“That is a simple demonstration in experimental electricity, men,” he said. “When the worm’s damp body which is in contact with the copper touches the silver it starts a current of electricity that gives it a shock. Of course the current thus produced is very slight, but it is quite enough for the worm, and the worm finds it more comfortable to stay on the copper coin.”
“Dat shore is a strange an’ expensive fack, Marse Tom,” Hitch Diamond remarked gloomily.
“De nigger whut bets his dollars on dat exper’ment ain’t gwine git no slight shock,” Pap Curtain declared.
“An’ he ain’t gwine hab even a copper cent to stan’ on!” Prince Total concluded.
X
RATTLESNAKE.
All of Shin Bone’s victims were sitting in the grandstand when Shin rode on the track that afternoon to exhibit his newly purchased horse.
“Hello, Shinny!” Hitch Diamond yelled. “Whar you git dat plug?”
“Marse Tom sold him to me fer fawty dollars,” Shin grinned. “You all he’ped me to pay fer him when you bit like suckers at dat fishin’ worm!”
“Is you gwine race him?” Pap whooped.
“Suttinly. He goes in de las’ race.”