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Show ,., tu •) l<"' 41 ·l ~ .111ot1t .... cloa not eating \vat<'nn ·1 n. It .-ho\\ :-; 11CY<'r l lOUg h (. - n o < • •• how n b o< 1y C,.< 1n n~ "(ll lll <lon't SC' at i h s::unc tnn . • .. \\'" )lL the' nigger unlock <1 th' paulocl· wh n he \H'lll 111, antl 1t e 1O l' I'.- el1 l·4L o, g·u" in ·when he con1e ut. 1[) fetch r <l nucl t' I 1 4 4} ) t1 · 111 '", crot np fnnn table-- s<:'lme key, [ 1wL a .:.eY ~ a )0Ul l H.:: a . . . . . \\, at ~( 'l'Jll 1O ll :-i ]l OW~. 1l l'n' l1 , loc\~"- ·ho\VS l>l'l'OD 'r; . and lt anl l li kt>\ •y th<'r<':• ) t\\.0 pu.· ..o n . . 011 such a little planta.Llon, and where tlH' 1 . . l H'op 1c ·s a 11 s,o \'-·iud <m Hl tc->r ood ..J in1's tlH' p•n suner: All n• ght• - 1· 1 l - f' 1,1 1'l ot1L d tceli,·c fasluon; I woul<ln t ,lPH' 111 g ac '' c o u I \. . 1 1 .!' 4]1c.1· w·1y X( w vou work your 111111(1 and :-;indy ~ lllC z' lOr ~UlY Ol ( • .J • 1 i . 4 . 1 Ji1out a 1 nn ,) · n ·u1cll will ~tudy out on ., too ; (llHl \\ <' ll l <l • ' (. tak thc' one we like the best." , . \\"hat a hc£ul for just a boy in hav'! If I had To1n Nawyl'r s l lea< l I wonl (lll 't ll""ll' it off to be a dukr, nor 1nate of a :t canl- (l\. • • l J 1 -1 1 · )OaL, nor c o\n 11 ('l circu· ·' nor nothino· I ean .t h1nk of. I. W<'nL 10 thinking out a plan, hut. on.ly ju. t to be do~ng on1ctlung; I knowcd very w<'ll where the right plan \ra. go1ng to conH' frmn. PreUy oon Tou1 ·ays : "HcaLly? .. 4 ' l? e~, ., I say . "AU ri crhL- bring it out:· ,. l\Iy plan is t.hi:-;," I .·ays. "\\r ' '£Hl ca y fincJ o~L if it'.· .1 iln in there. Then get up 1ny cano \ to-n1orrow n}gl1t, an<l f 'lch 111y raft over fro1n th i lan<l. Th n the fir. t dark night i hat con1 ', , teal the key out of the oll n1an' · bril ·heR, af~er h) o·oc . to b <1 and shove off <lO\Yn the river on t llC raft, w1th J i b ' cl J' 1n, hiding day-t i1ne ., and running nights, th \vay 111' an · 1111 lL" d to do before. \\rouldn'L that plan work?" " lVu1·k? \\rhy ccrt'nly, it wouhl work, like rat· a fighting. But it's too blan1e' ·i1nplo; th re ain't nothing lo it. \\rhat'~ t h) good of a plan that ain't no n1ore trouble than that? It'. a.· n1ild a. goo· -1nilk. \Yhy, Iluek, ii wouldn't 1nak} no 1norr talk than breaking into a ·oap fad.ory:' OU'f'IL10LlOU: . q ff) , ) -j ' I ll CY r said nothinbo·, because I \Van1'L C'Xl)0cf in <r n otl1 in <r L ~ h different; l1nt I knO\V \<l llll crhLy ·well that \Yhen rv r he got j, is plan ready it \\~oulcln,t hav non of th m obj ec tion. to it. And it didn't. lie tol<l me what it wa:, and I ·ee in a 1ninutc it "~a~ worth fift n of 1ninc, for tyl , and wonlcl 1na k<' Jinl j n. L a. free a man a. 1ninc would, and may be gPt n: 11ll killed br ides. o I wa :atisfi cl, an(l . aid we\ would waltz in on it. I n e<ln't tell what it wa , h er , b ecau c I knowed iL \Vouldn •t :tay the \Yay it wa . I know d he would be chan cring it around, every which way, a w went along and hcaYing in new bullin sse. whor ver he got a chan c. And that i.- what he done. ''r ell, one thing \vas cl ad nr ; and that wa , that T ont ~awyer wa8 in arncst an<l was actuly go in cY to h elp t al t hat. nicrger out of slavery. That wa. the thing that wa too 1nany for 1ne. II re wa a boy that wa re pecta bl , and \vell brnng up; and had a character to lo~ c ; and folk at h ome that had characters ; and he was bright and not lcath r-headecl ; ancl knowing and not ignorant ; an<l not m an, but kind; and y et h rc he wa:, without any 1nor prid, or riahtn .·· or fe ling, than to . toop to this bu ·in s. , and 1nak hirn.·elf a ~hmno, all cl hi fmnily a shame, befor everybody. I co~dd n't under. tan cl it, no way at all. It \Vas outrage u:, and I know d I ought to j n t up and tell him o ; and . ·o be his trn friend, and I t hitn quit tho thing right wh re h wa. , and ·ay hitn rlf. And I dicl ,·tart to tell hirn ; hut he shut In up, and . ay. : " Don't you reckon I know what I'm about ? Don •t I gcnerly know what I'1n about?' "Y .. ~' " Didn ,t I say I wa. · going to h lp st al th nigger?" "y . ' " lVell, then." That's n ll he said, and tltaf · all I .. aid. It \Yarn ,t no u o to |