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"Oh, shucks, yes, we can spare it. I don't k'yer noth'n 'bout that -- it's

the count I'm thinkin' about. We want to be awful square and open and above-

board, here, you know. We ssssssssss

want to lug this h-yer money up ssssssssss

stairs and count it before every- ssssssssss

body -- then ther' ain't noth'n ssssssssss

suspicious. But when the dead ssssssssss

man says ther's six thous'n dol- ssssssssss

lars, you know, we don't want ssssssssss

to"

"Hold on," says the duke.

"Less make up the deffisit" -- ssssssssss

and he begun to haul out yaller- ssssssssss

boys out of his pocket. ssssssssss

"It's a most amaz'n' good idea,

duke -- you have got a rattlin' ssssssssss

clever head on you," says the ssssssssss

king. "Blest if the old None- ssssssssss

such ain't a heppin' us out agin" ssssssssss

-- and he begun to haul out yaller- ssssssssss

jackets and stack them up. ssssssssss

It most busted them, but they

made up the six thousand clean and clear. ssssssssss

"Say," says the duke, "I got another idea. Le's go up stairs and count this

money, and then take and give it to the girls."

"Good land, duke, lemme hug you! It's the most dazzling idea 'at ever a

man struck. You have cert'nly got the most astonishin' head I ever see. Oh,

this is the boss dodge, ther' ain't no mistake 'bout it. Let 'em fetch along their

suspicions now, if they want to -- this'll lay 'em out."

When we got up stairs, everybody gethered around the table, and the king he

counted it and stacked it up, three hundred dollars in a pile -- twenty elegant

little piles. Everybody looked hungry at it, and licked their chops. Then they

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