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Show TilE ADVE~"TURES OF IIUCKLEBERRY FIJ{J:\1• "No, we cli(ln't. ''r neyer seen any 1nark at all.'' ''Tell, eYerybody 'Was in a state of mind now; and tbcy .. in<', 01.1 t : "The whol bilin' of'1n s frauds! Le's duck 'em! le\, drown 'em ! le's ride 'em on a rail! " and eYerybody was 'vhooping at "GE~TLEMEN- GENTLEMEN!. ?nee, and there was a rattling pow-wow. But the lawyer l1e JUmps on the table and yells, and says: . "Gentlem~n-gentlemen! Hear me just a word- j usL a 8 ~ngle word-If you PLEASE ! There's one way yet-let's cro and dig up the corpse and look." b That took them. JJIOGI!t~O FP TilE CORPSE. no., t) "}(ooray ! " th y all .·hout ~cl, and wa. ·buting right off ; but the lawyer and the c1 ctor sung out : " II old on, hold on ! Collar all the e four m n and th boy, a1Hl fetch them along, to ! '' "'Ye 11 do it ! ' they all honL d: "an<l if we don't fincl t11em mark \Y 'll lynch th whole gang! " I 1vns scared, now, I t ll you. But there \varn 't no geU ing awny, you know. They gripped u all, and 1narchcd us right a loner, .·traight for thr grnv yard, which wns a mil and a half do,vn the ri,·er, and the wh l} town at our h~els, for we n1ade noi~e enough, and it wa only nine in the v ning. A, w w· nt hy our h use I ·wi. h d I hadn'L cnt :\Iary Jan nut of town ; bee an. r no"· if I cculcl tip h r t h ~ wink, h ~ \l ]i(rht out an(l sav 1nc, and blow on our cl~ad-b "'at . b 'y 11, we wannccl a. long d wn t h river road, ju t carrying on like ,vild-cat ; <UHl io 1nakr it 1nor scary, th .-ky was (larking up, and th lightning b ginning to wink and fliU r, ancl the \Yind to .-hiYcr <Unong.'i th ] aye . Thi wa th mo.-L awful trouble and 1nost danger ·om I vcr wa in ; ancl I wa.k ind<'r .-tunn d ; cv ryt hing wa going o difD r nt from what I hnd allowed for; . teacl of b ing fixed o I could take 1ny own i in1c, if I wanted to, and s all the fun, and have l\Iary Jane nL 1ny back to save 1n a1Hl t 1ne free wh n the clo e-fii eornr, h r ,,·as nothing in the world betwixt 1n ancl udd n death but just th m tattoo-mark . If th y didn't tin l th In- I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, 01n how, I couldn t think about nothing elH . It got dark r and dark 'r, and it was a beautiful time io give the crowd the lip; but that big hu ·ky ha l me by the wrist-Hines--and a bo ly might a. \Yell try to give Goliar the slip. lie dragg d 1ne right along, he wa, so excited ; and I had to run to k ep up. 'Yhen they got th r they swarmed into the graveyard and washed over it like an oyerflo\Y. And when they got to th X |