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	A oie colored fiddler, named Fred Roberts, sent word he‘d buy it from

me. He even got so fraid he wouldn‘t get it that he come for it.

	‘1~ft~at‘11 you take for him‘, he asked me, and before I could say anything

he says,‘flhi give a dollar for hirn‘.

	That was a lot of money for me an‘ boy like I sold him then and there. I Coulda got two or maybe three dollars for him. Fred taken him to town an‘ fed. him live hens and raw meat. On court days or when there was a oi‘awd in town he showed him for ten cents a look. I bet he made ~5O.OO on hirn. People yousta to come for nibs to see that eagle. He finally died.

	Fishin‘ was good too. We out our poles in the woods an‘ used to flax thread for lines. ~Jhere people built water-‘gaps in fences that crossed the creeks the water‘d fill in till it made a dam. Then the oreek spread behind

~	it. Them water holes was full o‘ perch an‘ oat fish. They didn‘t get muoh bigger than your hand but they bit fast and we had lots o‘ fun catohin‘ ‘ein.

~	CiRISTIAN CO. (Mamie Hanberry)

	Annie B. I3byd, born August 22nd 1851, resides at oorner of Liberty and First Street, Hopkinsville, Kentuoky. Born a slave belonging to Charles Ca2~irnaok near Gordonsville, Ke~ftuoky in Ch.rtstiar County. “My mother and me war put on de block in front of de Courthouse in Hopkinsville and sold to Mr. Newt. Catlett and we brung 4~5OO.OO. Marse Catlett lived on the corner ~• of Seventh and Clay Streets, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. W‘en I was older the white folks had me foh to nurse dar ohilluns. I noes wen de~.r broke out marse had a store and den marsa took me to his wife‘s kinfolks down in de country till freedom war declared den my stepfather corne an‘ got me. Of course I hed ter work and den I went ter nurse foh Dr. Fairleigh and missed his daughter Madge. De white fotke wont good to me. My raarster was a good maii1~ut my missus wont no goodwcman. She. uster box.my etrs, stiok pins in