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256 HIS SAYINGS.home pickin' up chips.Wat a nigger gwineter I'arnouten books? I kin take a bar'l stave an' fling mo'sense inter a nigger in one minnit danall de school-houses betwixt dis en deState er Midgigin. Don't talk, honey!Wid one bar'l stave I kin fa'rlylif devail er ignunce."" Then you don't believe in education?"" Hit's de ruinashun er discountry. Look at my gal.De ole 'oman sont 'er terschool las' year,an' now wedassent hardly ax 'er fer ter kyarde washin' home.She done got beyant 'er bizness. I ain't larnt nuthin'in books, 'en yit I kin count all de money I gits.Nouse talkin', boss. Put a spellin'-book in a nigger'shan's, en right den en dar' you loozes a plow-hand. Idone had de speunce un it."XVIII.A TEMPERANCE REFORMER.come Uncle Eemus," said a well-dressednegro, who was standing on the sidewalk near James'sbank recently, talking to a crowd of barbers." Yercome Uncle Kemus. I boun' he'll sign it,"