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because a nigger only makes up the feather bed, and don't turn over the straw

tick only about twice a year, ssssssssss

and so it warn't in no danger ssssssssss

of getting stole, now. ssssssssss

But I knowed better. I

had it out of there before ssssssssss

they was half-way down ssssssssss

stairs. I groped along up to ssssssssss

my cubby, and hid it there ssssssssss

till I could get a chance to ssssssssss

do better. I judged I better ssssssssss

hide it outside of the house ssssssssss

somewheres, because if they ssssssssss

missed it they would give ssssssssss

the house a good ransacking. ssssssssss

I knowed that very well. ssssssssss

Then I turned in, with my ssssssssss

clothes all on; but I couldn't ssssssssss

a gone to sleep, if I'd a ssssssssss

wanted to, I was in such a ssssssssss

sweat to get through with the business. By-and-by I heard the king and the

duke come up; so I rolled off of my pallet and laid with my chin at the top of

my ladder and waited to see if anything was going to happen. But nothing

did.

So I held on till all the late sounds had quit and the early ones hadn't begun,

vet; and then I slipped down the ladder. ssssssssss

ssssssssss

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