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Show 08 THE ADT"ENTURES OF' IIUCii:LEBBRRY FI1Y1Y. "I laid dah under d shavins all day. I ~uz hungry, but T warn't a feared ; bekase I knowed ole mi s ·u · en de wielder wuz aoin' to start to de camp-meetn' right arter breakfa ' en be gone all day, en dey knows I goes off \vid de cattle ·bout daylight, so dey woulcln' 'spec to see 1ne roun cle plac , en so dey wouldn~ miss 1ne tell arter dark in de evenin'. De yuther . ervants wouldn' miss me, kase d y'd shin out en take holiday, soon as de ole folks 'uz out'n de way. " ''r ell, when it come dark I tuck out np de river road, en \vent 'bout two n1il er more to whah dey \Yarn't no house.·. I'd 1nade up my mine 'bout what I's agwyn to do. You .· \ ef I kep' on tryiu' io git away afoot, de dog.· 'ucl track me; ef I stole a skift to cross over, dey ·d miss dat skift, you see, en dcy'd know 'bout whah I'd Ian' on de yuther side en whah to pick up 1ny track. So I Eays, a raff i: \vhat I's arter; it doan' 11udce no track. "I see a light a-comin' roun' d p·int, by1neby,. o I wade' in en shove' a Iocr ahead o' 1ne, en swu1n 1norc~n half-way acro.'t de river, en got in 'mongst de drift-wood, n kep' n1y h ad clown low, en kinder swum a gin d current ten the raff con1e along. Den I swum to de stern uv it, en tuck aholt. It clouded up en uz pooty dark for a little while. ~o I clun) b up en laid down on de planks. De men 'uz all 'way yonder in de n1idd~e, whah de lantern \vuz. De river wuz arisin' en dey "·uz a good current ; so I reck'n'd- ' a t bY £o ' 1· n d e mawn1· n ' I ·c l be twenty-five mile down de riv r n d n I'd 1· · · · , b'.c . . , ' S lp ln, JlS 10' day hght, en SWlffi asho en take to d wood on de Illinoi . ide. "But I d 1'd n ' h ave no luck. vVhen 've 'uz 1nos' do\Yn to de hea~ er de ,islan', a man begin to come aft wid de lant rn. I see It warn t no u. e fer to wait, so I sli(l ov rboard en struck out fer de islan'· Well, I h a d a noti.o n I could Ian' ' mos' any-wh: rs, but I couldn't-bank too bluff. I 'u.z mos' to de foot er de lslan' b'fo' I foun' a good place. I went into de woods en SIG1YS. (;!) j eclged I \Youldn · fool \rid ruffs no mo', long a: dey 1nove de bntern roun' so. I had my pipe n a plug er dog-l g, f\11 • orne 1natches in my cap, en dey warn't wet, so I 'uz all right.'' " And so yon ain't had no ffi()at nor bread to eat all thi · · t in1e? " '"hy didn't you gPt mud-turkles? " "II ow you g"vync to git'm? You can't .lip up on 1nn en grab u1n; en ho·w·:) a IJ dy gwyne to hit. un1 wid a rock? }[ow could a body do it in de night'! en I warn't gwyne to .:how mysef on d ~ bank in de daytiu1e." ""7 ell, that's so. )~on\· ... had to ke<.'p in tht\ wood.-· all the time, of cour ·e. J)id you hear ' rn sh oting th cannon 'I " " Oh, y B. I knowed dey wa~ arter you. I se 1un go by heah ; watch d u1n thoo de hn ,h ." Som young birds come along, flying a yard or two at a ti1n and lighting. .Tin1 ·aid it \Yas a . ign iL \ras g ing to rain. J[ aid it 'va a sign when young chickens flew that way, and so h reckon d it wa ~ the ·ame way whc)n young bird · don<' it. I wa. going to cai ch s<nne of them, but Ji111 woulcln t] t n1c. lie said it was d atb. II aid his fath er hty 1nighty si ·k one<', and sornc of the1n catched a bird, and hi old granny aiel his father wonld di , and lH\ did. And Jitn said you mH u't count the things you ar0 going t <> cook for dinner, because' that 'vould hring bau luck. Th :alTI(' if you .:ho k the ta.bleclot h after unclown. And h0 said if a 1nan O\VnPd a b e-hi v , and that man died, th be mu t h \ told about it before nn-up next morning, or 0l t hP bee would all \veaken down ancl quit work and die. Jim said he\<' · ·wouldn't stina idiots· but I didn't believ that, b cau.·p I had tri cl them bl ots of ' tim , 1nyself, and th y 'vouldn' t : t'I ng 111 • I had heard about smnc of th e things b \fore, but not all of them. Jim knowed all kind of signs. 1 Ie .·aiel h knowccl 1no t everything. I said it looked to 1ne like all the sign wa · |