a horee whoop (whip) • They called me outs Grandma and auntie 80 seared they hid. They tole me to git em water. They poured it some whah it did not spill on the ground, Kept me totin‘ water. Then they say, wYou bin a good boy?“ They still drinkin‘ • One say, w3‘ust fr~ Hell pretty dry.“ Then they tole me to stand on my head. I turned swmner sets a f‘OW times. They tickled me round ‚id the ends of the whoops. I had on a long shirt. They laugh when I stand on my head. Old Mare ihite laughed. I knowed his 1au~h~ Then I got over my scare. They say, “Who live next down the road?“ I tole em NeUe Christian. They say, “What he do?“ I said, ~Works in the field.“ They all grunts 1n~‘~m«4n-m. Then they say, ~Show us the way.~ I nearly ru~n to death cross the field to keep outer the way of the ~tite horses. The moon shining bright as day. They say Nails come out here. He say “Roly Moses . „ He CŒII8 out • They say “Ne~1e what you doD‘ “I farms.‘ They say “What you raise?“ He say “Cott on and corn. „ They say “Take us to see yo cotton we jess from Hell. We ain‘t got no cotton there.“ He took em out there where it was clean. They got down and felt it. Then they ~ “What is dat?“, feelin‘ the grass. Nells say “That la grass.“
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They say, “You raise grass too?“ He said, “No. It coxae up.“ They say “Let us see yo corn. „ He showed em the corn. They telt it. They say

“What this?“ Neue say, “It grass.“ They say, “You raise grass here?“ They all grunt ~ everything Neue say, They give him one bad whoopin‘ an‘ tell hirn they be back soon see if he raisin‘ grass, They said ‘You raise cotton and corn ~t not grass on this tarm. „ They they moan, “m-m~~m~4n . „ I herd em say his ~io1e femily and him t oo was out by day light wid their hoes cuttin‘ the grass out their crop. I was
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