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The Late Mrs. Null

CHAPTER XXIV
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"Dat's wot eberybody thought, an' to tell you de truf, Miss Annie, I thought so too.

But ef I was strong 'nuf to go to de pos' offis,--an' I did dat, Miss Annie, an' not long ago nuther,--I reckon I's strong 'nuf to go to chu'ch, an' Uncle Isham is a comin' wid de oxcart to take me ter-morrer mawnin'.

Dar'll be pow'ful wakenin's, an' I ain't seen de Jerus'lum Jump in a mighty long time." "Are they going to have the Jerusalem Jump ?" asked Miss Annie.
"Oh, yaas, Miss Annie," said the old woman, "dey's sartin shuh to hab dat, when dey gits waken'd." "I should so like to see the Jerusalem Jump again," said Miss Annie.
"I saw it once, when I was a little girl.

Did you ever see it ?" she said, turning to Mr Croft.
"I have not," he answered.

"I never even heard of it." "Suppose we go to-morrow, and hear Brother Enoch," she said.


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