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Show TilE ADVENTURES 01~' IIUCKLEBEllR1- l•'If\2v. So T 1n turns to the nigo-er ,vhich " ·as looking wihl antl eli 'tre sed, and . ay,, kind of :ever : ""rhat do you r ckon,s the 1natt r with you, anywny? ? • 'Yhat 1nacle you think . om body sung ut . "Oh, if cl dad-bhune' \rite he. , .·ah, en I "·i ht I wa~ (l<'acl, I do. Dey·.· awl nz n t it, s1h, rn <ley do rnos · kill In", dl'y "WITCHES. t~k'yers me o. Plea ·e to don't t ,11 nobody 'bout it sah, er ole 1\Iars Silas he 11 scole me ; 'kase he says dey ain't no witches. I jis' wi ·h to goodness he was heah no\v-clen what would be , ay! I jis' bet he couldn' fine no way to git. aroun' it clis time. But ifs awluz jis' so; people dat's sot, stays sot ; dey won't TllO UBLEJJ 111'/'II n -ITCIIJ:) . n -- t.H)•) look into nothn' en fine it out fr cl y. el v s, n ''"h n yon fin~ it out en tell urn 'bout it, dry <loan' b '] i ve you." Tom giv hitn a ditne, ancl ~aiel w wouldn't t '11 nobocly; and told hi1n to buy .. 0111 1nor thread to ti up hi, wool with ; and then look: at Ji1n, and f-iel)'-' : "I wonder if Uncle Silas i going to hang this nigger. If I was to catch a nigger that wa ungrat ful nough to run away, I \VOuldn•t g iYc hin1 up, r(l hang him.' And whilst t1 lc nigo-er stepped to the door to 1 oo k at t h di 1ne and bite it t :ec if it \ra: good, h wl 1i~per:-; t > .Ti1n, and ~ny:: "Don't ev r] t on to k11ow H~. And if yon hear any <ligging going on ni<rht ', il's ns: \re 're going to . t yon fr c:' Ji1n only had ti1ne t grn h us by the h~nHl and . que z it, tl1en the nigger co1ne bnek, and "·c ~aid we'd co1n arrain so1nc time if the 11iggr r \vani eel us to; and he said h \vould, n1or~ particular if it wa clark, bec;nl.'C th \ritche w nt for hirn 1no~Uy in the (lark, antl it \ra~ gootl to ha,·c folks around then. A A 2 |