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Show TilE AIJrJ·:-..Y7'URES OF liUCJ(LEBEilRl~ J.'I. . Y.. \. ~ dollars lay ronnel very day for people to pick up? ~on1c folks thinks th nigger ain't far fron1 here. I'm one of them - but [ hain·t t 1.lked it around. A few day~ ago I wa talking with an old couple that liYes next door in the log shanty, and they happened to say hardly anybody e\·er goes to that i. land over yonder that they ·all Jack on's Island. Don't anybody live th rc? ays I. ~o, nobody, ·ays they. I didn't sayany. 1norc' but I done sotnc thinking. I \vas pr )tty near certain l'd ·een : tnoke over there, about the head of th island, a day or two before that, so I sny~ to 1ny elf, like a. not that nigg ,r's hiding o\·er there:; anywny, ny' I, it's worth the trouble to gi,·c the place a hunt. I hnin't .. een any smoke sence, so I reckon 1nnybe h :.:~ gone, if it wa hin1; but husband' going over to ,' e-hi1n and a not her I nan. 1 [e was gone up the river; but he got back to-clny an(l I told hi1n as oon as he got here two hour: ago.'' I had got so nn n y I couldn't ..; t Btill. I had to do soinething with my hand. ; :o I took np a ne dl off of the t<tble and w~nt to t~1.rcacliug il. 1\Iy hands 'hook, and I \Ya~ making a bad JOb of 1L \rh n the wo1nan stopp d talking, I looked up, and ·he wa · looking at rne pretty curious, and su1iling a little. I put down th" needle and thread and let on to l1u intcre, t el-and I W(l ·, too-and ay : "Thr e hundred dollars i' a pow r of 1noney. I wish n1y mother could g )t it. I~ your hu:ba.nd going over th r tonight?" " Oh, yes. I [e went up town with the man I w·as telling ?,ou of, to get a b at and see if they could borrow another gun. 1 h y'll go over aft(\r 1nidnight." · . "~ouldn't they see better if they was to \vait till dayhmc?' . ".l.. . C"'. ~ncl c uldn·t the nigger see better, too? Aft r ID1dn1ght he lllikely hn"" asle ep, and th ey can sh. p around through TilL' SEARCII. Dl th, woods and hunt up hi· catnp fir all the beU 'l' for the dark if h 's got one." " I didn't think of that:· 'I'hc \VOlna.n kept lookinct at me pretty curiou .. , a1Hl I ditlll·t, fcrl a bit comfortable. Pr )tty . oon sh say:: "vVhat did you say your nam wa~, honey'? ., I I I i 11 ,( 1 (:0/~~ J(/1/((H/I(Irl( .. .-v ... , .• - .-.. . i•i Ill'' I , , ' ,, I I I l I ,, . - "- ... _.... --- '' HD( A~D A~OTHER :MA~.'' " l\I-J\Iary 'Villiam. · .. , ~ 10lnehow it didn't en1 to me that I ·aid it wn · nfary b fore so I didn't look up; ~eemed to rne I . ai(l it was Sarah; :o I f:lt sort of cornered, and was a.feared mayb I '\\a.' lo king it, too. I wished the ·woman would say som thing 1n re; th' longer she set still, the unea.si r I was. But now she .'(lY~: |