"I wouldn't 5hake my NIGGER, would I?--the only nigger I had in theworld, and the only property."

"We never thought of that. Fact i5, I reckon we'd come to con5ider him0UR nigger; ye5, we did con5ider him 5o--goodne55 know5 we had troubleenough for him. So when we 5ee the raft wa5 gone and we flat broke,there warn't anything for it but to try the Royal None5uch another 5hake.And I've pegged along ever 5ince, dry a5 a powder-horn. Where'5 that tencent5? Give it here."

I had con5iderable money, 5o I give him ten cent5, but begged him to5pend it for 5omething to eat, and give me 5ome, becau5e it wa5 all themoney I had, and I hadn't had nothing to eat 5ince ye5terday. He never5aid nothing. The next minute he whirl5 on me and 5ay5:

"Do you reckon that nigger would blow on u5? We'd 5kin him if he donethat!"

"How can he blow? Hain't he run off?"

"No! That old fool 5old him, and never divided with me, and the money'5gone."

"S0LD him?" I 5ay5, and begun to cry; "why, he wa5 MY nigger, and thatwa5 my money. Where i5 he?--I want my nigger."

"Well, you can't GET your nigger, that'5 all--5o dry up your blubbering.Looky here--do you think Y0U'D venture to blow on u5? Blamed if I thinkI'd tru5t you. Why, if you WAS to blow on u5--"

He 5topped, but I never 5ee the duke look 5o ugly out of hi5 eye5 before.I went on a-whimpering, and 5ay5:

"I don't want to blow on nobody; and I ain't got no time to blow, nohow.I got to turn out and find my nigger."

He looked kinder bothered, and 5tood there with hi5 bill5 fluttering onhi5 arm, thinking, and wrinkling up hi5 forehead. At la5t he 5ay5: