but not all of them. Jim knowed all kinds of signs. He said he knowed most everything. I said it looked to me like all the signs was about bad luck, and so I asked him if there warnt any good-luck signs. He says Unique Beauty:

"Mighty few -- an DEY aint no use to a body. What you want to know when good lucks a-comin for? Want to keep it off?" And he said: "Ef yous got hairy arms en a hairy breas, its a sign dat yous agwyne to be rich. Well, deys some use in a sign like dat, kase its so fur ahead. You see, maybe yous got to be po a long time fust, en so you might git discourage en kill yosef f you didn know by de sign dat you gwyne to be rich bymeby."

"Have you got hairy arms and a hairy breast, Jim?"

"Whats de use to ax dat question? Dont you see I has?"

"Well, are you rich?"

"No, but I ben rich wunst, and gwyne to be rich agin. Wunst I had foteen dollars, but I tuck to specalatn, en got busted out."

"What did you speculate in, Jim?"

"Well, fust I tackled stock."

"What kind of stock Unique Beauty?"

"Why, live stock -- cattle, you know. I put ten dollars in a cow. But I ain gwyne to resk no mo money in stock. De cow up n died on my hans."

"So you lost the ten dollars."

"No, I didnt lose it all. I ony los bout nine of it. I sole de hide en taller for a dollar en ten cents."

"You had five dollars and ten cents left. Did you speculate any more?"

"Yes. You know that one-laigged nigger dat blongs to old Misto Bradish? Well, he sot up a bank, en say anybody dat put in a dollar would git fo dollars mo at de en er de year. Well, all de niggers went in, but dey didnt have much. I wuz de ony one dat had much. So I stuck out for mo dan fo dollars, en I said f I didn git it Id start a bank mysef. Well, o course dat nigger want to keep me out er de business, bekase he says dey warnt business nough for two banks, so he say I could put in my five dollars en he pay me thirty-five at de en er de year.

"So I done it. Den I recknd Id inves de thirty-five dollars right off en keep things a-movin. Dey wuz a nigger name Bob, dat had ketched a woodflat, en his marster didn know it; en I bought it offn him en told him to take de thirty-five dollars when de en er de year come; but somebody stole de wood-flat dat night, en nex day de one-laigged nigger say de banks busted. So dey didn none uv us git no money."

"What did you do with the ten cents, Jim?"

"Well, I uz gwyne to spen it, but I had a dream, en de dream tole me to give it to a nigger name Balum -- Balums Ass dey call him for short; hes one er dem chuckleheads, you know. But hes lucky, dey say, en I see I warnt lucky. De dream say let Balum inves de ten cents en hed make a raise for me. Well, Balum he tuck de money, en when he wuz in church he hear de preacher say dat whoever give to de po len to de Lord, en boun to git his money back a hundd times. So Balum he tuck en give de ten cents to de po, en laid low to see what wuz gwyne to come of it."

"Well, what did come of it

"Nuffn never come of it. I couldn manage to kleck dat money no way; en Balum he couldn. I ain gwyne to len no mo money dout I see de security. Boun to git yo money back a hundd times, de preacher says! Ef I could git de ten CENTS back, Id call it squah, en be glad er de chanst."

"Well, its all right anyway, Jim, long as youre going to be rich again some time or other."

"Yes; en Is rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en Is wuth eight hundd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn want no mo."