Do you chance to know where, for love, money, or any consideration, you could lay hands on olives in this town ?" The fellow, scarcely awake, rolled up the whites of his eyes for a moment, and scratched his woolly pate, as if seeking vainly to conjure up some long-neglected memory.

Then his naturally good-humored countenance relaxed into a broad grin.
"Fo' de Lord, yas sah! I'se your man dis time suah 'nough.

Dat fat ol' Dutchman, down by de Tehoupitoulas Gate, suah as you're born had a whole barrel ob dem yesterday.

I done disremember fer de minute, boss, jist whar I done saw dem olibs, but I reckon as how de money 'd fotch 'em all right." I drew forth a handful of French coins.
"Then run for it, lad!" I exclaimed in some excitement.

"Your master's life hangs upon your speed--hold, wait! do you remember that old tumble-down shed we passed on our way here; the one which had once been a farrier's shop ?" The negro nodded, his eyes filled with awakened interest.
"Good; then first of all bring me a suit of the worst looking old clothes you can scare up in the negro quarters of this town.