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Show 404: ao" ouu~ 11 a lf- pa. t cleY 11 ' and Tom put on Aunt Sally's dres <- • that hr stole and wa going to 'tart w1th the lunch , but ays: \\'"her ~s the butter?· 1 1aill nt a h un 1z o f 1't ' ·· I a.v1 ... , "on a 1)iecc of n corn- .. pone. . . . .. , .. \Yell you left it ]ai<l out tlH'n--l t ant there. "\r 0 can get along wit hont it,'' l ·ays. ' \Y e <.:an get along 1u i th it, too,'' he says ; '~ j u~t yon slitle down celbr aud fetch it. And i h ~n 1110 ey nght clo\Yll the 1icrhtni:1a-rocl and con1c along. I'll go nn<l. tuff th<' straw into .T~11• , cl~thes to represent hi.' 1nother in disguis<', nn <l be rcndy to ba like a sheep and shove soon a· yon get there." :-;0 out he ,vent, aud clown cellar went J. The hnnk of butter big as a person's ti~t, ''as where I bad left it, so 1 took np the slab of <.:orn-ponc with jt on, and blowccl ont 1ny liaht, and . tt~rt '<l upstairs, yery stealthy, and got np to the 1nain floor all right, but here co1nc: Annt • ~ally \rith a can<llr, and I clapped tbr truck in Jny hat, an<l clnppcd 1ny hat on Jny head, and thr next second :he se<' Jll(' ; and t'hc say. : "l~ou been down cellar? ·· "\\'haL you been cloing down there ? ,. "Xoth'n.'' ").Y-o/ It 'n ! ., " "'\.i ' ., ~'om. '· \\~e1l, then, what po:sc ·;:,eel you to go clown there, this tin1e of night?" " I clon 't. know '1n •. , '" l~ on don't l_;no'w ? J)on't an wer me that \vay, Tom, I want to know what yon been cloinrt down there?·· "I hain't been doing a ingle thing, Aunt ~ ally, I hope to gracion if I have .. , I reckoned she'd let me go, now, and as a generl thing she 'f'IIE 1-IGILAJ:lCE CO.l1 .. 'Jill'J'TJ:.'L'. -1 05 would; but I s'pose ther wa o many strang thing go1ng on she was j u "'t in a S\veat n bout every liLU thing that warn 't yard-stick ~traight ; ·o sh.. ay , very d cicl cl: "You just 1uarch into that setting-ro m nnd :b1y ther till I come. ·you b een up to something you no bttsine s to, and I lay I'll find out what it is before I'm done with you." ~ 1 0 he went away as I opened th door and walkccl into the - - - -·- . ) E\' I~ RY 0:,'"1-.; IIAD A <: ~ - ~. .·ctting-roonL ~\I y, ln1t then\ wns a crowd tl:Pr ~ Fifteen farn1er~, ancl <·very one of thctn ha(l a gun. I wa rno. t powerful sick, ancl .-lunk to a chair and s \t down. ThPy was setting around sorne of then1. talking a little, in a lo\v voice, and all of th m fidgety and unea .. y, but trying to look like they warn't ; but I knowecl they wa , lecause they was ahvays taking off their hats, and puttjng them on, and scratching their head~, and changing their seats, and furubling with i heir bnttons. |