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servants were likely to come along the 

 passage every minute. The black fellov/, 

 having got clear off unheard, happened to 

 be met by one of the police of the town, 

 who seeing the fellow carry a handle, says 

 to him, '' Well, John, where have you 

 been?" — " I am just come from New- 

 York, massa." — *' And what have you 

 there in your bundle ?'* — *' A cloak for 

 my wife, and a few duds of my own." — 

 ** Well, John," the policeman taking hold 

 of the bundle, " let us see what you have." 

 The policeman opening the bundle, found 

 in it a black silk cloak, and some other 

 suspicious things, such as were not likely 

 to be his ; upon which he asked, ^' What 

 have you in the other bundle ?" — " A few 

 duds of my own." — There tumbled out 

 this pair of sconces, and some other things 

 as unlikely to belong to such a man as 

 those in the other bundle. The policeman 

 asked him where he had got the sconces. 

 The black fellow replied he had bought 

 them at a sale at New York, seeing 



