Beadle's Dime Novels No. 38: The Wrong Man — page 44: what you’re looking at

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4¢ THE WRONG MAN. “Why do you run off? You knew you are wanted con tinually, and why don’t you remain about the house ?” “’Portant business dat had to be "tended to. No post- ponement on ’count ob webber. Sorry to keep Massa waitin’.” : ; “No more talk, now. Put to the barn, as fast as those big feet of yours will carry you, and saddle the black horse and bring him here.” “Yah! yah!-I’s dar, puttin’ on de saddle,” replied the negro, trotting off toward the barn. _ “JT hope we shall be able to agree about the price,” said Mr. Sedley, turning back toward Hugh Overton, who had sat smiling at the antics of the darkey. “We come very near agreeing before—within a trifle, I believe. I suppose you are willing to eome down a little from the price you asked when I last saw you ?” Mr. Sedley’s face instantly sobered, and he gravely shook his head. , “T named the very lowest figure I could possibly take.” “Well, "Square, that trifle shan’t spile the bargain. If the land suits me, I'll give you the price named.” “You've had a good view of it several times, and have expressed yourself well pleased, so that I am hopeful that the bargain will now be struck between us. You take charge of your brother’s keel-boat, I believe ?” “Yes: I’ve navigated the Ohio and Mississippi so often, that there ain’t many bends or bars in them but what I un- derstand, so that my brother is hardly willing to trust his keel-boat to any one but me.” “ You are considered about the best pilot we have in these parts, I believe ?” . “ And I make bold to say there are none better, though it’s myself that says it, who shouldn’t say it. I've navigated them rivers summat over twenty years, and it would be strange if I didn’t know something of them by this time,” replied Overton. “There are some things, of which, 1 suppose, you never + can be correctly info-med ?” “The Mississippi snags and sawyers, that occssionally i conmicloooks. conn 4 Bene oe Co +