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"I 'membahs all 'bout de slave time. I was powerful small but my mother and daddy done tole me all 'bout it. Mother and daddy bofe come from Vaginny; mother's mama did too. She was a weaver and made all our clothes and de white folks clothes. Dat's all she ever did; just weave and spin. Gran'mama and her chilluns was sold to the Lett fambly, two brothers from Monroe County, Alabama.
Look yar! And so saying, my companion seized the tail, and pulled seemingly with all his might but to no purpose. "`Did you see the animal when it was outside? I inquired. "`Yes, Massa; see 'im and chase 'im 'till I tree him yar in dis cave. "`What was it like? "`Berry like a pig maybe more belike ole 'possum, but cubberd all ober wi' shell like a Vaginny turtle.
On reaching the spot where Cudjo was, I found him bending over a crevice or hole in the ground, from which protruded an object very much like the tail of a pig. "`What is it, Cudjo? I asked. "`Don't know, Massa. Varmint I never see in Vaginny looks someting like de ole 'possum. "`Catch hold of the tail, and pull him out, said I. "`Lor! Massa Roff, I've tried ma best, but can't fetch 'im no how.
This was the question that puzzled us. "It did not puzzle all of us though. Fortunately there chanced to be a bee-hunter among us a real old bee-hunter, and that individual was our famous Cudjo. Cudjo had `treed' bees many's the time in the woods of `Ole Vaginny, and cut down the trees too, and licked the honey for Cudjo was as sweet upon honey as a bear.
Even Cudjo, who in `ole Vaginny' had bolted 'coons, 'possums, and various other `varmints, for a long time hung back. Seeing, however, that I was eating with evident relish, he held out his sable paw, and desired me to help him to a small piece.
Cudjo, however, did the business at last, by constructing a trap such as he said he had often caught raccoons with in `old Vaginny. This was arranged something on the principle of the wire mouse-trap; and the spring consisted in a young tree or sapling bent down and held in a state of tension until the trigger was touched, when it instantly flew up, and a heavy log descended upon whatever animal was at the bait, crushing or killing it instantly.
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