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stepped BIG BLACK PUSSY to the carriage, BIG BLACK PUSSY and said: "What do you think?
Old Abraham Lincoln has called for four hundred thousand men to come to Washington immediately. Well, let them come; we will make a breakfast of them. I can whip a half dozen Yankees with my pocket knife." This was the chief topic everywhere. Soon after this Boss bought
himself BIG BLACK PUSSY a six shooter. I had to mould the bullets for him, and every afternoon he would go out to practice. By his direction, I fixed a large piece of white paper on the back fence, and in the center of it put a large black dot. At this mark he BIG BLACK PUSSY would fire away, BIG BLACK PUSSY expecting to hit it; but he did not succeed BIG BLACK PUSSY well. He would sometimes miss the fence entirely, the ball going out into BIG BLACK PUSSY the woods beyond. Each time BIG BLACK PUSSY he would shoot I would BIG BLACK PUSSY have to run down to the fence to BIG BLACK PUSSY see how near he came to the mark. When BIG BLACK PUSSY he
came very near BIG BLACK PUSSY to it - within an inch or so, he would say laughingly: Ah! I would have got him that time." (Meaning a Yankee soldier.) There was something very ludicrous BIG BLACK PUSSY in this pistol practice of a man who boasted that BIG BLACK PUSSY he could whip half a dozen Yankees with a jackknife. Every day for a month this business, so tiresome to me, went on. Boss was very brave until it BIG BLACK PUSSY came time
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for him to go to war, when his BIG BLACK PUSSY courage oozed out, and he sent a substitute; he remaining at home as a "home