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48 house when it me please"—dat how he speak me. And I could not force him to part till when I had take all de furniture out from his room. He owe me not more as seventy dollaire!

. . . After, I have one Frenchman, I tink him well elevated—le coco. He nail his valise on de floor for make me tink heavy; and he dispar one night—owing me forty-nine dollaire! I find noting in his valise only one syringe.

. . . After, I have two married. Dey pay me enough well, until when de woman run away wit some oder man. Her husban' stay till when he owe me eighty dollaire. After, he go too; and write me letter as dis:

"Madame, I cheat you of eighty dollaire; and I not wish only I could cheat you of eighty thousand dollaire. It was for cause of you dat my wife have run away."