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Sam can carry mine . I want to be on the move . '' So we left , with Sam carrying the one suit case . It was n't nine in the morning yet , and we was starting out purty empty fur a long walk . `` Sam , '' says the doctor , as we was passing that there Big Bethel church -- and it showed up there silent and shabby in the morning , like a old coloured man that knows a heap more 'n he 's going to tell -- `` Sam , were you at the meeting here last night ? '' `` Yass , suh ! '' `` I suppose it was a pretty tame affair after they found out their Elisha was n't coming after all ? ''