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Show J7 TilE AJJrEATTURES OJ/ IIUCKLEBERRY l·'Il\' ... l.( beat of it, in all my born days. A shirt, and a sh ct, and a ~poon, and ix cnn--" "~ii: us,., comes a young yallcr 'vench, "dey'~ a bra, s canne1 ' h.c 1 ( m1. s.· .n :., " Cler out frotn to ye! ., r herr, you hussy, cr rn take a skillet ( ) I v I - ",.\ll. ... l;S, DEY'S A SHEET GOXE." \r· ell, ·he \ras just a biling. I begun to lay for a chance; I reckoned I would sneak out and go for the woods till the weather moderated. She kept a raging right along, running her insurrection all by h erself, and everybody else mighty meek and quiet; and at last Uncle Silas, looking kind of foolish, JJ-IOOJV. lJY. O ARO U1.YD. fishes up that spoon out of hi.· pock t . She stopped, with 1lC'r 1nouth open and h er han(ls up; and as for 1n )~ I wi,·hc<l I \YHS in J ern lem or somewhere . But not long; becau ·c ,he :ays: "It's jn t as I expect )d. ~o you had it in your pockPL nll the time; and lik as not you've got the other thing: there, too. IIo,v'd it get t her ? ., "I re ly don't know, ~ 1 a1l y,"' h . ay.:, kin<l of npologi..;ing, "or you know I wouhl t ll. l \ras a- 'tu<lying over 1ny text in Acts Seventeen, before brcakfa t, ancl I reckon I pnt iL in there, not n oticing, 1ncaning to put 1ny T e:t <Hncni in, a1Hl it must be so, b ecause rny Te. tam nt ain't in, hut r·n go an<l ·r ', and if the Testcnncnt iti \vb re I ha<l it, I'll kn ow I didn't pnt it in, and that \vill . how that I laid t he T 'siatnen t down and took up the poon, an(l ., "Oh, for the lancl's sake! G ire a hody a l't' ~t ~ Go 'lo11g now, the whole kit nn<l biling of .ve; n1Hl do11't C:(nne nigh llle again till 1\' got back 111y peaC<' of Inind: ' l '(l a h eard h er, if ·he'cl a saitl it to hcr:c1f, ]pj alone ~l><'aking it onL ; and 1\l a got up <HHl ob('yc<l h r, if I'd a b(' ·n dead . As we \vas passing through the :etting-roo1n, th ol<l 1nan h<' took up hi hat, and the hingle-nail f ·ll out on the floor, aud he just mer 'ly pick '<l it. up and lai<l it on the nlantcl-:-;hclf, and never said nothing, ancl w nt out. To1n see hi1n <lo iL, an<l remember cl about ih · spoor:, <Ul<l :ay : "'y 11, it ain't no n~P to scn<l thing, hy hint no rnore, lH~ ain't reliable.' Then he ·ay : "Rut he clone u n. goo<l turn \vith the poon, anyway, without knowing it, and :o 've '11 go and do him one '"-ithout hirn knowing it- top 111) hi ratholes." There was a noble goocl lot of th In, <lown cellar, <nul it took us a whole hour, but we don the j ob tight an(l good, aiH 1 hip- hape. Then w heard step on the tairs, and Llowecl out |
