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out as long as de engager am got de money to pay. I has a nice lil income out
of de palay, rheumatic pains, chills an' fever, coughin' fits, an' sudden misery
what I sends on folks to pacify day enemies. Besides all dat, I charge fifty
cents a week to keep de sickness on 'em after hit's one ketch belt.

"He'm, I don't look at hit dat way. Dis is mah perfession. Hit ain't
no mo wrong dem a lawyer acceptin' money to keep a crook or a murderer fum bein'
'lectecuted; or a doctor curin' some mean ole debbil dat ought to die anyhow.
I's done some harm I reckon. But I'se done some good too. I'se done a heep er
good in fac' or ey wouldn't be gittin' ready fur me up in Heaben.

"Dey's makin' a place fur me on Golden Row in Heaben. Yessum, I's
done got de word. An' I's fixin mah affairs so's I kin slip right out an' not
trouble nobody but de angels. I's been a widderer twenty yers. But I'se got two
daughters in de country. I done lef one er don mah fo' pos' bed, an' de pink
silk cover you sees on it now, an' mah guilts over dar in de elevset. She gits
de rockin' chers too. An' mah picture dat I had enlarge las' Ap'ul. I gwiner
leave her some ins'uance too. An' a nice carpet, an' all mah cookin' pots an'
pans, an' all de money I got in de bank. Hit 'eer se Chrisitna lak fur a man
to leave property to his daughter instead ro willin' it to some fas' piece - or
a wuffless widow. So I am leavin what I got to mah oldest an' bes' daughter.

"To mah other daughter I's willin' de hat-rack you sees out yonder