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"I reckin thar was' bout two er three hun'erd acres in Marse Jim's place. Us raised cotton, taters, an' hogs. No'm, slaves didn' have no plots er dey own. Marse Jim give us our rashins' every week. Well, mos' er de cullud people 'ud cook dey victuals over de fire place in dey own houses. Us sho' did have 'possum an' taters. "My mammy wuked in de loom room at night by light of a pine knot.
If you go as John Crumb's wife you'll go with five hun'erd pound, and we'll have a dinner here, and a dance, and all Bungay. 'Who cares for all Bungay, a set of beery chaps as knows nothing but swilling and smoking; and John Crumb the main of 'em all? There never was a chap for beer like John Crumb.
'There's a hun'erd and fifty poond o' things in my house forbye what mother left behind her. After this there was no more conversation till Ruby reappeared with the boiled fowl, and without her apron. She was followed by the girl with a dish of broiled ham and an enormous pyramid of cabbage.
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