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Dar wuz one thing dat massa aLn~t 1low an~ dat wuz drinkint ‘mong his nigger~.

	~‘]~ar wuz a oie free issue named Denson who digged ditches fer massa an‘ he always brung 1on~: his demijolin wid his whiskey. One ebenin‘ Mis~ua tčlis me an~

Caroline ter go ter de low ~roun‘s ~ git Up de cows ~t on de way we fin‘ oie man Denson‘s deinijohn half

fti 11 of whi skey . Caro line s ez ter le ts take e r drink ~~r‘ so we does, an‘ terreckly I gits wobbly in de knees+

	ttfij8 keeps on till I has ter lay do~i an‘ when I

wakes up I am at home. Dey sais dat Massa Jacob totes me, an1 dat he fusses wid Denson fer leavin‘ d~e i~ihiskey whar• I can fin‘ it. He give me a talkin‘ to, an~ I ain‘t neber drunk no niere.

	ttWhen we hyard dat de Yankees wuz comm1 oie massa

~	an~ me takes de cattle an‘ hosses way down i~n de swariip an‘ we stays dar wid dem fer seberal days ~ One day I comes ter de house axi‘ dar dey am, shootin‘ ~ chickens au‘

I pigs an~ everthuxig. I‘se seed dem ci~it d~e hŕms off‘n a
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t live pig or ox an‘ go off leavin‘ de animal groanin‘.
\\~ De massa had ‚ eir~ kilt ‘den ‚ but,. it wuz awful.

‚ “Dat night dey went away but de nex‘ day a bigger drove come~ant ~y j~r~jy ~oked fer ‘em all day long.

I~ey killed an‘ stold. ever‘thing, an‘ at last oie ma~a went to Ealeighan~ axed fer a gyard. Atter we got de
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