Dibble ‚ Fred ‚ ?.L ‚ Beeh].er ‚ Rheba, PJ. ‚	113
Beaumont, Jefferson, Dist. #3. ~


gwine to stir up your stomach and nick you sick. And you better not drInk no milk when you tek dat N~y~app1e root and you don‘ want to eat nuffin~ needer. Dat‘s bitter‘n quinine. ~‚

	HC0!ße, sometime some of de slaves d~ on de plantation. I know dey have horne-mek coffin, but I ain~t neber see ‘em mekin‘ one. Sometime‘ when de corpse a-layln‘ dere dead dey have awake.“

	“Dem what wanted ‘em had a 11,1 patch of ~roun‘ wher~e dey plant garden truck and veg‘tablez for deyseif. Dey have half a day off on Sunday, ~nd den co‘se, dey have Sunday. All de slaves have big holiday on Cri~mus.“

	“Dey lib in log houses. Moss and du‘t (dIrt) wa~ pack‘ all In ‘tween de l0Ez and board8 wa~3 nail‘ On over dat. 01‘ marster he havea awful large house buil‘ outer plank. It had a gallery to de front and back. ~‚

	“Dey had a li‘l house down de way dey had preachin‘

in.	De white preacher he do de preachîn‘. Seem to me dat soon play ~

	“Dey had. aol‘ lady what ten‘ to de chillun when dey In de fiel‘ pickth‘ cotton. Sometime she uster sing:

‘My Lord say dey‘s room enough,
Room enough in hebben for us all.‘