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The riding boa8 would come round about nixie ‘ clock to. see it you had gone to bed or not. If‘ they could steal a chicken or pig and kill and cut it lip, this one gould take a piece and that one would take a piece and they would burn the cotton to keep down the scent. The rider would come round in 3\ine and ~Tu1y too when they thought the people would be hunting the watermelons.

~‚ “When the soldiers came, the niggers run and hid under the beds and the soldiers came and poked their bayonets under the bed and shouted, ‚ Come on out from under there • ‘ re free ~‚


~ ~ ~ ~.~----~-—--—~-----— Destructiveness of Soldiers

	~The soldiers would tear down the beehives and break up the ~ioke

hou8es. They wasn‘t tryin‘ to git nothin‘ to eat. They was just destroy— ing things for devilment. They j~illed all the stoppers out of the molasses. They cut the smoked rosat down and let it fall in the molasses.


Rations

	“Every Saturday, they would give my father and his wiTh halt a gallon of molasses, 80 much side meat. And then they would give halt a bushel ot meal I reckon, Whatever they would give they would give ~m right out or the ~noke house. Sweet potatoes they would give. Sugar and cotres they‘d make. There wasn‘t nothing 1bout buying no sugar then.
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how the Day Went

	“The riding boss would come round before the day broke and wake you up. You had to be in the field before sun-up-—that is the man would. The woman who had. a little child had a little mors play than the man,