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Chapter XXXIII

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So I started for town, in the wagon, and ssssssssss

when I was half-way I see a wagon com- ssssssssss

ing, and sure enough it was Tom Saw- ssssssssss

yer, and I stopped and waited till he ssssssssss

come along. I says "Hold on!" and ssssssssss

it stopped alongside, and his mouth ssssssssss

opened up like a trunk, and staid so; ssssssssss

and he swallowed two or three times ssssssssss

like a person that's got a dry throat, ssssssssss

and then says: ssssssssss

"I hain't ever done you no harm.

You know that. So then, what you ssssssssss

want to come back and ha'nt me for?" ssssssssss

I says: ssssssssss

"I hain't come back -- I hain't been

When he heard my voice, it righted him up some, but he warn't quite satis-

fied yet. He says: ssssssssss

"Don't you play nothing on me, because I wouldn't on you. Honest injun,

now, you ain't a ghost?" ssssssssss

"Honest injun, I ain't," I says.

"Well -- I -- I -- well, that ought to settle it, of course; but I can't somehow

seem to understand it, no way. Looky here, warn't you ever murdered at all?"

"No. I warn't ever murdered at all -- I played it on them. You come in

here and feel of me if you don't believe me."

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