e well to wash my toe,
When I got back my chicken was gone
What time, Old Witch?'

"Then we would run and chase each other. Another game was played to the
counting-out by the rhyme that started:

'Mollie, Mollie Bright, three-score and ten.'

"Honey, there is no use to ask me about Raw Head and Bloody Bones. When
folks started talking about that, I always left the room. It is a shame
how folks do frighten children trying to make them get quiet and go to
sleep. I don't believe in ha'nts and ghosts. Since I have been grown, I
have been around so many dead folks I have learned that the dead can't
harm you; its the living that make the trouble.

"When his slaves were taken sick, Marse John always called in a doctor.
An old woman, who was known as 'Aunt Fannie,' was set aside to nurse
sick slaves. Dr. Joe Carlton was Marse John's doctor. What I am going to
tell you is no fairy tale. Once I was so sick that Marse John called in
Dr. Carlton, Dr. Richard M. Smith, Dr. Crawford Long, and Dr. James
Long, before they found out what was wrong with me. I had inflammatory
rheumatism and I wore out two and a half pairs of crutches before I
could walk good again. Now, Dr. Crawford Long is a great and famous man
in history, but it is sure true that he doctored on this old Negro many
years ago.

"Honey, don't flatter me. Don't you know a little girl 10 years old
can't remember everything that went on that far back. A few things they
dosed the slaves with when they were sick was horehound tea, garlic
mixed with whiskey, and the worm-few (vermifuge?) tea that they gave to
Negro children for worms. That worm-few dose was given in April.
Asafetida was used on us at all times and sage tea was considered a
splendid medicine.

"When news came that Negroes had been freed there was a happy jubilee
time. Marse John explained the new freedom to his slaves and we were
glad and sorry too. My mother stayed with Marse John until he died. I
was still a child and had never had to do anything more than play dolls,
and keep the children in the yard. Lord, Honey! I had a fine time those
days.

"It wasn't so long after the surrender before schools for Negroes were
opened. It looked like they went wild trying to do just like their white
folks had done. As for buying homes, I don't know where they would have
gotten the money to pay for homes and land.

"At the time I married I was a washerwoman for the white folks. My first
husband was Isaac