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The Attache

CHAPTER V
11/17

He has plenty of subjects.

All the planters send their fugit_ive_ niggers there to be practised on for an eye.

The scholars ain't allowed to take more than one eye out of them; if they do, they have to pay for the nigger; for he is no sort o' good after, for nothin' but to pick oakum.

I could go through the form, and give you the cries to the life, but I won't; it is too horrid; it really is too dreadful." "Oh do, I beg of you," said the traveller.
"I cannot, indeed; it is too shocking.

It will disgust you." "Oh, not at all," said Turkey, "when I know it is simulated, and not real, it is another thing." "I cannot, indeed," said Mr.Slick.


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