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By Sheer Pluck

CHAPTER XII: A NEGRO'S STORY
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We get the yams out ob de plantations and lib very comfortable.

When we tink all ober in the mountain we go back.
"Well, sar, when we tink it all safe, and we get widin a mile ob de huts whar we had libed, all at once we came upon a lot of soldiers in camp.
Dey see us and make shout.

I call to my wife to run, when dey fire.

A bullet hit de baby, which she hab at her back, and pass through both deir bodies.

I did not run any more, but jus' stood looking at my wife and chile as if my senses had gone.


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