~-S1ave Stories
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~aiiafla Creel	~	4
~~~aerburgh County
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~ ~o:r:ething. I reache~ out my hans. ELnd. diseoverec5. it v~as the ax. With this aWftlI weaïon I E~truç‘~: n~: ~rie‘nö~, my r~io~e than brother. The thud. o~ the ax ~i3rou~1t rue to my sense$ as ou~ U~~i ~ ~e ~cre boti~ aL:~ost mortally

‘NOUfl~‘~‘L The bor~ carr~e ~‚ ~ trte~. to do ~or~et~nc~ ~t‘rc~ur relief but Jobil ~a:td, “Oh, George~ vfl~t an awful thi~t~ we have d.one~‘ ~1e have never saîCva cross v~ord to e.ôh other a.~d now, Iook~at u~ both . ~ ~

	“1 u:~tched. roar Jo1~n ~11: away, ~ari:rIe~s ~~:S f~11~rfli~ hUt early in the ~orni~~i3~ fl1~T boss ana. I fol1owo~~ a tr~il o~ blood aown by the side of the tracks. Fro!n there he hu~. ±r~t t~u‘necI into the lvoois. e could. ±1ollow him no further. ~7e vient to all the nearb~r tov:~ a~. vifl~~ges but we ~ounö. no person who hail ever E~Cii him. re suprosed. 1~e ha5. die~L in the Woods and. watched. for the buzzar~e ‚ th~nkîng thay woala lead us to hi~ body but he vms iT~eVer secu again.

~	~or two years I never sat dc~m to look insid.e a bOok nor to eat my
food that John Sims was not besiae r~ie.		E[e haunted my pillow and ~ent besi~e

nie night ~ ~ay1 }Iis ‘bloo. wa~ on my hanã~s, hi~ ~reseu1ce haunted. me bern.

~ enthirance. ~7hat could I ä~o? How could. I escape this aw±1u1 pr~gence? ~fl:OI~ friend. told. me to put wate rbe±ween. myself and the plaçe where the awful scene occurred~. So, I quit working on the railroad F~flc~ st~rte~ workS ing 011 theriver. People, believed it that time that the ghost of a pe?-~ son you haa wronged wouN not cross water to haunt you. ~ ‚ ~
	Life on the river was ~.iverting.	Things were consta~t1y happening

and George Ârnol& put asiae some of his unhappiness by enga~i.ng iii river
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~	first job on the river ~ as a roust-about on the Bolliver R Cook

-	~ wheel packet which carried freight and. passanger~ from Nashin~1Ie,Tsnn~ ‚ ~vansvi11e, Ifl&iaflS. I ~orke~. a ro~urn1. tr:t:p on 1~er then went from