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SILENT SAM
Johns unlocked the handcuffs in the turnkey's cage: "He ain't much of a talker,—Sam ain't—but he 'll like to listen about that wreck. Tell him about it."
Johns chuckled flatteringly: "He need n't hurry, neither. He can tell 'm as often as he likes, eh? He 'll have lots o' time."
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"And the funny part of it is," the reporter always says, when he finishes telling his version of the story—"the funny part of it is that this happened in America. They 're down there yet—in the Pen. Daneen 's gone blind, as well as nutty, and the nigger leads him around by the hand. It 's a great sight to look at—on the Fourth of July."
