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Show H> TIJJ;; A.DrE.io.YTURES 01(' IIUCKLEJJERRl- J?J. .V. . ..\ ~ roat1, an l th rc warn't anybody at the church, xc pt nwybe a hog or two for t11 r warn't any lock on th door, and hogs lik s a puncheon floor in summer-time becau~e it's cool. If you n tic , 1nost folk don't go to church only when they\·p got to ; but a hog is diff<'rent. "A~D A .. KED )-IE Ilt' I J.li\ED liEU."' I J_-:_ I f ~ .!1 Snys I to 1nyself o1nething'.s up-it ajn't natural for a girl to be in . uch a sw at about a T ta1n nt ; so I give it a shake, and. out drops a little pieec of pap r with "H alf-pa ·t-t1.vo ., wrote on it with a p neil. I ran ackecl it, but couldn t find nnything else. I couldn't make anything out of that, o I put the paper in the book again, and when I got home and 11p- Hi! I stair:-;, thcr' wa.· 1\Liss Sophia in her loor wnit ing £ r 1nr . :--;}w pull cl1n in aucl ~hut i.h door; then hP looked in the T ·sLtJn nt till she found th pclp ~r, and as s on n' sh' r a<l it ~l te look cl glad; and hefon"\ a bo<.ly could tltink, :h grablwd lll t· and givP JnP a :quePzr,and said Iwas thr h<st b yin the world and not to tell anybody. Sh 'vn: 1nighty red in the· :f;lc , for a 1ninnt e, and her ry : light d 11p, an(l it made' Iter powerful pretty. 1 was a good cl "al a~toni ·lied hut when I got Jny hn)ath I a ·k <l hrr what the pnp<'r wa8 about, and :ht· asked m if I ha<l r nd it., and I said" no;' and .· ht' a:k d 1n ·if 1 conlcl r ad writing, and I told her ".No, nly ('Oa rs<'-hand," :n1d thrn ·h aid the paper warn t anything bnt a hook-nwrl to k ep h r place, and I n1ight go and piny n ow. [ \VPnt off down to the riv r, tudying ovrr t hi: thi11g, a1Hl pretty . oon I notic<'d that my nigg r wa t ll wing alo11g !H·- 11ind. \Vhen w was out of Hight of th hon:<", h 1 oked ha<'k nncl around a , cond, and th n com s a-running, and ~y.· :- ' J)fan; Jawg0, if y u'll c me down int.o d . w~nnp, I'll 1-'llo\\ yon a whole tack o' watrr-mocca ·in . . " Thinks I, that'~ 1nighty curiou ·; he . ni(l that y ·.·Lerdily. 1 [' ought rr kno\v a hocly don't love wat r-n1oc ·asins enough t () go ar un<l hunting for them. "hat is he 11p t anyway? ~o I ~<lJS- " All right, trot ahead. ' I followed a half a mil , th n he . truck out oYrr th .. :walllp an<l wad cl ankl deep a 1nuch as anot h )r hn I f-mi] . \\,. conH' 1 o a littl flat piec of land which was dry nnd ,. ry thic] ' with t n s and bushes and vin s, and h ays- " You shove right in dab, ji t a frw :t <'p , :\Iars Jawg<·, <lnh' .. · whah dey is. I's e d 'm b fo', I don't k 'y r t ·e 'lll no 1no'." Th n h :lopr ed right along and w nt away, and 1n·ptty soon the trees hid him. I pok d into th<' plac) a-w(ty ·• and |