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They took his horse and he finally come home on a mule that dldn f t
have but three legs* I guess the Yankees give him the mule. He turned
the old mule loose and said he never wanted to see another Yankee # If
he saw any kind of a white man eomin' down the road he run in the house
and hid between the feather bed and the mattress*
"One time the Yankees come and drunk the sweet milk and took all
the butter, turkeys and hogs and then broke the powder horn against
the maple tree*
"The oook say 9 I 9 m gwine tell Marse Joe you drink all this milk. 9
The Yankees say, 'Let the damn fool alone — here we are try in 1 to free
her and she ain f t got no sense. 9 They said there wouldn't be any more
hard times after the war*
"But I sure have seen some hard times* I have washed and cooked
and done 'bout everything*
"When I get up in the morning I got the limburger (lumbago) in my
back so I ain't able to do much* Sometimes I have something to eat and
sometimes I don't."
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