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servants were likely to come along the 

 passage every minute. The black fellow, 

 having got clear off unheard, happened to 

 be met by one of the police of the town, 

 who seeing the fellow carry a bundle, says 

 to him, " Well, John, where have you 

 been ?" " I am just come from New- 

 York, massa." <4 And what have you 

 there in your bundle ?" <c 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, u 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 



