through. i)e Yankees burned and stole everything on de place. They took ‚off all de sheep, imiles, and cows; killed all de hogs~ cotch all de chiok~ ens, ducks and geese; and shot de turkeys and tied them to deir saddles as they left. D~ gin—house made de bi~est blaze I ever has seen. Dere was short rations for all de white folks and ni~gers after dat day.

	111n 1870 I was still dere wid L~iarse Wade a~c~ i~iss Tilda, when de

devil come along in de ‚ shape ‚ forint and fashion of a m~n • He was name Ha1le~. I was young then, and a fool, wh~n I n~rried dat no ~ nigger. Us had two chillun, a boy, Allen, and a girl, Louise. Louise sickened and died befot she was grown. i~l1en married and i~ad one o~~ild, but him and de child are dead. Ii~ husband ruii away and left us.

	“About de time of de great cyclone, Miss Tatt Nicholson, a cousin of Miss Tilda, corne do~ii and took rae to 0hester, to be a maid at de Nitholson Hotel. Iljked de work, but I ~ot many a scarewhile I was dere. In them days every hotel had a barwhere they would mix whiskey and lemons. Lien could just walk up, put deir foots on de brass rail of de bar counter and order what they ‘want, and pay fifteen cents a drink. Sometimes they t~~ould play cards all night in de bar. One night an old gent stopped his wagon~, dat had four bales of cotton on it, befo‘ de hotel. He corne in to get a drink, saw a game going on and took a hand. i3efo‘ bed time he had lost all his money and de four bales of cotton outside.

	“No, I didn‘t work in slavery times. Chillun didn‘t have to work. De only thing I ‘members doing was minding de flies off de table vrid a brush made out of peacock tail—feathers.

	“All de slaves had to go to church at Concord twice every i~ønth and learn de Shorter Catechism. I has one of them books now, dat I used seventy—
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