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Show '" Xo- noi, in1pndent wlt lp~, ~id. 'You ou(rht to h:t<l yonr jaw::; box d ; I hai11't been o pni out ~inee I do11·t know \\ lt('ll. Bni I dnn·t 'ar~ I llon·t Inin<l the trnn -l'd bP \\illil lt! io '- ~tan(l a thou mHl. uch jok s to have you h<'re. \\'" 11, io ihink of that p(~rfonnanct ! I tlon't <l n. ' it I wn 1nost put rific~cl ·with a._tOlJi::;lun 'ni \Vhl'n you aiyc llH' i haL sn1a ~k.' \\r had cli11n r out iu i hat bl'oad open passag<' bt'hri xt tlu' h US(' <nld the kitchrn; and thl'r) \Ya~ thingH enoug·h on that ~- -- -· U;t\- '\, - f. ' \I )q l I \ ·11:~ \ ,; I r ~...:::- r ~ ~. <•: t,.." 1 ; - r\!(-n I t' I I\' ,; J ~ ', I I I II '/ ~ , ) r.: .., '· r ,' A l'ni-:TTY LO~(~ BLI~:-i ~lX<: . tabl' for Pvcu farnilics-ancl all hot i oo; non of your llabhy iough 1n ai that': laid inn, cupboard in a da1np cellar all night and taste · like a hunk of old colcl cannibal in tl1e 1norning. l11rk Sila. he ar-·kccl a pretty long llcs:;ing over it, but it was \Hnth ii ; aDd it dicln 't c ol it a bit ncit her the way l'vr I c n i hcn1 kind of int rrnption do, lot · of i in1c . There \Yas a con. icl rabl ~ g o l clc al of talk, all the aft crnoon, and m and Ton1 wa n the lo k-out all the i i1ne, hut iL '!' .. LR ... -l.YJJ l•'L'~ I 'J.'JIL'n '. "arn 'L no u tlt '.V didn't l1app011 to ~<1 nothiug abo1tt a11v r nna w n y u i gg , r n n d '' , w a.· a f m i < 1 to t r ' i o '\ or k up to i L n tl t :d supp r, at night, ne of i It' lilLl<' boy~ .'(\y~·: "Pn, 1nayn't 'l\nn and Sid <u1cl 1ne go io thl' .Ito\\?., 'No,'' 'aystlt oldn1an "lreckoni lter' aiu'Lgoing toh<' an. ; and you ·ouJun'L g-o if t l1cre \ra.'; hecan:e t IlL rtn1 a\\;t.\ 11 igger told Burton and .I'll' all abouL that. :eantlalou~ 'ho\\, aucl Burton .. aid ltc \\·ould tell th people ; ,'o lr ekon t h, r'vc drov t h c owdaciou loafer out of to\rn b fore i.lti t i Ill • " o titer it \\·a.· !-but [ couldn·L h ·lp it. Tmn anlllnc \\ a~ to slc 'P in the · ~un roo1n and becl · so, being tired, \n~ bi<l good-nighL and w e1 d.~ up to bed, rigl1L after ~upp<'r ;nul dnmh out of th \rin c1ow <11Hl clown the hgl1tning-rod, and .·lwved for tl1e town; for I didn't believe anyboc1 \\il~ going to gi\·' ilt ~ king· and tl1e duke n hint n11.<l :o, if I diclu't hnny up anll <rin' t h 'tn one t lley\l get into Lroub1 tiUn' . On tl1e roacl Tom l1' tol<l1ne all <lhout l10w iL \ras n•ckmle<l I w;t.' nnudcrecl, and how pap cli,'app 'ared pretty soo11, ;uul didn't co1nc back no Jnor , ancl ''bat a ~tir tl1rre wa~ \rhen tJ int run awny; and I told 'l'o1n all abont our l{oyal <HlC ueh rapf'eal1ions, and a.· 1nuch of the raft -voyag' as I hacl titn to; and as wr truck into th' t<)\n1 an(l np tltrou<rlt t h ~ 1ni<.ldle of it-it wa.· a· 1nuch a half-aft r ight, th n-hrre co1n sa ragiug rn. h of people, with tor ·h and a11 ctwful wlH>opi11g and yclliug. and hanging tin pan,· an<l blowing ltorn.'; a1Hl w jtnnpl'(l io on i(lc i 1 t t lle1n go by; and a, th y \rent by, I s e i h 'Y had the king and the clnkc a ·t raddl of a rnil- t hat i~ I kno\\ •tl it 1ccrs th<' king a11d the duke, though they was all oY 'r tar ancl featl1cr~, ancl clidn'L look 1ik, nothi11g in the \Yorld that \rH~ ltuJnan- jn.t looked lik a conpl of 1nonstrons hia ~'oldierplulne . \\r ell, it n1ad 1ne sick i o s<' ' it ; n ll(l I wa.· ·orry for t lten1 poor pit iful ra: ·a h.;, it fL'Cm c1 li k I couldn't cv r f l't ~1 ~n1y hanln' ngain t th n1 anv n1orc in i IH· world. It "a." a |