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their wagons. I,- however, made up my mind not to stay sick 

 or downhearted and patronize the death-trap in the master's 

 wagon, and thereby keep the wagon body as well as my own 

 and soul together. But for all that, I would sometimes think 

 in the dark hours of the night I was lying in a prospective 

 coflSn ! 



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