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Show TilE AIJrE~TT[TRES OF IIUCiiLEBERRJ- 1!'1-Y. .V. . i he1n, and di en:-:;. about whether they was n1aclc or only just h:-qlprn d-Jim he allow d th y \Vas 1naclc, hut I allowed 1 hey happened; I judged it would have took too ]ong to nutke so Tnany .. li1n said the 1noon could a laicl the1n; w 11, that looked kind of reasonable, so I ditln't say nothing against it, becau e I've s en a. frog lay most as 1nany, so of onrse it. could be done. \Y us d to watch the star.' i hat fell, too, and sre thmn streak clown. J in1 allowed they'd got spoiled and wa hore out of the ne. t. <)nee or twice of a night 'Ye would . ee a . tea1nhoat :-;lipping 4llong in the dark, and now and th n . he wonl<l belch a \vho1e world of. parks np ont of her chimbleys, and th y 'Yould rain do\vn in the river and look awful pretty ; then :he would turn a corner an<l her light-s would wink out and her po\v-wow shut off and ]rave 1 hr river still again ; and by-and-by her wavt•s would get to u . , a long time aft r sh \va gone, an<l joggle the raft a hit, nn<l after that you 'Y0nldn·t hear nothing for yon couldn't t ell how long, xccpt maybe frogs or omcthing. After 1nidnight i he people on ·horc wrnt to h d, and then for i wo or thr e hours the shores was black- no 1nore ~parks in i hr cabin wintlows. These sparks was our clock-thr first one that showed again Incant 1norning wa.· co1ning, ,'O w h unted a place to hid and ti up, right nway. On morning about day-break, I found a cano and cro. sed over a chute to the 1nain sbor - it wa. only two hunclrecl yards - and pacldlrd about a mile up a crick cnnong:'t the cypre.~s wood ·, to sec if I roulJn't get some berrie. ·. Just a~ I was passing a place wherr a kind of cow-path crossed the critk, here comes a couple of men tearing up the path as tight a they could foot it. I thought I was a goner, for wh never anybody was after anybody I judged it was ?ne-or n1aybe Jin1. I was about to dig out from there in a hurry, but they wa. pretty close to me then, and sung out and begged me to save their lircs- "DOO A- ( 'O.l! I .YO." 1~1 !-;aiel they hadn't b Pn cloi ng not h inQ', and wn. hei11 cr t'1l" C\'l f . . · .... b <h \. OL ~t- :.n~ the:·e wa.· 1n n and log: a-eon1ing. Th<'y wanted to JtHnp nght 10, but f .·ay:- ' Do11 't you do il. I don't h nr th(· doer: (llH.l lwr. <' y·c·t . • . ll ' you \'C got tnn to erow<l through the bru~h and gd up tIt. ! . ,, I I [f:::; , I I I I 1- rfJi--~fl:- ~ "A~ J) DOG A- 'O .Ml~(; .. , \ criek a little way~ ; th n you tak to th l water anJ wad down to In and get in- that'll throw the clogs off th ~ · nl ." They done it, and soon a · they was aboard I lit out for our tow-head, and ju about fi \·e or ten minute · w h anl the dogs and t h men away off, ..:houting. "\t\r e h ar l them c01n al ncr 0 |