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bedroom where I could see him when I pulled the curtains back a bit and he was steady staring toward the house and then when he climbed over the garden fence and was coming toward the house then was when I made tracks. I never shut or locked a door, just took off down the road to Mrs. Carvers but when I got down as far as the branch I looked back and he was outside of the backyard gate running so I took off still faster, but when I was quite aways up on the hill I looked back and he was nearly at the branch by that time and had stopped following me but I went on to Mrs. Carvers and she was gone so I went on to Mrs. Kennedy's and she was gone so her mother and daddy lived a little ways farther on so they were all over there and when they saw me so out of breath until I couldn't talk for a few minutes it scared them all nearly to death. They thought something had happened to my father so when I got able to tell them what had happened they all got mad. They said your daddy aught to have better sense than to leave you by yourself. So then in a few minutes here he come with dandy our old standby simply flying. He was scared good fashion but I won't tell what they all said to him. I never did stay by myself any more.
A man by the name of Freeman had a barroom across the Pearl River and negroes were always going through our lane to the barroom in Gainesville night and day. Some had already been and was coming back with a bundle in their arms staggering. Our road ran right through our lane between our front yard and our field as I've already said before.
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