"No muma never owned any thing, always rented and aint never owned nothing but a passel of children.
"My muma was a genuine Indian. Some people say you can't own Indians. I don't know how cum, but I do know she was owned by these people, but she surely was an Indian. Every body knows me all over Virginia.
"When I use to be in dining room service I would hear de white folks talk, and, do you know, Miss Sue you can hear a lot that way?
"Moster said he couldn't sell me 'cause I was so little. Just kept me fur to wait on de little chillun in de house.
"Miss Sue, you'll have to give me something for telling you all dis here, if it ain nothing but a horse cake.
"I've seen lots of dis world in travel. Done bin to Baltimore City; done bin to Philidelphia.
"I aint gwine give you no more, gal.
"Yes, to Lynchburg, den I worked at Mont Royal School, Baby, where Mrs McDaniel was manager.
"The man gwine say, 'dat woman bin some where.' If I stayed long enough I mighta got some learning but I stayed only one year. Got tired of that place. From one season to another is a year, aint it? Ah! Lord!
"Young folks now adays are just fur a good time, and a good time too they have. Yes, Siree Bob!