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Chapter 181

CXXX. Jig

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Oh we went to the river an' we couldn' get across,
We jump on the nigger back we think it was a horse.
Then Stephen, Stephen, Stephen boy,
Stephen, Stephen, poor Stephen!

A party get to one of the bends of Four-and-twenty River, so called because the road crosses and recrosses it twenty-four times. Stephen carries them all over.