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ay and have a big time playing with them and we would go around with them on when they were gone and couldn't see us. 25. Do you remember when you first saw your first windmill? Never did see one. 26. Do you remember when you first saw bed springs instead of bed ropes? Yes. When I was a slave, I slept in a gunny sack bunk with the sacks nailed against the wall on two sides, in a corner of the room and then there was a post at the corner of the bed and two poles nailed from the post to the walls and the gunny sacks were nailed to those poles. My bed was a two-story bed. There was another gunnysack bed above me with poles fastened to the same post. We tore old rags and made rag rugs for quilts to cover us with. I worked in the doctor's house in the daytime but I had to sleep in the shed at night. Then after I wasn't a slave no more, I never slept on anything else but a rope bed. When springs come I wondered what anyone wanted wid 'em. Rope beds was good enough. 27. When did you see the first buggy and what did it look like? The doctor, he had the best of such things. He had a regular buggy and sometimes he driv two horses in hit. Uncle Albert, he wuz his driver. When the doctor wanted to put on great style, and go to the station to meet some rich company he had one of the fancy cabs with the driver sittin' up high in front, but when he went to see his patients, he'd take his feet to go around. He had two saddle packs with a strap that he would throw over his shoulder. He would have one pack hanging in front and the other hanging behind. 28. Do you remember your grandparents? No, my mother's mother was taken from her and sold when she was a baby. So I never seed my grandmother and I don't know any more about my grandfather than a _goose about a band box_. 29. Do you remember the money called "shin-plasters?" I've seen plenty. I guess my master had barrels of them. 30. What interesting historical events happened during your youth,--such as Sherman's Army passing through your section? Did you witness the happenings and what was the reaction of the other Negroes to them? Sherman's army went through Perry but they did not do any damage there. They expected them to come and buried lots of food and valuable things, and when they came they took them to the smoke houses and told them to help themselves. They did not burn any houses there. 31. Did you know any Negros who enlisted or joined the northern ar
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