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He wa~ a little bit er black fella.r $croughed back in the dark, All what saved him he wore a black sorter coat. They couldn‘t see him so goode Wø.y he said they would took hirn to wait on them and be in the fights toot Them Yankees took Massa 3ack Tyler off and sont him back ma while. She had him buried in the garden. She didn‘t know it was him~

	“t~ffj~j~y~ was a slavery wonian. She was sold first time from a neighbor

man to a neighbor man. He was an old rnan~ She ploughed and rolled logs. Then she was sold to Master L~ickadoo close to Holly Grove. They named her ~loise ‚ and she was a farm woman. She was so good to me • She was a worker and never took time to tell rae about old times. She said Lickadoo never whooped her. A storm come and blowed a limb down killed her granddaughter and broke my leg. The same storm killed their niu.le. ~he raised a orphan


?°~ too. She died from the changé of life but she was old, gray headed. Since I‘m older I think she had a tumor. ‘Cause she was old when she took me

on.

	“I &~ets ten dollars from the Weli“are. I ain‘t goiner say nothin‘ for ‚ em nor nothin‘ agin ‚ em. They‘ ~ bütWi~‘ and between no ‚ count and good.

	“Times too fast. I can‘t keep up wid them. ‘Betwix‘ and between the fat and the lean.‘ Some do very well I reckon.“