Ex-slave Stories	Pate Five	~ ‚ 19
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open a shop on Bayou Torti ‚ ‚ tween St • Mart in and Lafayet te. I charge $2.00 for to shoe a hoss ~l1 de way round. Den I beat plows, build two—wheel bu~y and haek~ I make sweepstocks ~‚nci G~arrett and. Cottman plow. Dat after de time of de wood mould boards. I make mine with metals

	Is I C OIflC t O Texas ~n 1890, to Libérty, and been ri~ht round dere and Aines for forty~.seven year. I start me a gin and blacksmith shop when I first come. I marry in Houston to ~pheme Pradia, tnother fre~.horn nigger, and. I still marry to her after Thrty.~even year. Dat a good ~ long hitch. We have s even chi 11 en, all livin ‚ • One gal went to de Catholic church school in Gal-P veston. One boy go to PradeaixUnivemity in New.OrIeans. Dey two blacksmith, one farmer, one good auto møchanic and de three gats keeps house,

	091 ‘member lots of son~ us sire in French. but I can‘t give tmerican for dem. I know de song, L~u~ii~r~. I try t O translate One song f(r yO~L



“M~.ster of de house OElve me meat without salt; When de strai~ger come, He cive ~e roast chicken. ‚~
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