But some white men had gone to one of
the meetings, and the bishop had preached one of
his old-time sermons whilst they was there, telling
the niggers to be orderly and agriculturous--he
was considerable of a fox yet. But he and the rest
of the niggers was so DERNED anxious to be thought
agriculturous and servitudinous that the whites
smelt a rat, and wished he would go, fur they didn't
want to chase him without they had to.
Jest when we was getting along fine one of them
prominent citizens asts the doctor was we there
figgering on buying some land?
"No," says the doctor, "we wasn't."
They was silence fur quite a little spell. Each
prominent citizen had mebby had his hopes of
unloading some. They all looks a little sad, and
then another prominent citizen asts us into the back
room agin.
When we returns to the front room another promi-
nent citizen makes a little speech that was quite
beautiful to hear, and says mebby we represents
some new concern that ain't never been in them
parts and is figgering on buying cotton.
"No," the doctor says, "we ain't cotton buyers."
Another prominent citizen has the idea mebby
we is figgering on one of these here inter-Reuben
trolley lines, so the Rubes in one village can ride
over and visit the Rubes in the next.
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