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(FOR IRWIN RUSSELL, WHO DIED IN NEW ORLEANS IN GREAT DESTITUTION, ON / CHRISTMAS EVE, 1879)
Well, well, I declar'! I is sorry. / He 's 'ceasted, yo' say, Marse Joe? -- / Dat gent'man down in New Orleans, / Whar writ 'bout'n niggers so,