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Show ~0 TIIB ADVENTURRS OJ/ IIUCii.LL~BL'RR1~ FI..V.\. ~ rou t 111 out, you hear'? That man warn't her for no good. I'd a shot hirn. N xt timr , you ron t 1n :> out, you hear r " Th n he dropped d wn and went to sleep again-but what h had been . aying givr 1ne the very icl a I \Van ted. I say. to 1ny~clf, 1 can fix it now nohody \von't think of following n1e. About twelve o'cl ck we turned out and went along up the l)an k. The river wa cmning up pr tty fa t, and lots of driftwoo( l gojng by on the ri ·c. By-and-by, a1oug co1ne part of ;1 lorr raft-nine }orr. fa .. t torrcther. \Ye went out ·with the ~kiff b 0 <..J and to\Y ,cl it a. horc. Then we had dinner. Anybody but pap wou1J a waited and 'C n the clay through, .·o as to catch 1nore :tuff; hnt that warn't pnp'~ ~tylc. Nine log.· was nough for onr i. i1ne ; he 1nu. t shoYe right over to town and selL So he locked 1ne in and took the ~kiff ancl sLartcd off towing the raft about ha1f-pa. t three. I j uclgccl he wouldn't cou1e back that night. I \raitctl till I reckoned he had got a good .tart, then l out with 1ny :aw ancl went to work on that Jog again. Before h ' wa. fothcr dele of the ri\·er I was out of the hole; him and. hi raft wa. j n ·t a p ck on the water away off yonder. I took the ack of 'Orn 1neal and took it to wh re the eanoc \Vas hid, and 'hoved the Yines and branches apart and put it in; t.hPn I done the arne with the side of bacon; then the whi ~ky jug; I took all th coffee and sugar th re wa , and all th' amtnunition; I t ook the wadding; I took the bucket all(l gourd, I took a dipp ~r and a tin cup, an<.lrny old aw and two hl:tukets, and the skill ' t ancl the coffe -pot. I took fi h-line.' ancl rna tchc. and olher thing ·-everything that ,vas worth a ecnt. I clrnned out the place. I wanted an axe, but there· wasn't any, only the one out at the wood pil ', and I knowc(l why I wa. going to leave tbat. I fetched out the gun, and now I wa clone. I had ~vore the ground a good deal, crawling out of the hole an<1 clrngg1ng out so many things. So I fixed that a good cV Pl~EI>.ARJ. .l. . ;. (; TO I '1'. !R T. vt I could from the out ide by se:d.Lcri ng flu -t on the pla<.·P, which cov r ,d up the ·tnoothnes: an<l t ht• sawdu: t. 'l'h n I fixed the pi 'ce of log back into it: pla ·e, and put two rocks und r it and one again. tit to hold it, Lh 'r',- for it wa: bent ltp at that plac , antl <.licln't ctniLc touc11 ground. If you too(l four or fi vc foot away and didn't know j t 'nL' sawed, yon woulcln'L ever notice it; and bc.- i<lc .', tl1is \\·:ts the hack of tlH~ ' , . ., I ~ ,. I tM ~ 1\'\"l-'• •• SHOOTJ:\<: TilE J' J(,, eabin antl it \Yarn'l 1ikely anybody WOllld go fooling ~tronnd th rc. It. wnt) all gra ',' ('1 ar to the canoe ; .-o I lwdu't l<'ft 11 t rnck. I-follo\vccl arountl to ' I .'Loo(l on the bank anc1 looked out OYer the river. A 1L :n.f . • · o 1 took tb gun and '" '11 t up a pice into the \YOo'-ls aucl \vas hunlinrr around for :on1e bird:, when I sec a wilcl pig; hog · f-'OOll " cnt wilcl in thc1n bottoms Jl. ~ |