~x.s1ave Stories	.	~ Four
Page Four
(Texa.)


Ils pleased t• see ay ma~‘, 1*t after a ~ew d~ays I wants to go ba,c~ to Marshall with Marster Zeke. Dat was ~y home, so I kep‘ pesterin‘ marster to fetch me back, but he s].lpB off and~ leaves me. I has to Btay and. I‘i been here ever since,

	“I gite ~ fust job with Carter Cannon, on a farm, and. stays seven years. Den I goes to Fort Worth and takes a job coo~in‘ in de Gran‘ Hotel for three years. Den I goee to Dallas and. cooks for private fa~iliee, and wo 1ks for Maret er Jamee lilie on for 30 years, I at ope four years e~o and comes out here to wait tifl de good Lawd calls me home.

	“Bout gittin‘ married, after I quits de Gran‘ Hotel I marries and wetu,ns has two chilien. My wife died three years later.

	“Tou~ knows, I believe. I‘s mo‘ contented as a slave. l‘s treated kind. ai]. de time and. kiwi no frettin‘ ‘bout how I gwine git on. Since I~s been free, I sometimes have heaps of frettin‘. ~ouree, I don‘ want to go back into slavery, but I ‚ s paid for my freedom.

	“I‘s never been sick abed, but I~s had. mo‘ misery dis las‘ year dan an. my life. It‘i my heart. If I hive till Deceniber, I~ll be 102 years old, and di s oie heart have been p~tmpin ‚ aM pump in‘ all dem years and have mie sed nary a beat till die las‘ year. I knows ‘twon‘t be long till de good Lawd. calls di. oie nigger to criss de Ribber Jordan and I~s ready for de Lawd. when he calls.