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? ? ? ? "Well, den, dey ain't no sense in a cat talkin' like a man. Is a cow a man?- er is a cow a cat?"

? ? ? ? "No, she ain't either of them."

? ? ? ? "Well, den, she ain' got no business to talk like either one or the yuther of 'em. Is a Frenchman a man?"

? ? ? ? "Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan' he talk like a man? You answer me dat!"

? ? ? ? I see it warn't no use wasting words- you can't learn a nigger to argue. So I quit.

Chapter Fifteen

? ? ? ? We judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after. We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and then be out of trouble.

? ? ? ? Well, the second night a fog begun to come on, and we made for a tow-head to tie to, for it wouldn't do to try to run in fog; but when I paddled ahead in the canoe, with the line, to make fast, there warn't anything but little saplings to tie to.


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