MARRIAGE

Elder Williams married me in Miss Delia Mann's (white) parlor on de

crater road. The house still stands. The house wuz full of Colored

people. Miss Sue Jones an' Miss Molley Clark (white), waited on me. Dey

took de lamps an' we walked up to de preacher. One waiter joined my han'

an' one my husband's han'. After marriage de white folks give me a

'ception; an', honey, talkin' 'bout a table--hit wuz stretched clean

'cross de dinin' room. We had everythin' to eat you could call for. No,

didn't have no common eats. We could sing in dar, an' dance ol' squar'

dance all us choosed, ha! ha! ha! Lord! Lord! I can see dem gals now on

dat flo'; jes skippin' an' a trottin'. An' honey, dar wuz no white folks

to set down an' eat 'fo yo'.

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