Biu‘.Slave Stories	Page Thres
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and works for myself. I gits married in 187? and. my wife dies in 191e. ~e‘uns has one chile. In 1898 I comes to Port Worth and gits me a job in à. woodyard anti sich.

	“Thite man, I sho‘ likes for to see dat 01~ plantation dom in Louisiana and it would d.o dis 01 ‚ dar~ good. I sits ~eri and thinks of d.. ~arster and dß good ti~es. And de fisnin clown d.sr.~ Is d.ere good. fishin‘? De folks here don‘ know what am fisziin‘.

	“TOUh has dis nigger thinkin‘ heaps ‘bout d. oI~ plantation and d.s good. tiiies. If I don‘ stop talkin‘ bout dat, I gits to cryin‘.
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