"A neeger ?" Lewis laughed.

"Not a nigger most certainly, though he had a brown face." "And ye risked your life for a black o' some kind?
Man, ye must be awfu' fond o' your fellow men.

Wad ye dae the same for the likes o' us?
"Surely.

For one of my own folk! But it was really a very small thing." "Then I have just ae thing to say," said the brown-bearded man.

"I am what ye cal a Raadical, and yestreen I recorded my vote for yon man Stocks.