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Show TilE ADVJ~}t~TURES O~P IIUCI(LEBL'RRY. FI.~.V_\~ gwyne to swi1n to de raf' agin 'vhen dey was gone. But law:y, h w you did fool ~ 1n, Huck ! J)at 1u ~~z rl s1nartes' clodg ! I tell y u, chil I~ p ck it aye~ ole Jim-ole Jim ain"t gwync to forgit you for clat honey." Then we talk d about the mon y. It wa , a pretty good rai:::;c, twenty dollar. apiece. J i1n said we could ta k<' deck pa~sage on a teamboat now, and the n1oney would la"t us a:-; far a.· w wanted to go in the fre tate·. }[ ·aid twc\nty Inil n1ore wnrn·L far for the raft to go, but h . wi.'hed we wa: already there. Toward· dnybreak we tied up, and Jim wa · mighty particular about hidincr the raft good. 'I'h n he workPd nll day fixing things in bundl s, and getting all ready to quit raftjng. That night about ten we hove in sight of th ) lights of a town away clown in a l ft hand bencl. I went off in th => canoe, to ask about it. Pretty :oon 1 found a man out in th ri \'er with a skiff, sctt.ing a trot~-line. I rang d up and ~ays : ' l\'Ii t )r, is that t wn Cairo ? '' " Cairo? no. ) "" ou 1nu t be a bla1ne' fool.'' " \\""haL town is it, 1ni t r? " " If you want to know, go and find out. hot h<•rin" around 1n" for about half a 1ninut , ,'OmPthing you wonl want.' If you ·tay her long r, you'll get I paddled to i he raft. .Jin1 was awful disappoint d, but 1 ·aid n ver mind, Cairo would be the next place, I r ckon d. \V. .pas ed a~1oth r town befor daylight, and I was going out agau1; but 1t was high ground, so I didn ~t go. N 0 high ground about Cairo, Jiin said. I had forgot it. vV e laid UJ! for t h day, on a tow-heacl tolerably clo e to th 1 ft-hand· bank. I begun to su pi ion so1n thing. So did Jirn. I say : "~1aybe we went by airo in the fog that night." R UJY .. YLYG B r· CAIRO. J -~ . ~ lir say : "Doan' 1 ss' talk about it, lfuck. Po" niggPr ' l'an·t havt• no luck. I a\vluz ~~p cL d dat rattl -snak skin warn't dmH· wicl j t w rk ." ' I wi. h I\1 n ver R en that snak -. kiu .Tinl -I d wi ·h l'<l HeYer laid ye on it.~ "It ain't yo' fault, l[uek; you clidn' know. Don't yon blatn yo·. lf 'bout it.'' \Yh n it was daylight, h r wa thP el nr Ohio watrr i11 . !torr, sure enoucrh an<l ont ide wa th ' old regn Ln :\I uddy ! .~o it wn all up with Cairo. \Ye talk cl it all v r. It ,,-ouhln"t do to tak to the shor ; w couldn "t taketh raft up the .. t r (l.ll1 of <.!OllL' (\ . TlH·n· \varn·t no way but to wait for dark, and , tart back in the eano and take the chance . • ' we slrpt all dny arn 11gst th ' cot ton-wood t hi ket, ~ o a. to b fn:~. h for th work, an< l whr n wr w )nl ba,.l· t the raft abor!.t <lark th' cano was gone: ~ ''re dicln~t ay a w rd for a g ood whih·. Th r wnrn~ t anything to ·ay. \\""e both kn wed well enouglt it '"-a: . om IHOl'<' work f the rat tlc- nak kin ; .·o what wast he u:"' to talk about it? It would only look lik we· was fincling fault ancl that would 1) bound to fetch m r ba<l ln<.:k-ancl ke<·p n1 fe l·hing it, too, till w know <1 n ugh to k <'t> :till. By-and-by we talk d about what. wr l p{ t 'l' clo, ancl fonnd ihere warn't no \vay but jut to o·o along down with th raft till we got a chanc to buy a cano to go back in. \\'"<• warn 't g jncr to borrow it when tlH'r ·warn"t anyh Hly around the way pap would do, for that rnight set p ople aftC'r lL. o we shoved out., aftrr <lark, on th raft. Anybody that don·t b<·liev yet, that it, fooli bne · io hanclle a snake-skin aft r all that that nakc- kin don for u. will b lieve it now, if they r arl on and ~0r what 111 r l it d 11<' for us. |