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 Rh never speak again if he did n't pucker up his mouth and go to whistling! Yes, sir; whistling 'Buffalo gals, can't you come out to-night, can't you come out to-night, can't you come out to-night;' and doing it as calmly as if we were attending a funeral and were n't related to the corpse. And when I remonstrated with him about it, he smiled down on

"WENT TO WHISTLING."

me as if I was his child, and told me to run in the house and try to be good, and not be meddling with my superiors!"

Once a pretty mean captain caught Stephen in Now Orleans out of work and as usual out of money. He laid steady