? ? ? ? "No, I didn't see nobody, Aunt Sally. The boat landed just at daylight, and I left my baggage on the wharf-boat and went looking around the town and out a piece in the country, to put in the time and not get here too soon; and so I come down the back way."
? ? ? ? "Who'd you give the baggage to?"
? ? ? ? "Nobody."
? ? ? ? "Why, child, it'll be stole!"
? ? ? ? "Not where I hid it I reckon it won't," I says.
? ? ? ? "How'd you get your breakfast so early on the boat?" It was kinder thin ice, but I says:
? ? ? ? "The captain see me standing around, and told me I better have something to eat before I went ashore; so he took me in the texas to the officers' lunch, and give me all I wanted."
? ? ? ? I was getting so uneasy I couldn't listen good. I had my mind on the children all the time; I wanted to get them out to one side, and pump them a little, and find out who I was. But I couldn't get no show, Mrs.
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