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	t Is de colored people superstitious ? Listen at dat  You makes me laugh. All dat foolishness fust started wid de ~aok nan. De reason they is superstitious comes from nothin but stomp~dowu ignorance. De white ohillun has been nursed by colored women end they has told them stories bout hauts and sich lak. So de white ohillun has growed up believin song of dat stuff tu they natohally pass it on from generation to generat ion. Here we is  both white and colored, still believin some of them 11es started back when de whites fst come to have de tie ~ks  round them.

t, If you wants to 1a~ow what I ~ thinks Is de best vittles   s gwine to be obliged to omit (admit) dat it is cabbage sprouts In de spring, and It is collard greens after frost has struck them. After de best vittles, dere cone some more what is mighty tasty, and they Is hoghoad and chlttlings wid tatoes end turnips. Did ~ou see dat? Here I is talkln bout de joys of de appetite and water drapping from n~ mouth. I  nust be gittin hongry. I lsk to eat  I has been a good eater all n~r life, but now I is gittin so old dat eordin to de scriptures, De grinders cease cause they are few, and too, Those dat look out de windows be thirkened  My old eyes end teeth is  bout on, and 1f they does go soon. t1~y aint gwine to beat dIs old frame long, cause I is gwlne to soon follow, I feels  I ~Dpe w~n I does go  I can be able to say what dat great General Stonewall Jackson say w1~n he got kIlt In de Civil War   I Is gwiae to cross de rIver and re at under de shade of de trees .


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