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Interviewer Mima Irene RobertSOB
Person Interviewed Mary Seott
Age Pe¥alls Bluff or Biaeoe
M I said if ever I seed you agin I'd show you dis here scar
on my head* See here (a puffed-out, black, rusty, not quite
round place, where no hair grewj, Dat dar what my young mistress
put on me when I was a chile. Dock Hardy hired me. He was rich
and married a pore gal. It went to her head. He was good to me.
She was mean. She had him whoop me a time or two for no thin 1 .
They had two little babies, I stayed round wid, I loved em, / I
churned, brought in all "the wood mighty near, brought bout a^l
the water from the spring. Master Dock be coming horseback from
Franklin, Tennessee, I knowed bout time I take the babies to
meet him, He*d wait at a big stump we could climb on his horse,
take the baby in front and us up behind him, and put us ©ff on
the hack piazza at the house, I wrapped up the churn and quit.
She ax me what I quit churnin' for, I say the butter come. She
say it ain't had time, I say it ready to take up anyhow. She
got so mad she throwed a stick of stove wood, hit me on my head,
I run out crying, the blood streamin 1 down, I started to the
spring, come back and got the water bucket. I got me some water
and brought back a fresh bucket full. I washed my head in cool
water where it was bleedin'. It bled all way back. She say,
''Ahere you been?' I say I been to the spring, brought some cool
water to the babies. I give em some I told her. When I got