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had already given her, and that I had told his wife Soon after the fall of Richmond, that if She staid with me I could not afford to pay her anymore. She left me next day. This woman had an infant child that required a great deel of her time and attention. She usually got up between daybreak and Sunrise and did her own house work cooked breakfast for her husband &c. She was not required by me to cook for anyone except for her Sister, who attended to the Cows. She usually got out to work in the field about an hour or two hours after Sunrise. it was a practice and habit with her to come daily from the field to the house to Suckle her child, between breakfast and dinner time and at dinner time and between dinnertime and night; and She remained in, not less than an hour each time except at dinnertime when She Stayed two hours. She left off work usually at Sunset;

Crops Examined by the plaintiff

Q Dident my wife cook for "William" a boy who worked for you,

A I have no knowledge of her cooking for "William". I never gave her any orders to do So. I directed her Mother, who lived in the Same house with her to do "Williams" cooking, "William" Stated to me when I asked him why he dident come out to work earlier, that he had to do his own cooking,

Q Did you ever order my wife to cook for any one,

A I never did,

Q Dident you order her to feed your hogs

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