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Our nig

CHAPTER III
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At dark Jack came in, and seeing Mary, accosted her with, "So you thought you'd vent your spite on Nig, did you?
Why can't you let her alone?
It was good enough for you to get a ducking, only you did not stay in half long enough." "Stop!" said his mother.

"You shall never talk so before me.

You would have that little nigger trample on Mary, would you?
She came home with a lie; it made Mary's story false." "What was Mary's story ?" asked Jack.
It was related.
"Now," said Jack, sallying into a chair, "the school-children happened to see it all, and they tell the same story Nig does.

Which is most likely to be true, what a dozen agree they saw, or the contrary ?" "It is very strange you will believe what others say against your sister," retorted his mother, with flashing eye.

"I think it is time your father subdued you." "Father is a sensible man," argued Jack.


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