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1The news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run from every which way,
2some of them putting on their coats as they come. Pretty soon we was in the middle of a crowd, and the noise of the
3tramping was like a soldier march. The windows and dooryards was full; and every minute somebody would say, over a
4fence: "Is it them?" And somebody trotting along with the gang would answer back and say: "You bet it is." When we got
5to the house the street in front of it was packed, and the three girls was standing in the door. Mary Jane was
6red-headed, but that don't make no difference, she was most awful beautiful, and her face and her eyes was all lit up
7like glory, she was so glad her uncles was come. The king he spread his arms, and Mary Jane she jumped for them, and the
8hare-lip jumped for the duke, and there they had it! Everybody most, leastways women, cried for joy to see them meet
9again at last and have such good times. Then the king he hunched the duke private--I see him do it--and then he looked
10around and see the coffin, over in the corner on two chairs; so then him and the duke, with a hand across each other's
11shoulder, and t'other hand to their eyes, walked slow and solemn over there, everybody dropping back to give them room,
12and all the talk and noise stopping, people saying "Sh!" and all the men taking their hats off and drooping their heads,
13so you could a heard a pin fall. And when they got there they bent over and looked in the coffin, and took one sight,
14and then they bust out a-crying so you could a heard them to Orleans, most; and then they put their arms around each
15other's necks, and hung their chins over each other's shoulders; and then for three minutes, or maybe four, I never see
16two men leak the way they done. And, mind you, everybody was doing the same; and the place was that damp I never see
17anything like it. Then one of them got on one side of the coffin, and t'other on t'other side, and they kneeled down and
18rested their foreheads on the coffin, and let on to pray all to themselves. Well, when it come to that it worked the
19crowd like you never see anything like it, and everybody broke down and went to sobbing right out loud--the poor girls,
20too; and every woman, nearly, went up to the girls, without saying a word, and kissed them, solemn, on the forehead, and
21then put their hand on their head, and looked up towards the sky, with the tears running down, and then busted out and
22went off sobbing and swabbing, and give the next woman a show. I never see anything so disgusting. Well, by-and-by the
23king he gets up and comes forward a little, and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full of tears and
24flapdoodle about its being a sore trial for him and his poor brother to lose the diseased, and to miss seeing diseased
25alive after the long journey of four thousand mile, but it's a trial that's sweetened and sanctified to us by this dear
26sympathy and these holy tears, and so he thanks them out of his heart and out of his brother's heart, because out of
27their mouths they can't, words being too weak and cold, and all that kind of rot and slush, till it was just sickening;
28and then he blubbers out a pious goody-goody Amen, and turns himself loose and goes to crying fit to bust. And the
29minute the words were out of his mouth somebody over in the crowd struck up the doxolojer, and everybody joined in with
30all their might, and it just warmed you up and made you feel as good as church letting out. Music is a good thing; and
31after all that soul-butter and hogwash I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully. Then the king
32begins to work his jaw again, and says how him and his nieces would be glad if a few of the main principal friends of
33the family would take supper here with them this evening, and help set up with the ashes of the diseased; and says if
34his poor brother laying yonder could speak he knows who he would name, for they was names that was very dear to him, and
35mentioned often in his letters; and so he will name the same, to wit, as follows, vizz.:--Rev. Mr. Hobson, and Deacon
36Lot Hovey, and Mr. Ben Rucker, and Abner Shackleford, and Levi Bell, and Dr. Robinson, and their wives, and the widow
37Bartley. Rev. Hobson and Dr. Robinson was down to the end of the town a-hunting together--that is, I mean the doctor was
38shipping a sick man to t'other world, and the preacher was pinting him right. Lawyer Bell was away up to Louisville on
39business. But the rest was on hand, and so they all come and shook hands with the king and thanked him and talked to
40him; and then they shook hands with the duke and didn't say nothing, but just kept a-smiling and bobbing their heads
41like a passel of sapheads whilst he made all sorts of signs with his hands and said "Goo-goo--goo-goo-goo" all the time,
42like a baby that can't talk. So the king he blattered along, and managed to inquire about pretty much everybody and dog
43in town, by his name, and mentioned all sorts of little things that happened one time or another in the town, or to
44George's family, or to Peter. And he always let on that Peter wrote him the things; but that was a lie: he got every
45blessed one of them out of that young flathead that we canoed up to the steamboat. Then Mary Jane she fetched the letter
46her father left behind, and the king he read it out loud and cried over it. It give the dwelling-house and three
47thousand dollars, gold, to the girls; and it give the tanyard (which was doing a good business), along with some other
48houses and land (worth about seven thousand), and three thousand dollars in gold to Harvey and William, and told where
49the six thousand cash was hid down cellar. So these two frauds said they'd go and fetch it up, and have everything
50square and above-board; and told me to come with a candle. We shut the cellar door behind us, and when they found the
51bag they spilt it out on the floor, and it was a lovely sight, all them yaller-boys. My, the way the king's eyes did
52shine! He slaps the duke on the shoulder and says: "Oh, this ain't bully nor noth'n! Oh, no, I reckon not! Why, Bilji,
53it beats the Nonesuch, don't it?" The duke allowed it did. They pawed the yaller-boys, and sifted them through their
54fingers and let them jingle down on the floor; and the king says: "It ain't no use talkin'; bein' brothers to a rich
55dead man and representatives of furrin heirs that's got left is the line for you and me, Bilge. Thish yer comes of
56trust'n to Providence. It's the best way, in the long run. I've tried 'em all, and ther' ain't no better way." Most
57everybody would a been satisfied with the pile, and took it on trust; but no, they must count it. So they counts it, and
58it comes out four hundred and fifteen dollars short. Says the king: "Dern him, I wonder what he done with that four
59hundred and fifteen dollars?" They worried over that awhile, and ransacked all around for it. Then the duke says: "Well,
60he was a pretty sick man, and likely he made a mistake--I reckon that's the way of it. The best way's to let it go, and
61keep still about it. We can spare it." "Oh, shucks, yes, we can spare it. I don't k'yer noth'n 'bout that--it's the
62count I'm thinkin' about. We want to be awful square and open and above-board here, you know. We want to lug this h-yer
63money up stairs and count it before everybody--then ther' ain't noth'n suspicious. But when the dead man says ther's six
64thous'n dollars, you know, we don't want to--" "Hold on," says the duke. "Le's make up the deffisit," and he begun to
65haul out yaller-boys out of his pocket. "It's a most amaz'n' good idea, duke--you have got a rattlin' clever head on
66you," says the king. "Blest if the old Nonesuch ain't a heppin' us out agin," and he begun to haul out yaller-jackets
67and stack them up.
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