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Show 374 TilE ADT'"L'NTURES 011' JIUCJ(LEBERR1. l:'I.Nl{. coaxing him and petting hi1n, and a skin~ him if hc\l. been 1· mag1· n1· ng }1e aw sornethincr acrain l[e ra.1 ·ed up, an<l hhnk('<l c • b b • his y around, and ·ay ~ : "~Iars id, you'll say 1\.; a fool, but if I didn't b'lieYe I e 1 nost a 1nillion dog , cr devils, r so1ne'n, I wisht I may die right heah in de e track ·. I did, 1nos' sholy. l\Iars Sid, I fdt umI felt urn, sah ; dey \vas all over 1ne. ]).ad fete~ ~t, I j is' \visl~t I could giL my ha.n\; on one r ch~m .w1tchc~ Jl ' wu~ ._ t on y jis' wun:t- ifs all I'd a t. But mo.· ly I w1.·ht dey d ll'nnnc 'lone, I doe : Ton1 ay : "\Yell, I tc1l you what l think. '\"hat 1nake: t hl'Jn cmne here ju L aL this n.1naway nigger\; bl'cakfast-tirnc? It':-> becnu.'e they're hungry; that's the reason. l'"ou 1nakc thcnt a witch pic ; that's Lbe thing for yon to do:' ''But 1ny lan', ::\1ars f-;id, how' · I gwync to nutk) ·nl a \\·itc:h pie? I doan' know how to n1ake it. I hain't C\'('l' hc:ll'll cr .:ich a thing b 'fo ·:' "\Yell, th n, I'll haxc to rnak it 1ny. elf: ' "\Yill you <lo it, honey ?---will yon? I'll wnsshup de groun' und' yo' foot, I will ! '' "All right, I'll d it, . c ing i.L's you, and you've bcc11 good to us an<l sh wed U!:l the run<nvay nigger. But you got to be 1nighty car :lful. \Yhen we co1n around, you turn your back; and then what vcr we've put in the pan, don't you let on you sec it at all. And don't you look, wh n Jiln unloads the pansomething might happen, I (lon 't know what. And aboYe all, don't you handle the witeh-things:' "Hannel '1n l\iars Rid? 'Vhat i · you a tal kin' 'bout? I wouldn' lay de weight cr my finger on urn, not fr ten hund'd t hous 'n' billion dollar~, I woul<ln 't :' THE RU.llllAGE-PILK wa all fix d. f-;o then \\~C went away and went to the rubbage-pile in the back yard wh rc they k rp the old boot~, and rags, and piece of bottl s, and \Yore-out tin things, and all nch true k, and scratchrcl around and found an old i. in wa.~h-pan an(l :loppetl up th0 holes as well as we conlcl, to bake th<\ pic in, and took iL down ('Cllar and tole it full of flour, ancl start cl for breakfast ancl found a coupl of hingle-nail;.; that Tmn said woulcl b handy for a prisoner to scrabble his na.1nc and sorrows on the dungeon wall · with, and dropped one of the1n in Aunt Sally':-> apron po ·keL which ·was hanging on a chair, ancl t'other we stuck in the hand f Uncle Sila 's hat, which wa. on the bureau, b cause we h ard the children say their pa and 1na was going to the runaway nigger's hou e this morning, and then went to breakfa t, and |