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"DAT ONE-LAIGGED NIGGER."
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o' course dat nigger want' to keep me out er de business, bekase he say dey warn't business 'nough for two banks, so he say I could put in my five dollars en he pay me thirty-five at de en er de year.

"So I done it. Den I reck'n'd I'd inves' de thirty-five boy crouched behind a tree, looking out over the water
MISTO BRADISH'S NIGGER.

dollars right off en keep things a-movin'. Dey wuz a nigger name' Bob, dat had ketched a wood-flat, en his marster didn' know it; en I bought it off'n him en told him to take de thirty-five dollars when de en' er de year come; but somebody stole de wood-flat dat night, en nex' day de one-laigged