Pace 8.
	Jhitley,	Driskell
1-21-37


	At breakfast the field hands ate fried meat, corn bread, and mo‘ lasses. when they went to the house for dinner they were given some kind of vegetable along with pot liquor and milk. ~ien the days work was done and it was time for the evening meal there was the fried meat again with the naolasses and the corn bread. Mr. Womble says that they ate this kind of food overy day in the week. The only variation was on Sunday when they were given the seconds of the flour and a little kore molasses so that they might Eake a czke. No other sweetening was used e~ccept the molasses.

	A;~S for Mr. ~j~able and the cook they fared better as they ate the same kind of food that the ~aster and his family did. 11e remembers how he used. to take biscuits from the dishes that were being sent to the masters t able • lie was the wal t er and thi s was an e asy matt er • Later he t ook s cme of these biscuits and sold them to the other little boys for a nickle each. ~itLer the master or the slaves had real coffee. They all drank a type of this beverage that had been made by parching bran or meal and then boiled in water.

	The younger children were fed from a trough that was twenty feet i_n length. ~t meal time each day the master would come out and supervise the eook whose duty it was to fill‘ the trough with food. ~‘or breakfast the milk and bread was all mixed together in the trough by the master who used his

;;alking cane to stir it ~vith. ~t dinner and supper the children were fed pot liquor end bread and sarietinies milk that had been mixed together in the saine manner. All sto3d back until the master had fini~he~ stirring the food and then at a given signal they dashed to the trough where they began e eating with their hands. some even put their mouths in the trough and ate. There were times when the master‘ s dogs and some of the pigs that ran round
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