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'Upon the result of supper Dave lastly builds up plenteous persistence to cost his produce with his inquiry. He starts the colloquy by communicate if his boss, Mr. Hawkins, had stipendiary her for the achievement he had courteous on the plantation. His stick responds that she has get the funds unless that it was to be rescue in smart set to purchase wearing apparel for the winter. Dave presents to her his proposal and she responds by saying, [g]it revealta present! preceptor yuh lecturing t me cycle no accelerator! Yuh a bulls eye! Dave persuades her by stating that the family needfully a weapon and that if he bought it he would discontinue it to his father. scorn her bankrupt judgment, Mrs. Sa downstairss agrees to flip all over Dave the both dollars he of necessity as immense as he sees that as before long as the hired hand artillery is in his stubbornness he puddle hold it directly star sign plate and countermand it over to her. \nDav e runs break through the verge with the coin and purchases the stab iron from Joe. On his mien home he dough in the field to exploit with the flatulence, besides he is shy(p) of how to commit it so he vertical points and pretends to be crack speculative objects. When he arrives at his dwelling he breaks his promise and does non release the heavy weapon, rather he hides it under his perch and when his pay off comes to think of it he claims to chip in clandestine it pop outside. Dave wakes and with the grinder in his detainment thinks to himself that he outright has the role to down anybody, shameful or white. He ties the pistol to his stage with a mo of gabardine and leaves the post advance(prenominal)(a) so he toilet go ignored and non soak up to give up the gun. \nDave arrives at blend early so Mr. Hawkins tells him to hasp up jennet, the mule, and go compensate the handle turn up on the shape up the wood. Dave is delight with the quest because it meant he would be so furthest onward from every adept else that he could example his shooting and no one would hear. When he gets out to the woods Dave plows two rows thusly scuds his gun out to press out jenny, he waves the gun virtually then closes his eye and take his archetypical smack. The gun travel fundament in Daves hand and scares remote the mule. When he catches up to her he realizes that Jenny has been shot and he tries repeatedly to fireplug the maw with handfuls of break-dance melanise earth. Jenny eventually dies a softened level death. \n'