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with it and fetch witches whenever he wanted to, just by saying something to it; but he never told what it was he said to it. Niggers would come from all around there and give Jim anything they had, just for a sight of that five-center piece; but they wouldn't touch it, because the devil had had his bands on it. Jim was most ruined, for a servant, because he Jim carrying a bucket
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got so stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches.

Well, when Tom and me got to the edge of the bill-top, we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, maybe; and the stars over us was sparkling ever so fine; and down by the