I uster work on steamboats, and on de railroad and at sawmillin'.
Back in slavery time dey uster have a white preacher to come 'roun' and preach to de cullud folks.
But I don't 'member much 'bout de songs what dey uster sing.
Dey uster have lots of fun playin' 'hide and seek,' and 'hide de switch.
Dey uster sen' stuff to Terry on a railroad to sen' it to market.
We uster ride stick hosses and play 'roun' at all dem t'ings what chillun play at.
I once knowed a woman who had some lodestone dat she uster work.
Dey uster take women away fum dere husbands an' put wid some other man to breed jes' like dey would do cattle.
Not so long ago a woman whut uster live back of me tried to do sumpin' to me after we had a fuss.
My grandmother uster sleep wid de sissors under her pillow to keep 'em away.
I had a friend named Joe once an' he uster fool 'roun wid roots an' stuff like dat.
I uster love to play and to get out of all the work I could.
Other folks usterput 'em on de block an' sell 'em like dey would a chicken or sumpin' like dat.
De rest o' de slaves ustergit whuppins sometimes fer not workin' like dey should.
The old folk on the plantashun uster tell us younguns if we didn't hurry back from the spring with the water buckets, the hants and buggoos would catch us.
We uster go mornin' and evenin', and the white people sat on one side and the slaves on the other.
Wen we uster wash quilts we uster cyt a nikasses varrek ubter eb dat made de tub deb my Mammy would put water in dese tubs den soft soap de quilts den us chilluns would git in de tubs in our Bare foots en tromp de dirt out.
Dese ole nigger slave traders uster so my Mammy said, steal de niggers from one Massa and dey would leave at night en stay in "Campbells Cave" den dey would take dese niggers wid a promise of freedom to Clarksville, Tenn.
She uster box my ears, stick pins in me and tie me ter de cedar chest and whoop me as long as she wanter.
De Klu Klux uster stick de niggers head on er stake alongside de Cadiz road en dar de buzzards would eat them till nuthin' was left but de bones.
We uster tap maple trees en hev big gathering foh ter make maple sugar dat war while I lived at Gracey.
One white man uster say ter nuther white man, "My nigger man Sam wanter marry yer nigger gal Lucy what does yer say en if he said hit war all right why dat couple war supposed to be married.
If folks would tend ter babies like dey usterwhy dese people now wouldn't hev heart trouble.
I'se seem to remember de big days we uster hav on Proclamation Day wen we used ter go to Grandmums who lived in Trigg County.
We uster use grease lamps, dese war made outer iron, wid a piece of cotton rope down in de grease on dis jes send out a puny smelly light.
Dey said dat way 'fore I wuz borned dey uster strip dem niggers start naked an' gallop' em ober de square so dat de buyers could see dat dey warn't scarred nor deformed.
I 'members dat de Ku Klux uster go ter de Free Issues houses, strip all de family an' whup de ole folkses.
She uster take him out at twelve an' start fer de house an' dat donkey would hunch up his back an' swear dat she wuzn't gwine ter ride him home.
I uster go fishin' too, but I ain't been now since 1873, I reckon.
Ole Uncle Jeems had some houn's what would run possums or coons an' he ustertake we boys 'long wid him.
De marster made us wuck through de week but on Sadays we uster go swimmin' in de riber an' do a lot of other things dat we lak ter do.
I tell you folkses ain't lak deyuster be, 'specially niggers.
Marse Rufus uster let us take Sadday evenin' off an' go swimmin' er fishin' er go ter Raleigh.
Some of de rest wuz beat wuser dan I wuz too, an' I uster scream dat I wuz sho' dyin'.
Uster be when a nigger cries he whoops an' groans an' hollers an' his whole body rocks, an' dat am de way dey done sometime at de sales.
I call to mind that I uster dream in my sleep about doin' 'em; but the dream never come true--not till jest here lately.
Some of 'em are mighty near ez pore ez whut I uster be; but there ain't no real harm in any of 'em.
An' Ella--she uster work till she had a fight with her boss last week.
I uster jest go aout an' set right daown an' look at them air hills by the hour, an' I uster say to myself I didn't see haow heaven could be any purtier than the Varmount hills in ther fall.
I uster like ter walk where the leaves hed fell jest to hear um rustle.
It uster do me good ter take my old muzzle-loadin' gun an' go aout in the woods trampin' in the fall.
Uster have something to do with the Sunday-school at Mt.
Ole Mars David uster play on er harp, an' I lay he done it well, too.
It seems to me as if we ain't never goin' to be the same again, as we uster be when all we had was a sack of flour and a side of bacon, and the whole North-west to prospect.
Gets kicked to death, the same as they uster in Park City when the Cousin Jacks from the Ontario cut loose on one another.
Mammy didn't have much soap an' sheuster scrub de flo' wid sand an' it wuz jes ez white.
He uster play a fiddle, and some time he come back an play.
I uster take my young Misses to school ev'y day, but de older Misses went to boadin' school and come home ev'y Friday an' went back on Monday.
My Pa ustercome evy Sadday evenin' to chop wood out uv de wood lot and pile up plenty fur Ma till he come agin.
My brudder you see sittin' in dere, he de baby I uster mine.
On Wensday evenin', Pa ustercome after he been huntin' and bring in possum and coon.
My ma uster pin a piece of fat back on my dres' before she went to de fiel' and when de baby cry I tek him up and let 'em suck 'em.
I uster git out en shine de toes ob mine, we called hit gol' on our shoes.
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