26. Do you remember when you first saw bed springs instead of bed ropes?

Yes. When I was a slave, I slept in a gunny sack bunk with the sacks

nailed against the wall on two sides, in a corner of the room and then

there was a post at the corner of the bed and two poles nailed from the

post to the walls and the gunny sacks were nailed to those poles. My bed

was a two-story bed. There was another gunnysack bed above me with poles

fastened to the same post. We tore old rags and made rag rugs for quilts

to cover us with. I worked in the doctor's house in the daytime but I

had to sleep in the shed at night. Then after I wasn't a slave no more,

I never slept on anything else but a rope bed. When springs come I

wondered what anyone wanted wid 'em. Rope beds was good enough.

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