The man continued, "A nigger came into the jail, and asked for the jailer.

The jailer came out, and he handed him a note, and said he wanted to get a trunk.

The jailer told him to go with him, and he would give him the trunk.

So he took him into the room, and told the nigger to give up the dollar.

He said a man had given him the dollar to pay for getting the trunk.