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If ever a negro 's wool undertook to stand on end it was at that moment . Zuley Ann 's eyes were permanently enlarged . I have it on excellent authority . At eight o'clock they were off for Richmond and the New York express . Long before the train reached the station in New York , David and Dick parted company . The shrewd but whimsical scamp presented at considerable length the problem of virtue and vice stalking arm in arm , as it were , through the streets of New York ; he pictured , with extreme unction , the doleful undoing of virtue and the practiced escape of vice . `` Kid , '' said he , `` the first cop that laid eyes on us meanderin ' down Broadway would land on us like a rat-terrier .