down from de north. He rents a room in a big house and mares a school. De tr~tstees hires and pays him ~nd us chilien didn1 t have t O p~ • I ~ot t o go S orne ‚ and‘ I allus tells m~ grand-. daughter ho~c I‘s head of de class when I does go. She ~m good in hr~r studies, too.

	tl Then s fifteen I marries Benj aznin Calhoun Scales and he was a farmer. We had five chilien and three boys is livin‘ • One am a preacher and Arthur wn

a cement laborer and Chester works in a printint shop. •
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