Ex-~S1ave Stories	Page Four
( Texas)



when :~ie read. the free papers they jes‘ flew out likebirds. But I didn‘t. I was st i~c ‘ to ray grandiuother. She was on crutches and she st ~red on at the Harper place.

	“After ~-~ was f~‘ee I worked for ther‘i a long time. I cooked, washed, ivoned, milked thc~ cows. He was pretty good to us, Judge H~u‘per was. I went ~ion~ with hiix when h~ went to war, his wife and chill~n~c1.td too, pnd I nursed tht~m, I‘d give a young ~~1y~rshu~k t~a to break him out with the hives. For chills and fever I cive quinine weed. It don‘t grow here.

	“~Vhen Judge Earper went ~p to Hondo ~y grandma grabbed inc and kept me. So I st2~yed and worked. I Was still a young girl, }ut I plowed~ hruled. and grubbed. I ~is~d to wear ‘cotton 3trip~s.1 I re!aember ~ well. It was a hor~espun cloth. I kn~w how to spin a“id weave ~1 I could knit a pair of socks in two nichts.

	“I never did hear ni~ch about hard times. I was treated good but I c~t switched rr~r ~. ti~~e. Oh, ves~m, l‘y‘ b4~en whipped, but not like some of ~e~g was. They used to tie some of ‘emdo~m. I‘ve beer~d tell, they shore whopped

~	They used to be a runaway that ~ot away ~nd went to ~4exico now and then, zxid i.f they cwi~ht him th~r shore whopped him awful.

	‚t That ol~ p 1 ~~no in t he re ‚ my dau~ht er b ought a 1 ong t line ago . The yarn i sh is off, but a r~n toi‘ us it co~~id be s~ndpap~red and refthished und it would be a beautiful thing, It ‚ s about 75 years olc~.“