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make de slaves happy aa she did to make her own white friends happy, it seem leic to me. Close to de tree was a basket and in dat ba8ket was put in a bag of candy, apples, raisixi8 and nuts for all de ohillun. Nobody was left out.

	‘~Christmas ~ xnarster would call all de slaves to come to de Christmas tree. ~e made all de chillun set down close to de tree and de grown slaves jined hand8 and n~ke a circle ‘round aU. Then inarster and missus would give de chilltm deir gifts, Lust, then they woul.d take presents from de tree and call one slave at a time to step out and ~it deirs. After all de presents was give out, missus would stand in de middle of de r1n~ and raise her hand and bow her head in silent thanks to God. ~].1 de slaves done lak her done. After all dis ‚ everybbdy was happy, s ingin‘ ‚ and laughin‘ all. over de place. Go ~ ‘way from here, white xzw4& Don‘t tell me dat wasn‘t de next step to heaven to de slates on our plantation. I sees and dreams ‘bout them good old times, back yonder, to dis day.“