Indians made Slaves aniong t}~ Negroe8
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	shoulders were warped and their bodies twisted but they were strong as iron

men from their years of toil. ~1hen the funeral was over mother put u~ across the river on the gunnel and we went home, all missing ~1istress Hester.

-	ttL~y oousin worked at Princeton, Kentucky, nin.king shoes. He had never


been noti fled that he was free by the kind emancipation Î~Trs • Hester had given to her slaves, and he caine loaded with money to give to his white folks. Mis-‘ tress Lorainne told him it was his o~n money to keep or to use, as he had been a free man several months.

	“As our people, white and blac~1c and Indians, sat talking they related how they had been warned of approaching trouble. Jack said the dogs had been howling around the place for znaiiy nights and that always presaged a death in

	the family. Jack had been compelled to take off his shoes and turn them soles I up near the hearth to prevent the howting of the dogs. Uncle Robert told how

he believed some of Mistress Hester‘s enemies had planted a shrub near her

.	door and planted it with a ourse so that ‘when the shrub bloomed the old woman

	passed away. Then another man told how a friend had been s~ei~i carrying a spade

;; into his cousin‘s cabin and the cousiA had said, ‘Daniel, what foh you brung ~: that weaoon into by cabin? That very spade will dig my grave,‘ and sure


~	enough the couzein had died and~the same spade had been used in digging his grave.

“How my childish nature qualled at hearing the superstitions dis-‘

~	eus aed ‚ I o annot explain. I have never be lieved in witohoraft nor s pells ‚ but

I	~ remember my Indian grandmother predicted a long, cold winter vthen she noticed

I the pelts of the coons and other furred creatures were exceedingly heavy. ~hen

I	the breastbones of‘the fowls were strong and hard to severwith the knife it was a s ign of a ‚ o old and snowy winter • Another superstition was this : ‚ A green Winter, a new graveyard - a white winter, a green graveyard.~

	George Fortinan relates how, when he accompanied two of his cousinS into
the lowlands -‘-‘-there were very many Katy~dids in the trees ---‚ their voices