Marriages

"My mother used to laugh at that. The master would do all the marryin'.

I have heard her say that many a time. They would call themselves

jumpin' the broom. I don't know what they did. Whatever the master said

put them together. I don't know just how it was fixed up, but they helt

the broom and master would say, 'I pronounce you man and wife' or

something like that.

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