‘~x.-~slave Stories	p~ Three	2 ~ -
(Texas)





he say, ‘Las‘ tinie I tells you ‘bout smellIn‘ the Devil. It5 smellin‘ and seem‘ Hell now.1 When the war aii over, he co~ne home and say to old massa, VAiflIt you read the ‘lamation to you niggers yet?‘ Massa S3~)T he hasn‘t, and young massa blowed the horn and calls us all up and tells us we‘s free as he is and could work for who we please, bat he like Us to stay till the crop ani out • He say be ‚ d hire us and. make a c ont ‘ . Me and my mat~y s tays t en years, ~ they so GOOd lt ain‘t no use to leave. One of the young massas am livin‘ here now, Mr. Torn, and I goes to see him,

	“I stays with mainr~y till I marries and then farms for myself. That all I ever done and I‘d be (loin‘ it now 1f I was able. I raises two boys but they am both dead now.

	III votes once in the cou.nty ‘leetion and once In the president ‘lection. I think any InP.n should vote, but lt aintt ‘tended for women to vote.

	“Mos‘ the young niggers en swine to Hell. They don‘t ‘Dreciate things. They has lots inore‘n we ever did. They.cRn go to school and all, but they don‘t ‘preciate lt.