SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

know what to do*"
Emma Sanderson Hudgins 1.S3
Dining room and living room joined one another by
means of a high and vide arch* The stove was sensibly
set up in this passage* Both rooms were comfortably
furnished with products which had in all probability
been bought new* The child stood close by thruout the
eiitire conversation. There was no whit of timidity
about him , nor was he the le-st impertinent. Ee was
frankly interested and wanted to know whrt was being
said* He received the dime and the pennies with a
pleasant grin and a ( grandmother prompted) "Thank you"
But the gift didn f t startle him* Dimes must have been
a fairly usual Dart of his life* But a few minutes before
d
the interviewer left she ropped her pencil* It was new
and iong and yellow* The child f s eyes clung to it as he
returned it* "Would you like to have it*" the young woman
asked, "would you like a pencil of your very own. to draw
with ?" Would hei The child f s whole face beamed. Dimes .
were as nothing compared to shiney new pencils, the fthird
grandchild" was overjoyed with his new plaything. Ella
Sanderson was delighted v.ith her grert brandchild f s pleasure*
The interviewer rec ived a warm and friendly "Good-bye"