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	U!~r marater was not bi rich lak de Davises, de Means, and de Harpers,


b1:tt him have all them people come to see hirn. Him know a heap of things dat~  they predate. De way to dye cloth was one of dose secrets. Marster have a madder bed. Him take de roots of dat madder put them in de sun just lak you put out pieces of apples and peaches to msi~e dried fruit. Vihen them roots gt riht dry, him have them ground up fine as water~ground meal. He put de fine (iU~3t ifl a pot and boil it. ~hen he want~red cloth, he just drop de cloth in d~t pot and it come out all red to suit you. Want it 1~Iue, him have a indigo natch for dat.

	t I never hear anything ~ bout alum dose days  Well  de slaves could

take peach tree leaves and alum and make yellow cloth and old cedar tops and copperas and make tan cloth. walnut stain and coppras and make any cloth brown. Sweet-gum bark and copperas and make any cloth a purple color. I mein.~ ber goin wid one into de woods to gt barks. One day old marster come cross a slippery elm tree. Him turn and ooxmnand me to say right fast: Long, slim, slick saplin and when I say long, slim, sick slaplin  him tmost kill hisself laughin ~ You try dat no~ You find it more harder to say than you thirk it is  Him give me a piece of dat bark to chew and I run at de ~nou~h lak you see a hess dat been on de range of wild clover all night and slobberin at de bits~

	Yes sah, I blongs to de churoh~ l~r wife and son, L~ingo, just us three in de house and de whole household jined de Morris Creek Baptist Church. Whats Thy favorite song ? None better than de one dat I  Il h Ist right now. Go ahead? I thaxks you. Listen:

M I born to die	. ~
	. ~ ~ To lay dis body down 	. ~
.	~ charge to keep I ha~e	~ ~

~k God to glorify.
	(	J