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Show 843 TilE' AlJrENTURES Or' IIUCil:Lb'BERRl~ l·'I~Y-'~ bottom of the town. I tied up and :tarted along the hank There was a light burning in a little shanty that hadn't hccu lived in for a long time, and I wondered who had t ook up quart rs ther . I slipped up and peeped in at t he window. There wa a woman about forty year old in there, knittincr bv b ~ a candle that "·as on a pine table. I didn't know her fnce . she was a stranger, for you couldn't tart a face in that town' that I didu't know. Now this was lucky, because I wa ··weakening; I was g tting afraid I had co1ne; people 1night know my voice and find 1ne out. But if thi.· wo1nan had been in uch a little town hYo days she could tell1ne all I want cl to knmr; ~o I knock d at the door, and rnade up 1ny mind I ·wouldn't forget I \Y(\S n o·irl. I'J 1\ I I .. --;.£.- - "<.:o::uE rx.'' \_ - Ler \ I '.). " CU:\IE in,.. ~ny: the wo1nan, an<l I eli d. ~h ' say · : '· Tak ' a cheer." I done it. ~he ]ookccl 111 all ov r with lwr httl' :hiny eye·, and say· : " \\That 1njght your llalne b ': .. ' ~arah \ri lli<nn. :' " \\'lH·l'l' 'bout · do you li \·e? Jn tlti · 11 ·ighhonrhoou ? ., " No '1n. In 11 oo- • k n ·ille, c\·cn Jnile below. 1\· ' 'ralkcd all the way, and l'n1 alL tired out.'' " 1 r ungry, too, I reckon. I'll fincl you ·on1 thing.,, "No'm, I ain't hungry. I was so hungry 1 bncl to stop tw.o 1nile below here at a farm ; ·o I ain't hungry n Inorc. 1 t ~ what makes me o lat '. l\Iy 1nothcr's down ick, and out of mon y and everything, and I cotne to tell my uncl Abner ~Ioore. He lives at the upp r end of the town, she ay ·. I hain 't ever been here before. Do you k~ow hirn? ., |