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Show TILE A.DrE-Y'l'URH." OF JlCCI\:LE!JERRJT FI_._Y. .Y. . after they had got a\yay front the prairi fann . I shot thi: fellow and took hitn into can1 p. I io ..1 k the axe ancl : tnaJu~cl in tlH\ Joor. I heat it and hack d it con.'iderabl \' a-doing it. I f tehed Lb pig in and t ok hi1n baek nearly to th \ tahle and hacked into hi · throat with the axe, nncl laid hin1 down on the ground to blecd- I .ay ground, becau. e iL tturts g round--bani patked, and no board.·. \Y 11, next I took an ol<l . a<:k and put a lot of big rocks in it,~ 111 l could tlrag- :nHl I started it frmu the pig and clragg cl it to the cloor and throng·h the \rood.· down to t he river and dumpc(l it in, ancl <.lown it. ·unk, ont of ~ight. -You could cay see thai HOinething ba<l lwrn drng~rd o\·cr the ground. I did '\Yi.·h Tom Nawycr wn. there, I kno\rc(l lH\ would tak an intere ... t in t his kind of bu ~ i ness, and throw in the fancy touches. Nobody eou1cl . pread hi1n lf lik0 Tou1 ~awy r in ~ nch n thing ns t hat. \\'" ·11, last I pnll d uut som of Jny lHlir, and bloodied the axr goo<l, and. t nck it on t l1e !Jack ide, and ~:dung t.he axe in th( '01'1101'. Th n I took up the pig (llHl helcl hint to 1ny br at '\rilh 1ny jacket (. o he coultln't drip) till I got a good piece below the hou. and then dumped hint into the ri\" r. :Now I thought of so1nething Le. So I \rent ancl got the bag of meal and 1ny o1cl sa:w out of the canoe and fetched t hcrn to the hou c. I took t]H bag to where it used. i o stand and rippc•d a hole in t h bottom of it \rith the sa\r, for there warn't no knives and fork. on t lw place-pap done verything with hi: cla:p-knif , about the cooking. Then I carried the . ack about a hundred yard· across 1 he gra. and through the willow ea t of the house, to n shallow lake that was five mile: wi<lc and full of rushes--and ducks too, you .might say, i~1 the scaso11. There was a slough or a creek 1 ad1ng out of It on the other id , that went 111il s away, J d.on t know where, bnt it didn't go to the river. The n1et1l stfted out and 1nade a little track all the way to th~ lake. 1 dropped pap'l::l whetstone there too, so as to look lik , it hml been done by accicl nt. Th n 1 1 i<)tl up th rip in t l1P 1nral f'ack with a strinrr, so it \vouldn't leak 110 1norc an(l took iL and rny .'nw to the cano ngGin. ]twa. about dark, no\\· ; so 1 (lropp d the canoe clown th<\ riv r uncier sotnc willow. thnt hn11g O\' r the bank, ancl waitc·<l for the Jnoon t rise. l 1nncl<\ fn.t to a 'rillow; then I look a lJitc to eat, and by-and-by ht.id do,vn in t he cano' to 1nokc a pip and lay out a l>lan. I f:lays to 1ny elf, t lH·y'll fo1lO\\. the track of that ackfnl of rocks i o the ~ltor 2 (1ncl th n clrng t ltc\ river for 111 • . And th 'y'll follow that nH'al tra<:k to the l:tk ~ and ao browsincr clown th ' re 'k that 1 'ilds out of it to fincl the b 0 robbers that kill .. d llH~ a ncl took th e· things. They won'L <'ver bunt th • riv r for anything but n1y clc~ul c:arca :-:. T hey'll ,non g{lt tirecl of t hat·, ancl won't bother no 1nore abont JlH'. All right; I can 'top anywh re I want to. .Jack on' I ·lantl i::; good enough for nte ; I know that i 'laud pretty well, ancl nobody '\'er com s there. Aucl then I can paJdl or er to t wn 11ig·ht~, :n1l .·link around anclpick up thing: I want. .Ta<: k~on · ~ I~lan<l\; the place. I was pr )tty tired, an(l th fin;L thing I knu\\ Ccl, r wa~ asleep. 'rh n I woke up I dic.ln't kno\v ·where J wa s, for a 1ninutr. I set up and 1ook cl around, a little ··carc(l. 'l'h ·n l t'Cll\Clnbcreu. Tb riv r lookec.l 1l tile:-~ anu Jnilc: nero~~ . The uwon was s bright I c uld n count tl the drift log· t hat went :1 ·lir)r)inO' nlono- black and still hundreds f vnnls out fr 1n 0 b' - ' J ~hore. Er)rything was clad q uiet, ancl it looked late, nncl ~·nnelt late. l"' ou know what .I Jn c<~n-I don't k now t he wonls to put it in. I took a good gnp Hnd a str tch, nnd wa · ju t going to unltitch and . bnt, '\vhen [ h nrd a .. ·ouncl a\ray o\· r t h wat r . ( li tened. l>retty soon 1 1nacle it out. It '\Yn. that d ull kind of :..t regular souncl that o1nes fro1n oars \vorki11g in rowlocks when its a still njght. I peeped out. through th' \Yillow· branc1tt' ' |
