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de j~ai1s when ah‘d ~o fer to carry her home.


	“Miss Ann, she used ter ~ibme money, but hi didi~‘t know what t‘ do wid hit. Ah had all de clothes ah cou]~d weab and all ah could eat and didii‘t need playthings, to~ld~‘t read much, and didn‘t know where to‘buy any books. Ah had bit good.


	“~Then peace wuz signed, dey gib me lots of Confedera:e bills to play with. ~Ah had ten—dollah bills and lots o‘twenty~dollah bil1~, good bills, but y‘know de~z wi~zn ‘t wuth nothin‘. Ah have a twenty.-dollah bill ‘rotm sorn‘ers, if hi could evah fin‘ hit.


;:	AYes, ail had hit good. M~‘ mothah, she sta~yed on de plantation, too. She did de ohurnin‘ and she run de loom. She wuz a ~øod weaver. Ah used ter

.	hoip 1~ter rur~ de loom.


	fl~e stayed on a while after Freedom and den our Massy he civ‘ my mothah a cow and calf along wid otter ~reserits an‘he carried us back to my father an‘ we had a little heine.


	tI~1 loved mah Missus just as good as ah did my own mothab. She whipped me a few tirne~s but then de ~hippins wuz iionlyx~ps on de head wid her thirm~ble. ~th spose ah needed hit, for ah “did like sugah“~ (Growth; more confidential he ex~1ained);


	ITNOW, ah ~.vould~‘t steal nothin‘ else, butuh~—ah,—~uh~ah did like su~ah1“


	“Missu~, she had a big barrel ob lumpy su~h in de pantry. De doo‘ wuz ~inner1j locked, but sometimes when hit wuz hoperi, ah‘d ~o in an‘ take a han‘ fu‘.


	~Ah ‘membah once, ah crawled in tru de winder and inah Missus she s‘pioionated ah wuz in dare eatth‘ sugab, so she oalled, “Dav‘id, you ans‘er me, you all‘s in
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