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Show 7U 1'IIL' AIJJ"J:.:. .Y. TURES 01•' lf(i('J\:LL'BE'llRl. FIJ.Y~Y. till at last it wa~· O\~Cr the bank~. The_· water was three or four foot deep on thP i~land in the low places and on thn Illinois bot tom. On that side it was a goocl nuu1y miles wide; but. on i he J\Iissouri id(' it was the san1e ol<l di.'tanc aero ·~-a half a 1nile-b cause the l\1issouri shon· wa: just a \-Vall of high bluff: . Dayti1ne · Wt' paddl d all over t h<' i.land in the canoe. Il wa8 Inighty cool and shady in th cl<·ep woods v n if the un 'Ya blazing out side. \Y e went ·wincliug in and out a1nougst the i rec. ; and S<nnct ime. · the vin hung . ·o thick lve had to back away and go so1nc other way. vY ell, n every old brol\: n-down 1rc<' you could s<~e rabbits, and snakes, ancl such tldngs; and when ih<.' i.·laud had been overflowed a day or two, they got . o t mne, on account of being hungry, that you could pa<ldlc right up and put your hand on the1n if yon wanted to ; but not llw . ·nak an<l turtles-they would I lide off in the w:.tt ()r. The ridge our ca V<'rn \Ya in was full of t hf'Jn. \\r could a had pet ('nough if W(' \ l \ranted them. On night wr catchc(l a little ed ioll of a lumber raft - niec pin ' plank . It was t welv foot wide and about tift er11 or ·ixt ern foot-. long, and the top I ·tood abo\· 'rater six or scrcn inch?., a solid leY(~ I floor. \\r e could ~ce aw-log, go by in the <layhght, I ·ometin1es, but we let t h 'Jn go ; w didn'L . how our.. <'lve ·in daylight. . Another night, when lve wa up at i he head of t h<' i ·land, J u t before day lig·ht, here come · a fran1e house down, on the \vest ide. Sht> was a two- 'torey, and tilted over, considerable. \\r paddle<l oui and got aboard -chun b in at an upstair · wil1- Jow. But it wa · too dark to se-' y<'t, o \VC 1nacle the canoe fast and s t in h r to wait for daylio·ht. . The light b gun to come befor: we got to the foot of the 1 ·land. Then w ' looked in at the windO\Y. vY e could make out a bed, and a table, and two old chairs, and lots of things TILE FLOA .. TING HOTISE. 77 around about on the floor; and ih rc was clothes hanging again.t the wall. There was somet bing laying on th tloor in the far corner that look cllik a 1nan. ~ 10 .Jin1 . ay. : " 1 [ llo, you ! '' Bnt it didn't budg . ~ 10 I hollered again, and then Ji1n says: "De man ain,t a. l ep- h e,s dead. ) you hold iill-rlJ go en sec." ·------- / / ·. ,JUf .'EES A DEAD ~\lAX. }[e went and bent down and looked, and ays : "It's a dead man. Yes, indeedy ; naked, too. l[e' b n shot in de back. I reck'n he ·s b n dead two er three days. Come in Huck but doan' look at his face-it's too ga hly." I did'n 't look' at him at all. Jim throwed some old rags over him, but he needn't done it ; I didn't want to see him. There |