2. 29~ She put a little sugar o~ my btttered bread. It wa~ .0 good I thought. 3ometime~ she‘d till my cup up with tre~h churned milk. ~I et in the kitchen; the white folki et in the dining‘room. I alep‘ in granny‘ a houie ‚ in granny‘ a bed, in the back yard. Granny‘ i nana wae ‘Aunt ‚ ~ • She wa~ real old and the boaa cook on our place. ~e learnt all the girls ou our place how to cook. Kept one or two helping her ail the time. It ~ her part to make them waah their faces every morning .00n as they atarted a tire and. keep their hands clean all the time er cooking. GrB.DD.y wore her white apron around her waist ai]. tim. Betty would make thea help her milk. They had to waih the cois udder before they ever milked a drop. ~ Miss Patey learnt her black to1k~ to be clean. Every one of them neat ae a pin sure as you born. RI was go little I couldn‘t think they got whoopings. I never heard of a woman on the place being whooped. They all had their work to do. Grandma c~.t ~ out and made pants for all the men on the ihole farm. “Old man Rook raised near ‚ bout ail hi. nigger.. He bought whiakey by the barrel. On cold morningi they come by our ehop to get their ~acka. I heard them aay they all got a drink of whiekey. Hie handa got to the field whooping and singing. The overseere handed it out to th~. The w~n didn‘t get none as I knowed of. em. pacidyroilera run ‘em in a heap but Master John Rook never let thm whoop his colored folks. ~We lived six miles from Holly Springß on the big road to Me~nphia. Seem like every regiment of Yankee and rebel aoldiers stopped at our house. They made a rak-‘off every tine. They cleaned us out of sc~.thing to eat. They took the watches and silvervare. The Yankees rode up on our porch and one time ons rode in the hail and in a rocii, )Ljs~ Patsy done run an‘ hid.