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it 1~ab1e to bust ‚ but old. Master jump do~rn offtn his hoss and go ~ round to . de boiler and say, ttCuss fire to your black hearti Dat boiler all right! Throw on sorte cordvroocl, cuss fire to your heart!‘~

	Old Brown start to d~ wood ~ile grii~b1ing to hisseif and old Master stoo;; down to look at de boiler again, and it blow right up and him standing right dar!

	Old Master was blowed all to pieces, and dey jest find. little bitsy chunks of his clothes and parts of him to bury.

	De wood pile blow down, and old. Brown land way off in de woods, but he wasn‘t killed.

	Two wagons of cotton blowed over, and de mules run away, and all de nig~ers was scared nearly to death tcause we knowed de overseer gwine be a lot worse, now dat old Master goüe.

	Before de ~ar when Master was a young man de slaves didn‘t have it so

hard, my mammy tell me. He~name was Fanny and her old mammy name was Nanny.

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G~ranciina Nann~‘was alive during de War yet.

~	How she come in de Jones family was dis way: old Mistress was test a little girl, and. her older brother bôught Nanny and give her to her. I think his name was Little John, anywâys we called him Master Little John. He drawed. up a paper what say dat Nanny allus belong to Miss Betty and. all de chillun Nanny ever have belong to her, too, and nobody can‘t tske Tem for a debt and. things like dat • When Miss Betty marry, old Master he cane t sell Nanny or any of her chillim neither.

	Dat paper hold good. too, and grandmammy tell me about one time it hold good and. keep my own mainilly on de place.

	G~randmaxnmy say mammy was jest a little gal and was playing out in de road. wid three, four other little chillun when a white man and. old. Master rid. up. The white man had a paper about corne kind of a debt, and. old Master say