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‘long fine wid our drapping. When it come up everybody could see dorn rows dat us had done got mixed up on when de overseer was dar. Marse Torn was dat good to his hands dat dey all love him all de t5~me. But one day #ien oie man Evans come through de fi~ld and see dem rows he did call me and John off and whip us. Dat de most dat I ever got *ipped. Marss got shed o‘ de overseer soon atter dat. ~

	“It was j*st like dis. 01e man Wash Evans was a wicked mari. tie take ‘vantage of all de slaves when he git half chance. He was great source of worrirnent to my Mammy, oie lady Lucy Price and ‘nother ‘oman, oie lady Lucy Charles. Course he ‘vantag.e over all de dark&es and fer dat reason he could~ sway everything his way, mostail de time. But my mammy and oie lady Lucy was ‘ligious wirnmens. Dat didn‘t make no diffuns wid wicked old man Evans. One day Missus sont my meramy and de other oie lady Lucy to fetch her some blackberries by dinner.

	“Me end J9hn was wid d~n a pickin‘ and fillin‘


o, de big buckets from de lii‘ buckets when oie man Evans corne
dey
riding up. He argued wid both maxrniy and oie lady L&~cy and/kept

telling him dat de missus want her berries and dat dey was ‘ligious wimrnens anyhow and did&t practice no life o‘ sin and

vile wickedness. Finally he got down off‘n his hoss and pull out his whip and low if dey didn‘t submit to him he gw‘ine to beat dem half to death. A1~me and John took to de woods. B~t we peep. My mammy end old lady Lucy start to crying and axing him not to whip dem.