Bless you, THEY ain't got noth'n' to complain of." Well, the king he talked him blind; so at last he give in, and said all right, but said he believed it was blamed foolishness to stay, and that doctor hanging over them.

But the king says: "Cuss the doctor! What do we k'yer for HIM?
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?
And ain't that a big enough majority in any town ?" So they got ready to go down stairs again.

The duke says: "I don't think we put that money in a good place." That cheered me up.

I'd begun to think I warn't going to get a hint of no kind to help me.

The king says: "Why ?" "Because Mary Jane 'll be in mourning from this out; and first you know the nigger that does up the rooms will get an order to box these duds up and put 'em away; and do you reckon a nigger can run across money and not borrow some of it ?" "Your head's level agin, duke," says the king; and he comes a-fumbling under the curtain two or three foot from where I was.