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with through-tickets, and before you can say Jack Robin-
son, you'll all be snugly landed in Canada.'
  i" Dere, aint dat curis, Mist'r Crow, but s'pose our ole
hoss cums 'pon us 'fore we gets in dat dark 'ole, what den '
  " ' Oh, we will hide you, Sam, too nicely for that; but
we furnish another sort of a passport, that seldom fails-
(draws a revolver) don't you see this lovely instrument
That is yours, if you consent to go.'
  "'La! what a nice lookin' t'ing dis is, Mist'r Crow-
how does you work him to make him talk loud-dere be
six leetle holes in dis t'ing-how can you make each on
'em do his part'
  " 'All you have to do, Sam, is to keep pulling the
trigger, and it will keep working around, until the six
loads are discharged.'
  "'What acuris t'ing dis is, 'pon my word. Does you
say, de white man will stand back, when he sees dis
feeful instrument Does you say it's mine, if we'll 'gree
to go '
  "'Yes, Sam, it's yours, if you'll say you'll come.'
  "'Dere, Mist'r Crow, you temp' dis nigger too much.'
  "'Now, Peggy, my wife, what say you to gwine wid
our children'
  " ' Oh, Sam you're crazy, you know we're comfortably
fixed now-has good homes where we may live our life-
time; but if we try to get off and fail-t'ink of dat,
What would become of us!'
  " ' But you know, Peggy, Mist'r Crow aint gwine to
lie 'bout sich t'ings, and he says, dere aint no danger.'
  "'Alas! I wish Mist'r Crow had staid at home, and
mind his own business-not to come to dis cabin, to put
sich bad noshens in dat head ob your'n.'
  "'Fear not'in, Peggy, all well kum out rite.'
  "'Why, Sam, does you inten' to hazar' all de blessin's
we enjoys, for dis unsartin business '
     'I mus' confess, Peggy, new t'ots has bin put in my
poor head. I begins to sigh for dat strange land.'
  "' I Mis'ry, mis'ry, Sam; if we starts, I feels a kin' of
bodin' we'll be brought back, an' den we'll be undone.'
  "' I Oh, Peggy, you conjer up so many bogobowsdey
won't fin' us, and den how kin dey catch us'



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