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"Mebbe you're right 'bout funerals an' nigger lynchin's," he whispered back, "but they's jest a matter o' livin' an' dyin'. Y'see, Minky's gamblin' sixty thousand dollars o' good red gold." Brand nodded. And somehow he appreciated the point and became easier. Later on Minky appeared in the store, and almost automatically every eye was turned expectantly upon him.
"I knows all 'bout what slave uprisin's is, but never in my life has I seen anything lak dat. Never! Never! We aint never had no lynchin's, neither. He come to de state o' Mississippi once an' hel' a meetin' in Jackson. He made a gran' talk. He made mention 'bout puttin' money in de bank. Lots o' darkies made 'membrance o' dat an' done it. "I's a Nigger what has been prosperous.
"I allow funerals is joyous things an' nigger lynchin's is real comic," he declared hoarsely. "But fer real rollickin' merriment I never see the equal o' this yer gatherin'. I sure don't think it 'ud damp things any ef I was to give 'em a Doxology." The miner responded with a pensive smile.
An' I says further, that any party who's lookin' for the place where the bad man is scarce, an' a law- abidin' gent has the fullest liberty, pegged out to the shorest safetytood, let him locate where he finds the most lynchin's, an' where a vig'lance committee is steadily engaged discriminatin' 'round through the community. Which a camp thus provided is a model of heavenly peace.
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