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Yo' is num'er fo' eleben. Reckin ain't no 'stake 'bout it!" "I am Number 411, certainly," said Faith, politely, "but I can't imagine who would write me a letter; still, if you are sure it's for me, I suppose I must accept." "Oh, it's fo' you all right," said the negro, decidedly, "fo' de capting p'inted yo' out on de street las' ebenin'." Faith took the letter and opened it hastily.
Dar, it done struck five bells dat mean ten-thirty, unerstan' an' you's gotter git half-a-dozen ob yo' bob-tailed nags ready fo' de ridin' lessons yo' tells me yo' gives de yo'ng ladies at six bells, dat's eleben o'clock, Sattidy mawnin's. I's pintedly cur'us fer ter see dem lessons, I is.
Ten!" said the bell. "Dree! Vour! Fibe! Sax! Seben! Aight! Noin! Den!" answered the others. "Eleven!" said the big one. "Eleben!" assented the little ones. "Twelve!" said the bell. "Dvelf!" they replied perfectly satisfied, and dropping their voices. "Und dvelf it is!" said all the little old gentlemen, putting up their watches. But the big bell had not done with them yet. "Thirteen!" said he.
I was plumb busted when Marsa Frank gib me dat position. Ah didn't hab a cent about me. Eber hear ob a coon what didn't hab a cent about him? Yah! yah! yah! Well, sah, dat was my condition. Now, sah, Ah'ze rich. Ah'ze gut eleben dol's in de bank, an' Ah'ze addin' to it continerly, sah Ah'ze addin' to it continerly.
"I'm givin 'em a serees of addresses on the 'Igher Life when the jumpin' season's over." The little ostler looked at his watch. "You'd better step it," he said, "you and your Hired Life. It's past eleben and the bells have stopped. If you ain't there before her, you'll get the stick, you will." Albert moved slowly up the gangway behind the loose-boxes, unheeding the other's taunts.
Three times eleben make thirty-three, don't it?" "It do, Pink, or eleben times three, jes' which you please. Now here's my count, on which you'll see, Pink, that not nary cent have I charged for infloonce. I has infloonced a consider'ble custom to this house, as you know, bo'din' and transion.
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