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	“It was no sooner out than we takes off de lid and we is sho‘ s‘prised at what we see. Big silver dollars la~, ai]. over de top. We takes two of them and drops them together and they ring just lak we hear them ring on de counters. Then we grabble in de pot for ~re. De silver went d~n ‘bout two inches deep. Twenty dollar gold pieces rim down ‘bout four inches or ~o and de whole bottom was full of big bundles of twenty dollar greenbacks.
	WW0 walks up to de house feelin‘ pretty big and i~ oldest bruddor was sing— in‘:

‘Ea~k amd b~zzard went to law,

Hawk come back wid a broken j ~. t

	“MaIW say widout lookin‘ at us : ‘What you ail 00~j~~ to dinner so soon. for? t Then ehe looked up and s es de pot ~d say : ~ ~ ~ ~ what you all

o‘ Th~ we puts de big pot down tn de ~iiddle of de floor and takes off do lid, and meiw~ say: ‘Ohi Let‘s see what we hasi‘ 8h. begin to empty de pot

and to count de ~rney. She tell us to watch de door and see dat nobody got in, ‚ cause she not at home I

	t, She say de ~ney ~ to $5 ‚ 700, and she swear us not to say nothint ‘bout findin‘ it. She would see what she could find o~tt ‘bout it. Weeks atter dat, shs tell us a big white friend t.ll her he hoar a friend of his buried some i~ney end went to war widout teflin‘ anybody ~here it was. Maybe he was

.	killed and dat all we ever hear.

	“Mit meawiiy~ kept it and we all work on just do same and she buy these two lots on Senate Street. She buila dè two-story house here at 924, where you sittizi‘ now, and de cottage nez‘ door. She always had rent ~ney oomin‘ in ever since. By and by ah. die ‚ aftsr x~j Indian pappy go ‘~y end nver come bad~::. Then .11 de ohillun dis, ‘ceptin‘ me.

	•I am so happy dat I is able to spend i~ old days in a sort of ease,