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3 crops fail, & as a sort of finale Tom's wife presents him with an old-fashioned sort of Son & heir who is call Tom after his Sire. The crops having failed, affairs gone badly & all the ready money expended principally after the Wife in finery, and his Wardrobe getting very seedy, he having been laid up with chills & fevers for sometime, she begins certain lectures. Chills continue, he becomes debilitated - She waxes peevish & commanding, knowing that she made a man of him & that all the Niggers are hers - A scene commences early one morning ere day break