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Well , you 'd a dide to see that negro brush dad 50 times a day , and bring a towel every few minutes to wipe off his shoes , but he kept one eye , ' about as big as an onion , on dad all the time , to watch that he did n't get stabbed . The next morning I took dad 's pants from under his pillow , and hid them in a linen closet , and dad laid in his berth all the forenoon , and had it out with the porter , whom he accused of stealing them . The doctors told me I must keep dad interested and excited , so he would not dwell on his sickness , and I did , sure as you are a foot high . Dad stood it till almost noon , when he came out of his berth with his pajamas on , these kind with great blue stripes like a fellow in the penitentiary , and when he went to the wash room I found his pants and then he dressed up and swore some at everybody but me . We got to Washington all right , and I thought I would bust when dad fished out a nickel and gave it to the porter , and we got out of the car before the porter came to , and the first day we stayed in the hotel for fear the negro would see us , as I told dad that porter would round up a gang of negroes with razors and they would waylay us and cut dad all up into sausage meat . -LSB- Illustration : Fished out a nickel and gave it to the porter 042 -RSB- Dad is the bravest man I ever saw when there is no danger , but when there is a chance for a row he is weak as a cat . I spect it is on account of his heart being weak .