“All right; but wait a minute. There’s one more thing — a thing that nobody don’t know but me. And that is, there’s a nigger here that I’m a-trying to steal out of slavery, and his name is Jim — old Miss Watson’s Jim.”

He says:

“What! Why, Jim is — “

He stopped and went to studying.

I says:

“I know what you’ll say. You’ll say it’s dirty, low-down business; but what if it is? I’m low down; and I’m a-going to steal him, and I want you keep mum and not let on. Will you?”

His eye lit up, and he says:

“I’ll help you steal him!”