Show A silent partner old dabbs and jim birter two colored men having grown tired of farming far camo to aliis city and opened a kind of grocery store dabbs was a shrewd bowlegged bow legged man with broad feet and a noso liko the largest half of a pear carter was young and inexperienced after the stock had been purchased dabbs remarked i carter aae de odest in dis case hits necessary fur er to be gier all right said carter I dont keer what my namo is but I wants haf de money dat comes in ober de counter data a feic carter make t sharp business man pars a lot ob biggers got dar eyes on dis sto but well fool cm carter duz yer owe any debts in dis wurl lemme see yes I owes a man fur asad dlo blanket how long hah yu owed him bout five years how much auz it auff bout two dollars doll irs lemme count do two is two added onto de five duplex raes tiona comin in twixt do two and de ave compound com poun cathartic fractions comin in twixt de duplex fractions nines a nine wid ten as a ten froes way and leban stands up mr birter you owes dal man leben hundred dollars an quarter hows dat why cordin to do do awful heaby hit fairly makes a man sweat hit breaks up de white mail and robs de ob his labor dat man coul come and break up our sto he could sell us out I heard a plantation bout us yesterday now cf yer auz do signer which means de oldest de man do bothin dis is a fault ob de law de legislature is a awful lot ob rascals well now yer must be my silent does ye ceab ise libenia li Benin den the man cant tech yer ie got a head as lonz as a waler million veli now lemme read yer dis paper then dabbs read the following dis beadi is ter certify dat dabbs an carter is pod ners dabbs is de action an carter is de dis is also ter certify dat so soon cz bibba quits boin de ac lion de whole sto lonas ter carter an when carter quita bein de ridout anhder agreement gre ement de ato all longs ter dabbs als were wrote up by culled lawyer said dabbs sign de paper the two men signed the instrument and called in witnesses next dabbs came down to the store early and when carter arrived all the berrt sitting in the store o in ft m D bb said car ter dabb u n and cair cai r i i t wa afu ie i e s 11 r de v s i mine aid dibbs arising and urcin to ahn n neww 11 carter IHS i arti r a nt pod nei kin when a man talk ti oi d in corll please leali n an so off down in ti i E fprd atuck ile kic m h would been ail hi d alain ler bo seed dat yer won t cartr apfei d to the witnesses but was that he bad broken irmice il Mice ind of was no loui i ivar of friio stor the twani inisi allt hr i now i r i f L ir J i i n employing andi and rep rese niini n cagial cai ial ul over T rort wm n nd 1797 boax r u r 16 ir emilid emp lid |