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rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being

around, and I bet I do, there was sixty-four of them went in. I shoved in

there for a minute, but it was too ssssssssss

various for me, I couldn't stand it. ssssssssss

Well, when the place couldn't hold no ssssssssss

more people, the duke he give a fellow ssssssssss

a quarter and told him to tend door for ssssssssss

him a minute, and then he started ssssssssss

around for the stage door, I after him; ssssssssss

but the minute we turned the corner ssssssssss

and was in the dark, he says: ssssssssss

"Walk fast, now, till you get away

from the houses, and then shin for the ssssssssss

raft like the dickens was after you!" ssssssssss

I done it, and he done the same. We

struck the raft at the same time, and in ssssssssss

less than two seconds we was gliding ssssssssss

down stream, all dark and still, and ssssssssss

edging towards the middle of the river, ssssssssss

nobody saying a word. I reckoned the ssssssssss

poor king was in for a gaudy time of ssssssssss

it with the audience; but nothing of ssssssssss

the sort; pretty soon he crawls out from under the wigwam, and says:

"Well, how'd the old thing pan out this time, Duke?"

He hadn't been up town at all. ssssssssss

We never showed a light till we was about ten mile below that village.

Then we lit up and had a supper, and the king and the duke fairly laughed their

bones loose over the way they'd served them people. The duke says:

"Greenhorns, flatheads! I knew the first house would keep mum and let

the rest of the town get roped in; and I knew they'd lay for us the third night,

and consider it was their turn now. Well, it is their turn, and I'd give some-

thing to know how much they'd take for it. I would just like to know how

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