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then. I don‘ t know nothing abSout no herba, they used for diseases; only boneset and hoarhound tea for colds and croup. Th~p~ut ~penriIe (pennyroyal) in the hou8e to keep out flies and fleas, and if there was a flea in the house he would shoo from that place right then and there. ~

	“The old folks put little bags of assfiddy (assafoetida) around their chillun‘s necks to keep off rneaslesand chickenpox, and they used turpentine and castor oil on chiliun‘s gums to make ‘em teethe easy. When I was living on Milledge Avenue, I had Dr. Crawford

w.	Long to see about one of my babies, and he slit that baby‘ s gums so the teeth could come through. That looked might bad to rie, but they don‘ t believe in old ways no more.“

	She laughed and said:	“No, Matam, I don‘ t know nqthing about such low down things as hants and ghostst Rawhead and Blooiy Bones, I just thought he was a skelerpin, with no meat on him. Course lots of Negroes believe in ghosts and hants. Us chillun done lots of flightin‘ like chillun will do. I remember how little Marss Mark Stroud used to take all the little boys on the plantation and teach ‘em to play Dixie on re‘eds what they called quills. That was good music, but the radio has done away with all that flow.

	t, I knowe d I was a s lave and tha t ~ j t wa s the War t ha t sot nie free. It was ‘bout dinner time when Marse i3illy ‘come to the door and called us to the house. He pulled out a paper and read it to us, and then he said: ‘You all are free, as I am.‘ We couldn‘t help thinking aoout what a good marster he always had been, and how old, and feeble, and gray headed he looked as he kept on a-~talkin‘ that day. ‘Tou all can stay on here with me if you want to,‘ he