Ex~.~slave Stories	~ree r
(Texas)




	~	has lots of meat at times0 Old gr~nd~dad.d~r allus ketchin‘ rabbit in some kind of trap, ~noetly make outtn a holler log, He sot ‘~~m roun~1- In the garden pncl sho‘ kotch the rabbits, And possums, us have a good. possum dog, sometimes two or three, ~nd every night you h~er~ them dogs b~,rk1nt j~ the field down b~r the br~ch. Sho‘ ~ they ~1t prssur~ treed and u.s go git him and. parbile him ~nd put him in tue ove~i ~nd bake him plu‘~, tender. Then we stacks sweet ‘taters round hira ~nd po‘ the juice over the whole‘ thing. Now, there is soinethint good. ‘nuf for a king.

	“Th~r~ was lots of deer and turkey and squirrel in the wil‘ wood. ~nd so~iebody out ~ nearly eve‘ry dey. flourse Massa Riae‘s folks couldn‘t eat up ~ll this meat b~fo‘ it spile end. the niggers allas t~:it ~ :~r~e.t big part of lt. Then we kilt lots of hawgs and then talk tbout ~~tti~‘! O, them chitlir~s, souserneat and the haslets, thats the liver ~nd the Ii~hts all biled. up together. Us Ii‘I nigg~rs fill up on sich as th~.t and. go to bed and. r~to~‘ dream us is Ii‘l pigs.

	‘1Us allus have plenty to eat bu~ di~I~I t parr r‘iuch ~ tention to CIOth~~. Boys and gi~J~s all dress jes‘ alike, one long shirt or dress, They call it a shirt itfen a boy wear it nnd call it a dress iffen the g~‘:~l we~‘ it. There wasn‘t no d.iffer~nce, tc;~use they‘s all made outtn ~O7nethjn‘ like duck and all white. That is~ they‘s whi~te when ~rou ~Lis‘ put them on, but Rfter you w~9rS them a WÎI11e they git kind of pig..cullud, kind of grey, but st ill they‘ 5 all tne ~ color. Us all go barefoot in summer, liii ones and big ones, but In WiYIt~r U.S have homemake shoes.