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	I; ‘Meia‘b~r the war? Course I does, I ‘m,~ber how some of ~iem ji~:T~h 3ff in their uniforms, ~ so grand, ‘nd how sorge of ther~t hide out in triewood to keep fron lookin‘ so grand. They was lots of talkin1 tbout fighting, and rubbing ~nd scrub~bin~ the old. shotgun. The oldes‘ flhggers was settin‘ round the fire late in the night, stirrin‘ the ashes with the poker p~d r~Jcin‘ out the r‘as~ ‘taters, They‘s si~okin‘ the old corn COlD pipe and hoi~emake tobacco ~nd whisperin‘ right low and quiet li~ce what they‘s gwineter do and wb.ar they‘s ~wineter to when Mieter Lincoln, ~e turn them free,

	“The~ more they talk, the more I git scared that the niggers is doing to git sot free and wondering what l‘s gwine to do if they is, No, I ~‚ixess I don‘t want to live back in there times r~ moe, b~it I shoe seed lots of niggers not dom‘ so well as .t~y didwhen th~r was zlaves and not ~ nigh as much to eat.