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Show 73 TilE ADrE.A'TURES OF IIUCitLEBERlll~ J<'I..Y~Y. wa. heaps of old greasy cards scattered around o\· r the floor, and old whi ky b ttles, and a couple of nwsks made out of black <:loth; and all ov r th wall was the ignorantest kind of word and picture , n1ade with charcoal. Th )re wa t. wo old dirty calico flre 'Ses,and a sun-bonn t,and somewomen~s under-clothes, hanging again 't the wall, and orne men'· clothing, too. y..,r e put the lot into th canoe; it might come good. There was a bo/s old speckled .. traw hat on the floor ; I took that too. And ther wa a bottle that had had 1nilk in it; and it had a rag : t pper for a baby to uck. ''re would a took the hott1c, but it \vas brokP. Ther wa a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with th bing , broke. They tood open, but there warn't nothing 1 ft in them that was any account. Th way things wa scattered about, we reckoned the people len in a hurry and \Yarn't fixed ~o as to carry off 1nost of their stuff. \Y e got an old tin lantern, and a butcher knife withouL any handle, ancl a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any :tor , and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old b d-quilt off the bed, and a reticul with needle aucl pins and b swax and buttons and thread and all ·uch truck in it, and a hatchet and o1n) nails, ancl a fi.~h-lin as thick as 1ny little finger, with orne n1on. trous hook on it, ancl a roll of buck kin, and a I ather dog-collar, ancl a bors -shoe, and some vial of medieine that didu 't have no label on the1n; nnd just as we wa leaving I found a tolerable good curry-cotnb, and Jirn he found a ratty old fiddl -bow, and a \vooclen leg. The straps was brok J off of it, but barring that, it wa a good enough 1 g, though it waR too long for me and not long enough for Jim, and we couldn't find th other on , though we hunt d all around. And so, take it all around, we made a good haul. \Vhen w was r ady to shoYe off, we wa .. a quarter of a mile below the i ·land, and it wa · pretty broad day ; so I 1nade Jin1 lay down .A GOOD IL1UL. "I C• ) in the cano and co\·er up with the quilt, hecansr if hr Sl't nn ~ ' people could tell he was a nigger a good way · off. I pacldl <'cl o,·er to the Illinois ·shore, and drift d down 1no t a l ~rdf a 1nil doing it. I crept up the d ad water und r t l 1P bank, ~nH l hadn't no accident and clidn~t . c' nobody. 'y ' got hmn all safe. |