[What Might Have Been Expected by Frank R. Stockton]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Might Have Been Expected CHAPTER XXIV 5/18
Night was surely coming on. At a turn in the wood, he met a negro boy with a tin bucket on his head. Harry knew him.
It was Tom Haskins. "Hello, Tom!" said Harry, stopping for a moment; "I want you." "What you want, Mah'sr Harry ?" asked Tom. "I want you to come to Aunt Judy's cabin and carry some messages over to Hetertown for me." "When you want me ?" said Tom; "to-morrer mornin' ?" "No; I want you to-night.
This minute.
I'll pay you." "To-night ?" cried the astonished Tom.
"Go ober dar in de dark! Can't do dat, Mah'sr Harry.
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