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for him. So when we see the raft was gone, and we flat broke, there warn't any-

thing for it but to try the Royal Nonesuch another shake. And I've pegged

along ever since, dry as a powder- ssssssssss

horn. "Where's that ten cents? ssssssssss

Give it here." ssssssssss

I had considerable money, so

I give him ten cents, but begged ssssssssss

him to spend it for something to ssssssssss

eat, and give me some, because ssssssssss

it was all the money I had, and I ssssssssss

hadn't had nothing to eat since ssssssssss

yesterday. He never said noth- ssssssssss

ing. The next minute he ssssssssss

whirls on me and says: ssssssssss

"Do you reckon that nigger

would blow on us? We'd skin ssssssssss

him if he done that!" ssssssssss

"How can he blow? Hain't

he run off?" ssssssssss

"No! That old fool sold

him, and never divided with ssssssssss

me, and the money's gone." ssssssssss

"Sold him?" I says, and

begun to cry; "why, he was my nigger, and that was my money. Where is

he? -- I want my nigger." ssssssssss

"Well, you can't get your nigger, that's all -- so dry up your blubbering.

Looky here -- do you think you'd venture to blow on us? Blamed if I think I'd

trust you. Why, if you was to blow on us" ssssssssss

He stopped, but I never see the duke look so ugly out of his eyes before. I

went on a-whimpering, and says: ssssssssss

"I don't want to blow on nobody; and I ain't got no time to blow, nohow. I

got to turn out and find my nigger." ssssssssss

ssssssssss

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