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Show 72 1'Ilb' ADVENTURES OF IIUCJl:LEBERRY Fllt~j~ nigg<:r ay d . bank 's busted. f;o dey didn' none UY u git no ·~ lllOD<'.Y. ' "\YhaL did you do with the ten ccnL·, Jitn ? " "\Ve ll, I 'uz gv.ryne to spen' it, but I had a dr a1n, en de dream tole me to give it to a nigger name' Balun1-Balum's As~ cley call him for short, hn' · one er <l 1n chuck! -heads, you know. But he's lucky, clc?y sny, en I sPe I warn~t lucky. De dream say let Balum invc ·'de ten cents en he'd n1ak, a raise for mP. \\'"ell, Balu1n he tuck de mon y, en wh n he wuz in church h(' hear de preacher say dat whoever give to d po' 1 n' to de Lord, en bonn' to git his monc:y bacl' a hund'<l time . N Bnlnn1 he tuck c'n give dr t n c0nt to de po', en lai<llowto ~c what wuz gwyne to co1nc of j t .. , "\Y<'lJ, \Vhat did COlllC of it, Jim?" ~' Nuffn' n ver come of it. I conldn' n1anao·<~ to k'J cck dat h 1non y no way; en Balum he couldn'. I ain't gwyne to len' no mo' money \lout I see de s curity. 13oun' to git yo' 1noney back a hund'd timr ·, de preacher say ! I~f I c uld gii cl<' t en cent back I'd call it :quah, en be glad E r clr chan 't." "V{ ell, it's all right, any\vay, Ji1n, long as you're goi11g to be rieh again some time or other." "Ye .· - en I' ' n'ch now, come to look at it. I owus 1ny ef, en I'. \vnt h Pight hund'd dollar.·. I wi~ht I had de mon )y, I wouldn' want no mo'." EXPLORING THE CAVE. er \\~ ... \~TED to rro and look at a place right about tllC IHid<ll of the i ·]and, tl1at I cl fo nnd when I wa. · xpl oring ; :o we ,'tart c l, anJ , o n got. 1 o it becau~e tlH' i ~lan <l \ra~ only i..hret· 1nilc~ long nncl a qnnrtvr of a 1nile \Vlclt'. Tl1 i~ ] >ln · was ~l t olerable long· steep hill or ri<lg , about forty fooL h icrh. \\.<· had a rougl1 t i1ne o·ct tin()' to t h ) top, ,-, " t lt .;icl . · wa. · . · tcep :-tnd tlH' bu · h s so t l1i ·k. \\r tnnnpccl and chunb around all ov r 1· t, and b y-and -b y r1 0UD<1 <<t"'}- bo ·oocl bi(r cav rn in tb rock, most up to the top on the id toward Illino] · · The ca.v ru |