he's 'bout two years old. I eases |
| up and knocks de window out and coaxes her to come to me. |
| 'Nother) |
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| Page 258: Day (woman a big, red pocket handkerchief and a |
| bottle of liquor. He buyed dat liquor by de barrel and liked |
| it hisself. #Dat# why he allus had it on de place.) |
| |
| Page 262: outselves ("We mos'ly lived on corn pone and salt |
| bacon de marster give us. We didn't have no gardens |
| #ourselves#, 'cause we wouldn't have time to work in dem. We |
| worked all day in de fields and den was so tired we |
| couldn't) |
| |
| Page 263: Weht (usually split from hem to neck and I had to |
| wear them till they was strings. #Went# barefoot summer and |
| winter till the feets crack open.) |
| |
| Page 267: bit ("Dey feeds us well sometimes, if dey warn't |
| mad at us. Dey has a big trough jes' like de trough for de |
| pigs and dey has a #big# gourd and dey totes de gourd full |
| of milk and dey breaks de bread in de milk. Den my mammy) |
| |
| Page 289: whay (us call Massa John, and he wife, Miss |
| Lizzie, and we is de only cullud folks #what# dey owns.) |
| |
| Page 292: everhas (more carpet baggers and liars dan you |
| ever has seed, and you'll be worse off den you #ever has# |
| been, if you has anythin' to do with dem. Den she opens de |
| book and tells us all when us born and how old us am, so us |
| have some record 'bout) |
| |
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