It is a favorite amusement of the authorities to go out hunting negroes—they will find a number of them playing craps in a hallway, or indulging in a poker-game on a Sunday night, and they will haul them up for “gambling,” and send them for three or six months to a convict-camp, where the hours of labor are from dawn till dark, and a man who ventures to murmur is knocked over the head. Harry Adams was sent up by a judge who was a cousin of the mill-owner with whose business he had interfered; the life had nearly killed him, but he had been wise enough not to murmur, and at the end of his term
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