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dye the prettiest sort of purple wid sweetguin bark. Cop‘ras was used to keep de colors from fadin‘, and she knowed so well how to handle it dat you could wash cloth what she had dyed. all day long and it wouldn‘t fade a speck.

	“~Marster was too old to go to de war, so he had to stay home and he sho seed dat us done our wuk raisin‘, soinepin t‘eat. He had us plantallourcleared. ground, and I sho has done some hard wuk d«wn In dem old bottoirt lands, plowin‘, hoein‘, pullin‘ corn and. fodder, and I‘se even eut cordwood. and split rails. Deia was hard times and evvybody had to wuk.

	“Sometimes Marse Gerald would be away a week at a time when he went to court at Jefferson, and de very last thing he said ‘tore he driv off allus was, ~Ca‘line, you end de chillun take good. care of Mistess. ‚ ‚~ He niost allus fetched us new shoes i~ftien he come back, ‘éause he never kept no shoemake r man on our pla ce ‚ and a II o urshoeswas_store~bought.) Dey was jus‘ brogans wid brass toes, but us felt powerful dressed up when us got ‘ein on, ‘specially when dey was new and de brass was bright and shIny. Dere was nine or us chillun, four boys and five gals. Us gais had plain cotton dresses made wid long sleeves and. us ware big sunbonnets. What ~ould gals say now if dey had to wear dem sort of clothes and do wuk lak what us done? Little boys didn‘t wear nothin‘