And the boy
being in a kind of a flighty sleep, too, we muffled the
oars and hitched the raft on, and towed her over very
nice and quiet, and the nigger never made the least
row nor said a word from the start. He ain't no bad
nigger,
gentlemen;
that's what I think about him."
Somebody says:
"Well, it sounds very good, doctor, I'm obleeged to
say.