This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...from the very monster's bowels, caused the assailant to stagger back in horror. Conundibus, throwing the skin over on the stupefied negro, made for the woods, while the thick recesses were rendered fairly jubilant with his laughter. But his laughter proved his frolic's ruin; for the negroes, secreted In the darkness, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...from the very monster's bowels, caused the assailant to stagger back in horror. Conundibus, throwing the skin over on the stupefied negro, made for the woods, while the thick recesses were rendered fairly jubilant with his laughter. But his laughter proved his frolic's ruin; for the negroes, secreted In the darkness, sprang out, and soon had him prisoner. They dragged him forward to the fire, to find the fellow with, the club carefully examining the hollow skin, to be assured there was not another darkey within its ample hollow. The capture of the " serious rascal" revealed all, and although the darkies had had their feast almost spoiled, so clever was the trick that they soon forgave the joker, and the feast went on. Alligator stories became the theme of discourse as the pig continued to disappear. "Whar did you get dat big skin, Conundibus?" said th- negro whose club had so nearly finished the apparition. "You jes' tell me wha' for you come back to see dat I wasn't an alligator--you jes' tell dat afore I.answers any. interrogums," said Conundibus, anxious to learn how it was possible for any negro to get his courage up to the point of assailing " da debbil." "Wy.you see, I fought it was only de old cane-brake alligator waked up from his snooze jes' for to get sun thin' to fill his stomach aside ob stones. I t'ought he jes' smell pig, and come out ob de mud, and he so stiff he couldn't walk, so he come along on his tail. I knowed 'twasn't de debbil, 'cause / saw de debbil once, and he was a horse, wid a cow's head and a chicken's tail, and had a church bell on his back. Dat I knowed was de debbil; and s- I knowed dis yere wasn't CONUNDIBUS ON Ai.l.lOATOllS. lit fte debbil widout he been habin' children...
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