Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 298
TROUBLES. 28l ■ that ar Sam was a po nigga,—the only nigga thestingy man had; an he was that stingy he neverhalf fed him no way. He guv him a leetle corn-meal fur hoe cakes, an onct in a g-r-e-a-t while aleetle teeny bit uv a thin slice o bacon. So Sam Sam, I shall be gone away three days, an that… … SAM IN THE CKLLAlv. got thinner an thinner, till he was near a shadder,an his fingers were 1-o-n-g and b-o-n-y. And Sarah held up hers and clawed them in theair, till the children could almost see Sam and hisbony hands. Well, one day this bad man had to go way offto the big city, an he had nt got…
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