There would be a message for King; mos' likely from Coloma.

I'm thinkin' about a home with pirty things in it, books, an' pictures, an' cushions, the way women fix 'em you know, an'an' a mother; I want a mother very much; I think it'd be the mos' beautiful thing in the world to have a mother.

wull, they be times when he says things to ye so quick like, so bright like, so lofty like, 'at ye'd mos' think he was na human like the rest o' us.

Reckon you better hurry, for it's mos' time for dinner, sah.

An' he mos' turn' white an' he say, 'I sol' 'em down de ribber'; an' massa say, 'I'se a great mind to sell you down de ribber, too'but he nebber sol' nuffin'gib us all our freedom.

When niggers did wrong, dey was oft'n sent dere, but mos' allus dey was jes whupped when too lazy to wuk, an' when dey would steal.

' Dat would mos' nigh tickle him to death an' he'd say, 'Loosahna (dat was his pet name for me) what you want today?

I don't 'member much 'bout her 'fore she run off, I reckon I was mos' too little.

She put me in her lap an' she mos' nigh cried when she seen de back o' my head.

Mos' ever'thing was tore up an' burned down to de groun'.

Mos' of de cullud mens go back to where dey was raised.

"I'se lived here forty-five years, an' chipped turpentine mos' all my life since I was free.

"Mos' ever' slave had his own little garden patch an' was 'lowed to cook out of it.

De mistis an' de res' o' de ladies in de Big House made mos' of 'em.

Mos' o' de time dey didn' fitmaybe de pants hung a little loose an' de tails o' de coat hung a little long.

It took me mos' all day.

"I lives here in Port Gibson an' does mos' ever' kin' o' work.

"I stayed in de house mos' o' de time wid Miss Emmaline.

She an' Marse Bill had 'bout eight chillun, but mos' of 'em was grown when I come 'long.

Us seen de sojers pass by mos' ever' day.

I'd faint away mos' ever'day 'bout eleven o'clock.

" Wayne Holliday, Ex-slave Monroe County Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies FEC Mrs. Richard Kolb [WAYNE HOLLIDAY Aberdeen, Mississippi] "I was born an' raised in Aberdeen an' I'se been a railroad nigger fo' mos' of my days.

Us 'ud mos' ingen'ally have fish, rabbits, 'possums, or coons.

"De mos' fun was de corn shuckin'.

Co'se he git licked mos' do time, but he allus ready fer anotha fight.