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Show 1 ay:- '' All righL-t hat·~ n1ighty good; they ·won 'L find 1nc, and l hcdl think I've been kill d, and floated down the riYer-t h ' "l' ' ."s om thing up t l1 rc that'll h lp them to think :o- o tlon't you lose no tiDlC, Jim, but just hove off for the big \rat er as fa t a: v r you can.'' I never felt e~t:y till the raft wa two 1nilc b 'low there and nut in the middl' of the Mississippi. Then we hung up our signal bntern, and judged that we wa: frc and saf' once more. ] lmdn't had a bit' to eat since yesterday ; :o Jim. hl' got out ~ me corn-clodgcr: tmll bntter-1nilk, and pork antl cabhage, and gr ens-ther ain't nothing jn the \VOrld so goocl, when it' · cook d right- ancl whit t I eat 1ny upp 'l' \VC talk )d, and had a good time. I wa~ powerful gbd to get away from the feuds, and o was Jim to get away from the s\Va.mp. " '' said therl' warn·t no ho1nc lik a raft, after all. Oth \r p1ncc's do ~ccn1 o cramped up and Rmothcry, but a raft don't. t on feel mighty free n.nd ca~y alH.1 co1nfortablc on a raft. -- ~ ~-- - ___·r wo or thr c dny- nnd njaht ... w nt by ; I --- ' . , . , I 1 ' ' . • I ·, ./ f '"' ...... ~ ~ ( ! I I I ,; ' I I / ,., llTOIXG DAY-TDIC.' r kon I nljob ·ht • ('"l' ,y t1l y ,'\VUln by, they slid along o quiet and : Jnoot h ancllov ly. 1 r rr is th way w pnt in t 11 .. ti1n . It ".as a Jnon t r us big nv \r down thcr - s rnctinHi. a IHil and a half wi(l ; w rull night , and laid up and hi<l day-ti1ne. ·; ,'O 11 a nj o-ht wa'"' n1o ·t g 110 '" ·topped navigating a11(I ti d up-nearly alwny in th dead water und r a en t _roun g cotton-w ooil, l . tow-h e:Hl ; a ncl • II en 'l'h n w . t out tl 1. alH Willows and hid t.h raft with th m. . l Ines. N xt we ·r d . J 1 . a \'r'un so as to f· 1 . 1 1Titi) t 1 nver and had I ' c. 1 e ten up and cool ff. t 1 ( t lC andy bottom wher l , o ' l n WP : t down on c t 1e ""ater was about knc -deep, and N |