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	~Soxae o:t~ dem slave8 never wanted no ‘ligion, and dey jus‘ ‘laughedat UB cause us testified àxid shouted. One day at church a good old ‘oman got right ‘hind a Nigger dat She had done made

	up her mind she was gwine to see saved ‘fore dat meeti~i‘ ended. She drug ‘im up to de mourner‘~s bench. He. ‘lowed he never made no prep‘ rat ion t o c orne 1x1 di s world and dat he didn ‚ t mean ‘to . ~ make none to leave it • She prayed and prayed ‚ but • dat f~o1 Nigger just laugb~ed right out at her. Finally d‘e ‘oman got mad. ‘Laugh if you will,‘ she told dat man, ‘flè GoOdLawd is gwine to p~args out your sins for sho, and when you gits Lull ot biles and sores you‘ll be powerrul glad to git sontebody to pray ~or you. Dat am‘ t au; de same Good Lawd is gwine to lick you a thousand. lashes tor evvy time you is done maße run of dis very ineetin‘,‘ Missy, would you believe I t ‚ it warn‘ t no time ‚ rore dat man sic4cex~ed and died right out wid. a cancer in his mouf. Does you ‘~iember dat old sayin‘ ‘De ways oi~ de Lawd is slow but sho?‘ .

	~	“Corpses was washed good soon atter de rolkses died and deir clothes put on ‘em, den dey was‘ laid on cooUn‘ boards ‘tu deir cornus was made up. Why Missy, didn‘t you know dey didn‘ t have no ‘ —boùght coi~f~ins dem days ? Dey made ‚ em up right dere on de plantation. ~ De corp3e was measured and de coffin made to fit it. Soznetimesd~waslined wid black calico, and. soxaetimes dey painted ‘em black on de outside. Dere wara‘t no ~ undytakers den, and dere warn‘t none o~ dem vaults to set coffifls