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in that ocean; and though it would take him a long time to get there, without

money, he would get there anyway, and every time he convinced a pirate he

would say to him, "Don't you thank me, don't you give me no credit, it all

belongs to them dear people in ssssssssss

Pokeville camp-meeting, natural ssssssssss

brothers and benefactors of the race ssssssssss

-- and that dear preacher there, the ssssssssss

truest friend a pirate ever had!" ssssssssss

And then he busted into tears,

and so did everybody. Then some- ssssssssss

body sings out, "Take up a collec- ssssssssss

tion for him, take up a collection!" ssssssssss

Well, a half a dozen made a jump ssssssssss

to do it, but somebody sings out, ssssssssss

"Let him pass the hat around!" ssssssssss

Then everybody said it, the preacher ssssssssss

too.

So the king went all through

the crowd with his hat, swabbing ssssssssss

his eyes, and blessing the people ssssssssss

and praising them and thanking ssssssssss

them for being so good to the ssssssssss

poor pirates away off there; and every little while the prettiest kind of girls,

with the tears running down their cheeks, would up and ask him would he let

them kiss him, for to remember him by; and he always done it; and some of

them he hugged and kissed as many as five or six times -- and he was invited to

stay a week; and everybody wanted him to live in their houses, and said they'd

think it was an honor; but he said as this was the last day of the camp-meeting

he couldn't do no good, and besides he was in a sweat to get to the Indian Ocean

right off and go to work on the pirates. ssssssssss

When we got back to the raft and he come to count up, he found he had col-

lected eighty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. And then he had fetched

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