"I guess you had plenty to eat in those good old days?"
"Oh, yes ma'm—dey's kill a hunnard hogs."
"And what kind of houses did you have?"
"Des like dis street—two rows facin' each odder, only dey wus log houses."
"Did they have only one room?"
"Yas'm. But sometimes dey drap a shed room down if dere wus heap o' chullun.'
"Did you have a good time at Christmas?"
"Oh yas'm. No matter where Marster wus—crost de water er ennywhere he send us a barrel o' apples, and chestnuts—dey had chestnuts in dem days—and boxes o' candy. He sont 'em to 'Manuel and Mr. DeLoach to gib out."
"So your master would sometimes be across the water?"
"Lawdy, yas'm, he be dere somewhere in de back part o' de world. You see he wus gov'nur. He knowed all de big people—Mr. Ben Tillman and all—he was senetra."