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Show Hy rights I rr ·kon w onght to be a coupl of yPars; but we -can't. Thing b ing o uncertain, what I recom1nend i · thi:: that w rea11y dig right in, as quiek a w can; and after that, we can lel on, to our elves, that'"" was at it thirty-seven years. Then we can snatrh hin1 out and ru h hin1 away the fir:t i inw there· ... a11 alann. l~c~, I reckon that'll be the be t 'vay.'' "X ow, there·. Reuse in that," I say.·. "Letting on don't co t nothing; l \Uing on ain't, no trouble; and if it'~ any ohj<\ct, I don't 1nind l tt ing on we wa at it a hundred and tift y year. IL wonldn 't . train n1c none, aft rr I got n1y hand jn. ~o I'll tno. cy along now, an<l ·n1onch a ronplc of ca c-knivc:.'' ' S1nouch l hrec,'' he ·ny · ; "we 'Yant one io 1nake a ~aw out of.'' "Tmn, if iL ain't unreguJar and irreligious to .·cjest it;• I say:, "there's an olcl ru ·ty aw-bladc around yondPr st irking under the weaLhcrboarding behind the srnoke-hou c.'' 1 [e look cl kind of weary and cli~courag cl-likc, and .. ay:-; : "It ain't no nse to try to l c<.nn you nothing, J(nck. Hnn along and .. mouch the kniYcs-threc of them." Ho I done it. a ter X - _j - -- .. ... GOING DOWN THE LI GHT~ING-ROD. As soon a: ''"" r ekon tl c \·crybody 'ras a..;lc 'p, that night, we went down t lH' lightning-rod, ancl :hut our: lv s up in the l an-to, a1Hl got out our pile of fox-fire, and went to work. ,, .... <" cleared cveryLhing out of the way, about four or fi v "\ foot along the middle of t h hottmn log. Tom said he wa rigltt bel1incl Jim' b d now, ancl w ,~d <lig in uncl r it, anti 'vl1 n we goL through th re couldn't nobody in the cabin ever know there was any hole th n), brcau '(' Jim's counterpin hung down n1ost to the grountl, and you ·u have to raise it, up and look under to sec the hole. So w dug and dug, with the ea c-kniYes, till mo. t midnight; and then we wa: dog-tired, and our hands wa bJi t reel, and yet you couldn't ee ·we'd clone anything, hardly. At la -t I say·: |