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Show 20:.? 'l'lH~n he ~ho,vecl n anothrr little job h \l printc'd ancl h;Hln't e lunged for, lH'can.·p it wa · for us. It hau a pict nrc of a run a way niggc'r, ''"it h a hun< 11 ~ on a :tick, O\Ter his .. 'houldPr, and "$200 r ward., UlHl<'r it. The reading wn~ all about Jim, <nHl just d cribed hi1n to a dot. It.. aid he run away frotn St. Jacque: plantation, forty 1nile below New Orl 'nn., ln!:'t winter, and likc\1y went uvrth, and wl1oe,· r wouhl catch hi1n and . end hi1n bnck, lt could ha \ 'C the r ward and xpcn rs. ".:\ow;' .:ay· the dukll, "aft 'l' to-night w can rHn jn tb\ <lnvtitne if w 'vant to. "\Vhenevcr we ·ec nnybody OJnincr, we " can ti<' .Titn hand ancl foot with a rope', :1nd lny l1i1n in t hr wig-wmn and show this handbill and sny 've captured bin1 up the river, nncl 'vere too poor to tnlYel on a ,'t mllbont, 'O W gotthi8 ]itt}(' r:1ft on ere<lit fro1n our frien<ls and arr rroing do\nl to get t h r eward. I fandcuff · and chains 'roulcl look till bet t 'l' on .l i 111, bnt it wouldn •t go well with t h<' ~tory of ns hei ng . ·o poor. Too nnH:h lik jrwellcry. l{op . ar;) tb correct thing-we 1nu~t pres rv t h unitie ', as \.Ye say on the boards:' \Yt• all ai<l th duk wa .. prPtty ~1nart, and there couldn't l)c no trouble ahont rnnning dayti1nes. \\re juclged we conlcl 1nake 1niles cnongh that night to get out of the r each of the pow-wow \\e reckon d the dnkc ,~work in the printing office wn · going to 1nakP in that littl(' tova1-then we could boou1 right along, if w wnnte<l to. \V laid lo'v and k pt . LilJ, an<l n evPr sho,·ed out till nearly ten o'clock ; then \ve . lid by, pretty \vide a\\ ay fro1n the town, <HHl didn't hoi. t our lautern till we w~L· clear out of . ight of it. \Yh n Jin1 called 1nc to take the watch at four in the Inorning, he ay.·- " Huck, doe:· you re<:k·n \rc gwync to run acr 8 any mo kiug. on di.· tripr·' "No;· 1 ~ny:.:, "I reekon not: C)o·> - ·> "\V"<·ll,'' H)'S he,'' dat\ all right, d n. I <loan' 1ninc one et~ two kings, but dafs nongh. ])i.· n ,· · pow )rful dnlllk, n de dnk(• ain' 1nnch b tter.' L foun(l Jiu1 h~Hl be )n trying to g t hin1 to talk Frcncl1 . o he ('Onld h ar what it \va · likP; hut he .·aid h had b en in thi:::; country ~o Jong, and had so 1nnch ll·oublc, he \1 forgot it. |
