Project 1655
Genevieve W. Ch~dier	FOLKLORE
Georgetown Coui~ty, S. C.		211
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~SIAV~ STØ~Y

UNCJ~~ WILLIS WILLIM~tS



You can do as you please. You have to fadge for yourself now.‘

	‚t ~ss John WiIIiama had four hundred slavee. He was a man ~• the

colored people. He didn‘t work all on his o~i plantation. He‘d hire out hi~ people to work turpentine. ~-— F\~it ‘ein out for so much a year. He‘d give ‘em Hanket, suit, coat, pants. First of the yesr come, Boss would collect wages for all he hire out.

	t, That there my second wife. You know ho~ a r~an is. How many wIfe I had? Two or three. Le~mne sees (Looking at present wife) You is onei You the last oneZ Fust one been Jinny Lind. Next one been Wary Dick$on. And Caressa F~ratt been onej And there been another ones I fcrgot that wt~rnan names Got It in rr~y mouth and ~tn‘t call it~ I‘ll call the name of them otheri I take up with in a little wh1le~ One w~.s Calme ; one was Tissue; (Tisha?) I take them a little while and if they dIdn‘t do to suit n~, I put ‘em outi Some I didn‘t sta~r with long nuff to find out they nari~ Jinny Lind sister was Tiasue. Jinny Lind gone, try her sister. Ju3t a ‘i~.ke cut‘. If they didn‘t do b suit me, I‘d ~lve ‘em the devil and put ~em out

t, DOfl?ã~ know bout beating woz~. Zorns say that boute

	t Woir~iu, dog, cypress knee

More you beat ‘ein the better they beJ‘

	‘t But 8O!T~ woman, the mcre you beat ‘em the worse the devil gets in‘e~n. Get so they won‘t ‘GEE‘ nor ‘RAW‘.