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7A&~iNI:~ ~R~RŒio~, blind ànd b.drid4eft, was born a slave of the MoKtnney family, near :~g:_ypt, Kaufman C~. ‚ Texas. She
was abc~it six when the C1TI1 War started.
At that time her job was to herd sheep.
After ‘±reedom“ she, lier motnsr and. sister, stayed with the MeKirinsy‘s for a tiidt~.
J‘anni. married Green Tar brough in Huit C0., Texas and the~r flow. livi in a little cabin at 843 Plum St . ‚ Abilene, Texas.




‘SOie Marster iiad a world of cheeps. ~ve17 day we ta~s

dem sheeps and watch ~‘a. The wo.L~es was mean. ~e‘d git to playin‘, all ua littleniggers, and. forgit tîiexn sheeps and ~iex‘ thing you know an old wolf would have him‘ f a sfle S».

‘Souietimes we‘d. keep playin‘ so late it ~as dark ‘fors we

knowed it and we‘d start runntn‘ them sheep~ home. 01‘ )Larster would be at de big gate to lei; us in, Re says, tNow, ctillen, you did&

git back wi th all the sheep . ‚ V‘ & say, ‚ 0± ~ wolf got ‚ em. ‚ But he knowed 01‘ woit‘ didn‘ gi~ all de ones missin‘ and.~e‘d say, ‘Toii‘rs storyin‘. Then puxty soon some of the little stray Ones COWi home.

Then he biowed we ‚ d run the sneep hOnie ~nd ‘ d s~ ‚ ‚ I ‚ spose t U have to whip you, ! ~it he never did~. Those were sweet t imeal 01~ Merster was so good, and he gus us mor• to sat than y0.i ever saw. Hog meat every day and sweet ttatoes )~O big we‘d hare to ciLt ‘Sm Wit~t anax.

	“After we et our supper, we nsA to spin a broach of thread every night ‚ for we went to bed.. I lamed. aU ‘bout spinnin and weayin‘ when I was little and by t ime I ‚ e 10 I ~ d make pret ty striped cloth.
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