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But yer know diy‘a good an‘ bad p•ople ev.ry where. That‘e ths way the whit, folk. wug. Soue had hiarts; some had gizzard. ‘itead o‘ hiarti.

	~kten my raother~‘s master died, 4, called my mother an‘ brothir Major au‘ got r.llgion an‘ ta1ke~ •o pur/ty. ie say he so eorry that he hetn‘t found the Lord befor• an‘ had nuttin‘ gaiziet his colored people. He wae eorry an‘ ecared, but cOnfes8•d0 ~y ~c~her died twenty years since then at the age of

She wug viry religious an‘ all w~.te folks set store to ‘er.

	Old Maasa done so wuch wrcngneea I couldn‘t tell yer all of it. Slave girl Betty Lilly always had good clothes an‘ all the priviligee. She wuz~a favorite of his‘n, But cain‘t tell a11 God‘. got aUJ ~. uster sing a song when he was 3hippin‘ the slaves to sell ‘em ‚ bout “~asea ‚ e ~wyne Sell U~ Termerrer . „ No~ I ~in ‘t sing it for yer. ~y husban‘ lived on the plantati~u flex‘ to my mistress. He lived with a bachelor master. He tell us say once when he was a pickinnany ol‘ JMree ~i1liame shot at ‘im. He didn ‘t shoot ‘em; he jet ‚ shoot in the air an‘ ol ‚ ~an wuz so ace~red he ran home an~ got in his mammy‘s bed. Massa ?~illiwns uster play wit ‘iii; then dey got 80 bad that th•y‘ud run an‘ grab ‘is laige so‘s he couldn‘t hardly walk so when he sees ‘eni he jes‘ shoots in de air. 01‘ Ma~aa, he, jee‘ come on up ter the cabin an‘ say “mammy whah dat boy?“ She say, in dah undah the bed. Yer done scared ‘im to deaf.! 01‘ ~assa go on in an‘ say, Boy: That‘s the mattah ~id yer. Boy say, yer shot ras master yer shot me! Maeter cay, ~ C~an ~ Git up ~n‘ come t~long. I ain‘t

shot yer. I je.‘ shot an‘ scared yer. HOh~ Heh Heh Yeseir my ol‘ husban‘ sayed he sure was scared that day.

Now yer take dat an‘ go. Fut that in the book. Yer kin make out wif dat, I ain‘t a gonna tell yer no more. No.ir. The end a time im at hand anyway. 2Tain‘t no use ter write a book. The Bible say when it git so‘s yer cain‘t till one season


from t‘othsr the won‘s coinir~‘ to endherß hit i~ so warm in winter that,~fiols like Sumrüer. Goodbye. Keep lookin‘ good an‘ co~ again.