The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-09-25

intended to say. AS soon as they
noticed that Cato was about to
say something, one or more of them
would speak out quite loudly some
comic or outlandish saying and Cato
would repeat exactly whet the other
said, word for word. | have seen him
rush at another, knife in hand, ours
ing and putting all out of the kitch-
en-. There was a small boy who was
a favorite with Cato and when his
plate with his meal was handed to
him,if there was a choice piece on it,
he would call Edward and give it to
him. On one occasion he called the
little fellow, naming the piece he was
about to give him. Some one at the
same time said, "Oh, the devil! Cato
said he boy eat the devil" All be-
gan to laugh and Cato's eyes flashed
fire and he cleared the house with
drawn knife.
There were old Daddy Billy, a
black African, and several others |
will not mention that We're on the
old rs" plantation, whose history
would take up too much time, but |
hope to tell more later on, so with
tear-dimmed eyes | will say farewell
to old "1S" and the loved ones that
have long ago departed.
have taken up much space tell
ing of those days and those faithful
old darkies, but / think it is good to
look as far back as we can and, as
Bill Arp used to say, ,ruminate on the
past and think of the loved ones that
have gone whom We so soon must fol-
low. 1t is good for US, even if it
causes an old hardened sinner to
shed some silent tears.
| forgot to mention something
about old Daddy Jacob. He drove
the team with wagon from the "18"
with sometimes load of hogs, calves
or sheep for the butchers. | loved
old Daddy Jacob, as l would be al
lowed sometimes to ride in the
f, wagon up to the plantation. He
would often have a heavy load of
groceries and other goods for Capt
Vose's store. Daddy Jacobs lead
mule in the team was named Buck,
a very good lead mule but very
wild and had to be handled with
care. He called him de debble
Buck" think Daddy Jacob was a
| foreign negro and his language was
very broken. The mule was quite
afraid of fire at night, and on a dark,
rainy night, many miles on the road,
with a heavy load of goods, some
boy came down with a torch of fire,
which frightened the mule, and,
wheeling round, he broke the axle
tree of the wagon and left poor old
Daddy Jacob in a sad predicament.
He told about the accident when he
got home, saying: Il tell de debble
boy not bring de fiah to de eye, but
de debble boy no very me an time
de fiah ketch de eye de mule fly
roun' de wagin cram down, sui"
Sometimes those in the kitchen would
begin to talk about the wagon acci-
dent to draw the old man out to tell
it over for their amusement.
| must now mention one more old
darky, Daddy Frank. one of the ante
bellum time. Daddy Frank was
owned by Mr. Samuel Burgess, one
of the best citizens of Clarendon
county, and old Frank while a slave
had great faith in "Massa," as he
! called Mr. Burgess. The Burgesses,
Eppses, Smiths and McElveens all
honored Uncle San" and what "Ur-
Gle Sam" said about anything was
considered fact. 1t was told on
Daddy Frank that when Uncle"
John Wilson was .leading him into
the water to be baptized, when it
got up to his waist he refused to 60
any farther. Parson Wilson said.