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Show 178 TilE ADrl?1YTURE8 O~F IIU('J(LEBERR1~ ~PIN.1.:~~ ,vatched the daylight cmne. Nola ·ound anywh rc -perfectly still-just like the \vhole world wa. asleep, only ·on1etirne: the bull-frogs a-clattering, mayb . The first thing to ce, lookinO' away over the \vater, \Va · a kind of dull line-that wa the woods on t'oth r icl -yon conl<ln't rnak nothing l 'C out; then a pale place in the sky ; t h n more palene ·, spreading around; then th riYer softened up, away off, ant1 warn'i black any rnore, but gray ; you could · c little dark .:p t. · clrifUng along, ever so far a\vay--trading .'cows, and such tlungs; :tncl long black streak ·-raft ; sornctirnc: you coulcl h ar a .·weep screaking ; or jnrnbl d up yoices, it \ras so ~till, ancl sonnu~ come so far; and by-and-by yon could see a stn\ak on thr water which you know by the look of t h ~h·eak thai there's a nag there in a S\·rift current ·which break on it and makes that str ak l ok that way ; ancl you ' th 1nist enrl up off of the water, and the ea:t reddens up, and the ri \'Cr, <mel you mak out a log cabin in the dgc f the \\·oods, <-nvay on th bank on t'other ide of th riv r, being a \\·ood-yard, likely: an<l piled by them cheats so y u can t.Jn·o\v a dog through ii nnywheres; then the nice breeze springs up, and com s funning you from ov r there, so cool and fr sh, and S\VC t to 'Incll, on ~ccount of the wood· and the flower · ; but someti1nes not that ·way, because th y've left dead fi ·h laying aroun<l, gar8, and ·uch, and ih y do get pretty rank ; nnd next you'yc got the full day, and v rything smiling in the sun, and the ·ong-hird. just going it ! A little smoke couldn't b noticed, now, so \Ye \vou1d take some fi~ ·h off of the lines and co k up a hot breakfast. And afterwards w would watch the lonesomenc · of th ri v r, and kind of lazy along, and by-and-by lazy off to leep. \\rake up, hy-and-by, and look to see \vhat done it, and maybe ce a steamb at, coughing along up ctr an1, so far off toward the other id you couldn't tell nothing about her only whether she 1'17 •. .\"G rp DAl ~-TLJfE '. J/D wa.. tern-wh l or i<1 "'-·whe 1; then for about an hour t h re wouldn't be nothing to hear n r nothing to s ·c- ju L solid Ion . om ne~· . N xt you'd sr a raft liding by, away off yond r, an l maybe a gal ot on it chopping, bccnu c they re mo.J always doing it on a raft; yon <1 sc\e the axe fla h, and 'OHlC tl wn-you don't hear nothing; yon s that axe go np nCYain, and by the tim(~ it's abov th Hl:ln' ~ h ad, th n you h \~u· th lt·'ch~tnJ· .'- it had took all that i intc to con1e ov r t h wat cr. ~o we "\Yonl<l put in th day, lazyin()' around, li:tc~ning to thP stillness. ( nee th re \Va. a thick fog and th rafL' au<l thing · that ' ent by wa b ating tin pan~ ~·o iho stran1boaL~ wonldn'L rnn o' r th(m. A , cow or a rafl w ni by so cl sr w could hear th 111 ialkin(r ,....., and en ·ing and laughing-heard th n1 plain ; but we couldn't I ·r e no sign of thent; it lllade you £ l crawly, it wa. like pirits \arrying on that wny in 1 hr air. .Ji1n . aiel he b licvrcl i1 wt~ spirit · but I ay. : " T o, , 1n• n't s won1 (1 11 t I ay, ' d rn th d 'nl fog.·" non a· it wn: nicrht, out w 'hov <1 ,· when we o· t h r ut n b t about the rnid<llc\, we' I t h r alon , an<1 let h r float \Vh r - evPr the CUlT< nt waut<'cl h \r to; th n \n\ lit the pip .. , a11d danglc'cl our legs in t h wat r and talked abouL all kinds of things- we wa alw<ty.· nal·cd, dny and night, wh n v r thr rno~:qnito would let u - th n ·w clothe: Buek's folk , macle for Ine ·wa too g >od io h COn1fortahl ' anu be:iurs I cliun'L go tnnch on clothe-, nohow. ~ometirncs w .\l hav(\ that wh l riv r all to our· lv .. for On' longe t time. l~ ond •r was th bank~ and the i lands, acro:s tl1 water; and mayb a spark - which was a candle in a cabin window- and som ti1n on ihe wat r you ·ould , e a park or two-on a raft or a ·ow, you know; and maybe you could hrar a fiddl or a song coming o\·er from on of thmn crafts. It's I v 1y to live on a raft. We had the sky, up th r :., all p cklc<l with stars, and we u eel to lay on our baeks and look up at |