(Continued from page 26) A box black suit, and a made plans for Christmas having told Ferdie his story, had gone to join Leona, and
be brought back to Louisiana Stetson hat. Day. J.B. had insisted he be ended it that night. When Fer- that she had found him that
and hung. Put a twenty dollar gold invited to sit with the family die went to pick up Sam that morning as Ferdie had left him:
 He finished with the last piece on my watch chain, and eat the Christmas meal, Christmas day he found a tear- His hands holding the gold
lines ofthe St. James Infirmary So the beys will know I died and then they would discuss ful Miss Louise. She held his watch, and a faint suggestion
Blues: standing pat." Sam's future. hand and told him that Sam of a smiie on his lips.
 "Now, when I die, Ferdie tucked him in his
 Bury me in Edmund's clap bed, his head whirling from Some stories are meant to
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