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 'em all gin ter shuffle, dat's me too. Dat's me got back in 'er."

Charlie Gaston rode with Aunt Eve to the cemetery. He walked back home through the fields with Dick.

"I wouldn' cry 'bout er ole nigger!" said Dick looking into his reddened eyes.

"Can't help it. He was my best friend."

"Haint I wid you?"

"Yes, but you ain't Nelse."

"Well, I stan' by you des de same."