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Show 0 1 I ~J- \ .top again at any town, for clay and dnys; k pi. right along· down i.hc river. \\"e w;t.· down . ont.h in t.hr warm weath r, n ow, ttlHl a lnighty long way;-{ front hmn(' · \\r e be ann to b cotne to tree · ''it h I ' f-;pani.-h 1110. s n ilH'm ' hanging down frorn the li1nbs like Ion o- oTay h h . beard ·. It '\vast he fir~t ) \eN,!, '<··~~~~ I eYl r ec it growing·, ;_· I rf·f . ~JH!l6i!m and it lnade the \\ oods \ • I ' 1 1-- . ; 1 r; p·: look sol 1nn and di. 1nn l. 'r i 1 ~ l 11 '• - ,; no\v t 1e fra nd: t; PA:\ IHII .M()S' · 1· ec )( One d the,y wa · out of danacr nnd they hegun to '\Vork the villao- s aaain F. t l b b • Ir t. 1cy donr a l cture on t. 1nperance ; but they dicln'L l~akc enough forth Jn both to gr-t drunk on. Then in an other vlllage they ·tart ed a dancing chool ; but th y didn't know no 1nore how to dane 1h an •) k , . 1 1 c o.. angcu oo < o s ; o t 1e fir 't prane(' they Ina<.le, t hr- g neral public jumped in and prancrd the1n ouL 1")1~ t) !) of town. Anoth r t in1 th y t ried a go ai y 'llocuti n ; but they didn't yellocut long till th audi nc goL up and giv th 1n a s lid good cu sing and 1na l th m kip out . They ta · klr< l n1i. ionarying, and Jn }:1neri 'Cring, and clo taring, and 1 1ling fortun :, and a little of verything ; but th y couldn't 'C'ein to have no luck. So at la. t they got jusL about d 'ad broke, and laid around the raft, a ·h floated along, ihiukjng, an<l i hin king, and nev r aying nothing, by the half a day nL a tinH'- HlHl <lrcaclfnl blue and d ~pcrat.c . An(l at la. t they took a <.;han err, an l begun to Jay thc,ir h ads together in the wio·wa1n aiHl talk low and. confid ntial two or three hour at a titn . · Jirn and 1n' got un a.y. \\rc di<hr ·L like th look of it. \\r e juclgccl they was .-tudying up sonu~ kind of worse deviltry t han <'ver. \r(' 1 urn tl it over ancl v r, an<l at la. t we rnaclc up onr Inintls ihcy wa: going to br 'ak int ~o1n ·body · hou: or .-torP, or '\Ya~· going into i. he count rf<'it lllOllCY bu ·inCt-iS, 01' , OJll 'thing. ~ then W "\YaS pretty ~car-c<l, and mad up an ngrc('lncnt that w ' wonhln't have nothing in the world to do with sne;h actions, an<l if "\Ve v 'r got th l asL show w \vou]<l giv t h m the cold shake, nncl ·1 n.r out HIHl 1 ave th 1n b hind. \Yell, early on 1nornina we hid the raft in a good. afe place about two 1nilc bclo\v a li Ltl' hit of a habby village, nam l Pike.· ille, and th king h wenL a.·hor , and told us all to i ay hid \vh il. ·t he vrcn t np to town ancl .'Inc lt ar uncl to if anybody had got any wind oft he l{oyal X OIH',' uch th re y t . (" l[ u~e to rob, you rnea11 ," say I i.o Jl1.Y.' '1f ; "and \vhen you g t t hrough robbing it you·n co1ne hack her and wond(ll' what'. be ·om of Jn and J in1 and the raft-and yon·ll ha:v to tak it out in \vonde ring .") A11d h .·aid if h warn·L back by midday, th duke an(l 1ne \vonlcl know it wa. all right, and wr wa.· to com along. ~o w .'taid whc'r .. "\Ye was. The duke h 'fr tt d ancl wcat<'(l around, an.cl \Yas in a 1nicrhty sour "\\-ay. l[ cold 'cl u.' for \·ery- |
