WORKING THE CAMP-MEETING.
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There was a little one-horse town about three mile down the bend, and after dinner the duke said he had ciphered out his idea about how to run in daylight without it being dangersome for Jim; so he allowed he would go down to the town and fix that thing. The king allowed he would go too, and see
THE KING AS JULIET.
if he couldn't strike something. We was out of coffee, so Jim said I better go along with them in the canoe and get some.
When we got there, there warn't nobody stirring; streets empty, and perfectly dead and still, like Sunday. We found a sick nigger sunning himself in a back yard, and be said every-
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