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[250] opened its mouth, and displayed a beautiful, pearly set of teeth.

“You all sound?” asked the white.

“Yes, massa,” said the boy.

“ Nine eighty,” said the white.

“Five,” said another, who stood beside him.

“Ninety,” said the other white.

“Nine hundred and ninety,” exclaimed the auctioneer--“nine hundred and ninety dollars-nine hundred and ninety dollars ”--

“D — n it,” said a man at my side, “how niggers has riz.”

“Yes, sir,” said his old white-haired companion, “I tell you, if a man buys niggers now, he has to pay for them. That's about the amount of it.”

“Nine hundred and ninety dollars--all done at nine hundred and ninety dollars?--nine hundred--and--nine-ty dollars — go-ing at nine — hundred and nine-ty dollars — and-gone — if no one bids-nine hundred and ninety dollars--once--nine hundred----and----ninety, a-n-d ”

He looked round and round in every direction, but no one moved, and he plaintively added--

“ Gone!”

This boy was one of those unfortunate children who neber was born, but are raised by the speculators, or are the offspring of illicit connections between the Saxon and African races. He was of a brown complexion — about one-third white blood. He was dressed in a small check calico trowsers, and a jacket of a grey color. The whole suit would not cost more than three dollars; but it was new, clean and looked very tidy.

The next Article disposed of was a young man, of

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