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Old Creole Days

CHAPTER XV
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I thing you will go, _et_ I thing Miguel will go, _et_ Joe--everybody, I thing--_mais_, hof course, not if they not have been christen'.

Even I thing some niggers will go." "Jools," said the parson, stopping in his walk--"Jools, I _don't_ want to lose my niggah." "Yon will not loose him.

With Baptiste he _cannot_ ged loose." But Colossus's master was not re-assured.
"Now," said he, still tarrying, "this is jest the way; had I of gone to church"-- "Posson Jone'," said Jules.
"What ?" "I tell you.

We goin' to church!" "Will you ?" asked Jones, joyously.
"_Allons_, come along," said Jules, taking his elbow.
They walked down the Rue Chartres, passed several corners, and by and by turned into a cross street.

The parson stopped an instant as they were turning and looked back up the street.
"W'at you lookin' ?" asked his companion.
"I thought I saw Colossus," answered the parson, with an anxious face; "I reckon 'twa'n't him, though." And they went on.
The street they now entered was a very quiet one.


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