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? ? ? ? "Well, it's all right, anyway, Jim, long as you're going to be rich again some time or other."

? ? ? ? "Yes- en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hundred dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."

Chapter Nine

? ? ? ? I wanted to go and look at a place right about the middle of the island, that I'd found when I was exploring; so we started, and soon got to it, because the island was only three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide.

? ? ? ? This place was a tolerable long steep hill or ridge, about forty foot high. We had a rough time getting to the top, the sides was so steep and the bushes so thick. We tramped and clumb around all over it, and by-and-by found a good big cavern in the rock, most up to the top on the side towards Illinois.


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