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Ex..elav. Stories	Page Three
(Texas)
“I was about 17 year old then and I so happy not t~ à~we Ml s sy make us work hard. but Bhe have plenty to eat and on Chr1stia~,s she cook us a real dinner of beef meat.

	“Plenty time I listens to the canno* popping till I mOst deaf, and I was messenger boy arid spy On the blue belilee. When I‘d. git back to the Southorn soi ers I he ‘ped. ‚ su bury they dead a~d some what was jus‘ wounded I he‘ped carry horns.

	uWhen we heered was Was over arid we~ s free, we aU. jus‘ jui~ped up and hollers and. dances. Missy, she cries and cr1e~, and Zelle us we is free and. she hopes we starve to death and ehe‘d be glad., tcwise it ruin her to loss us. They was a big bunch of us *lggere ii town and we stlrrii‘ ~ round like bees workin ‚ in and out a hive • ~e was jus‘ that way. I went wild and the first year I went north, but I come back ‘gain to Texas.

	“Mter ~ I i~arries a I$i~n maid. It was nothii‘ mu‘ch but lidians ~ round. and. there wasn ‚ t mach law. I 1 ived. with her ‚ bout two yeaxb and then the lidians come and captured her jus‘ b‘ she was to give birth. They kilt her or carried her sway and 1sf‘ me for dead, ~rnd I never seed or heered. of her since, While I was sick a outlaw, what was Tomas Je±~feries, he sped ~ git well and then I turns outlaw and follows all signs of Indians, all over the earth. But I iever could git word of my wife,

	“It aus~ be ‘bou.t 15 year after that, I marries Feline P0H, by a preacher. My fir8t weddin‘ wee common weddi*‘ with the Indian maid. I jus‘ give her deerskin in front of Tomas J.fferiss and she
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that bell I could
on me.

sleep,