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Show I wa np in a . ron<l and . binning down the hill. I looked over 1ny .·h ulcler C'V<'ry now and 1 hen, hnt I didn't s e nobody. I ''"as at .Jndge Thatch r'. a · quick as I ·onlu get ther. I [e ~ airl : '' 'Vhy, 1ny bo , you are all out of 1wrat h. J}id you co1ne for your int <\r . t? ., ,J nca; 'l'lf .\TCHEn Sl'HPn lsED. " X o, · ·ir; I .-ayH ; " is 1 her so1 nc for 1110 ') '' ' Oh, yes, a half-y n.rly i in 1· t · 1 · . . · ' d,s n1g d. Ovrr a hunch·cc1 ~nd flit! <lollar ._ . Qni t a fortun for you. ·You 1Jetter let Ine lllV \ t 1t along· w1th von·.·. tl 'll . . .J I lX lcusanu, hc\enu.-e if you t·l]r it yon . pend 1t. c. ~ " .'.._,To .u. ., I cny· "T 1 't ' ' • . ' -· ( Oll want 10 .'pPn<l ii. f don't want J CDOE TIIA T C'IIER , ·r·RPRJ, 'ED. ') ... -· i t at all-n r the six thousand, nu her. I wm1t y n1 to t nk ~ i t ; I want to give it to you-the ~ix thou.-and :1nd all.' Jfe looked . nrpri. eel. l[ collldn't :·ee1n io m:tk<~ it out. If· snys : ,. \Vhy, what can you 1n an, 1uy hoy '!., I say:, " Don't yon ask n1e 110 ljUC~t ions n.hou.t it, pl< a:c . ·y ou'll take iL-'"·on 't yon ? " lfe says : ~ - \\' 11 , rnl puz.zl <1. Ts S01llrtlling tltc Jnattrr? .. ~~ PlPase take it;' says I 'and don't a.-k 1n' nothi11g--t hen l won't have to t ll no li s.'' I [ \ . .-Ludir d a \Yhi1 e, and t b en he~ says : ~ - Oho-o. I think I s e. Yon \rant to .•r)ll all your pro-perly t o nH~-not giv it. That'.' th<· correcL idra.'' 'l'hcn hr \\ToLe s01neLhing on a paper and rt'ad it OY<'r, antl ·ny. : ' ' Th "l' - you f=<\e it . ay.' 'for a <·Oll.'i<1<·rn t io11: Tltat 111 ':111s 1 hav bought it of you and paid you f'or it. l[('re's a d lltn-fur you. N ow, you sign it:' Ho r . ign (lit, ancll ft. l\liss \Vat son's 11iggcr, Ji1n, had a hajr-l)all a: l)ig ~1!-1 yo11r fist, w h i · h had b c n i o o k ou t of t lt P fo n r t h 1 o 1 n a c h of ; 111 ox .. ancl he u:-;rcl to do maaic with it . l [<· . aid th r \\' itS a !-~pirit in. i<le of iL, ancl iL know cl vrrything. Ro I \Y nL to l1itn th:li night and iohl hi1n pap \\~as herr again, for 1 foun<l hi: tra ·k~ in th) . now. \Yhat I wante<l to kn w, \\'a. ·, what he was goino· io <lo, and was h going to .-tay: .Jinl got out his lwir-ball .. an<l . ai<l sornething ov r it., an<l tben he held it np nncl dropp<'tl it on the fl oor. IL f ll pretty ~nlid, an(l only roll <'<l ;\hont an inch. Jint tri<'d j t again, ancl then anoth r ti1nc, an<l it adc(l ju:t 1h ~ .. run • .Titn got down on hi: kn s and pnt. his '<n· againsL it an<l li. ten d. But i \Yaru't no u: ; be said iL wouldn't talk. 1fe said soinPtimes it wouldn 't talk wiLh u t |