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“I knows dat de marster witz good ter us an‘ he fed

an‘ clothed us good . We had our own gyarden an‘ we wuz ii‘ long all right .

	“I seed a whole heap of Yankee.s when dey co~ed ter Hilisboro an‘ most of ‘em ain‘t got no respeck fer God, man, nor de debil. I an‘ t ‘member so much ‘bout ‚ em do ‚ cause we lives in town an ‚ we bas a gyard.

/“~e most dat i can tell yo‘ ‘bout am de Ku Klux. I

neber will fergit when dey hung Cy Guy. Dey hung him fer a

scandelous insult ter a white ~oman an‘ dey coined atter him~

a hundert strong .

	“Dey tries hini dar in de woods, an‘ dey scratches Cy ‘s ami ter git some blood, an ‚ wid dat blood dey writes dat he shall hang ‘tween de heavens an‘ de yearth till he am daid ‚ daid ‚ daid ‚ an‘ dat any nigger what take s down de body shall be hunged too.

	“We li sar ‚ de nex ‚ mornin ‚ dar he hung ‚ right ob er de road an‘ de sentence hangin ‚ ober his haid. Nobody ‘ud• bother wid dat body fer four days an‘ dar hit hung, swingin‘ in de wind, but de foa‘th day de sheriff cames an‘ tak~es hit
down.	‚

	“Dar wuz Ed an ‚ Cindy ‚ who ‘fore de war belonged ter Mr. L~rnch an‘ atter de war he told ‘em ter move. He gives ‘ein a month an‘ dey ain‘t gor~e ‚ so de ~u Kiuxes gits ‘ein.