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Good old creeter! I wuzn't goin' to have him run at this late day, and run down his own streets too. But ag'in Josiah hurried me on'ards. And bimeby we found ourselves a standin' in front of a kind of a lonesome lookin' house, big and square, with tall pillows in front. It wuz a standin' back as if it wuz a kinder a drawin' back from company, in a square yard all dark and shady with tall trees.
For all they now knew of it, it might have gone to the bottom, leaving them alone upon the bosom of the limitless ocean. "No use swimmin' on'ards!" said Ben, despairingly. "It'll only waste the bit of strength that be left us." "No use," assented the negro. "Less lay to, and float on de water. Dat be easier, and we can keep up de longer. Do, Massa Ben, gib me de gal.
And ag'in he hurried me on'ards by some good lookin' bildin's, and trees, and tavrens, and cottages, and etc., etc., and we come to Caroline street, and Jane, and Matilda, and lots of wimmen's names. And Josiah sez, "I'll bet the man that named them streets wuz love sick!" But he wuzn't no such thing. It was a father that owned the land, and laid out the streets, and named 'em for his daughters.
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