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quilted sometimes. Not. many worked in ~ fields on Saturday elTeflifl‘ s. They caught up on little jobs aroun‘ ~ the lot; a mending. / harness and such like. On Saturday nights the young folks got together and had little frolics and feasts, but the older folks was gettin‘ things ready for Sunday, ‘cause Marse .i3illywas, a mighty religious man: we had to go to church, and every last one of the children wa~ dragged along too.

	9We always had one week for Christmas. They brought ii~ as much ofgoodthings to eat as we could destroy in one week, but on 1~ew y;:i;~~~~8 Day we went back to work. No, Ma‘am, as I ricollect, we didn‘ t have ne corn shuckings or cotton pickings only what we had to do as part of our regular work.

	“The white folks mostly got married on Wednesday or Thursday evenin‘s. Oh~ they had fine times, with everything good to eat, and lots of dancing too. Then they took a trip. Some went to Te5cas and some to Chicago. They call Chicago, the colored folks‘ ::rew York now. I don‘t remember no weddings ‘xnongst the slaves. My cousin married on another plantation, but I warn‘t there.

	9!~here I was, there warn‘t no playing done, only

tmongst the little chillun, and I can‘ t remern‘ber much that far back.

I recall that we sung a little song, about:

‘little drops of water
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean .
And the pleasant land • ‚

	“Oh! Yes, Ma‘arn, Marse Billy was good to his slaves, ‘~rhen they got sick. He called in Dr. Jones Long, Dr. Harden, and Dr. Lurnpkin when they was real sick. There was lots of typhoid fever