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Show TIIE -1DrE.. Y. TURES 01? IIUCKLEBERRY FI. .V. J.~ i h ing, and we couldn't R 1n to do nothing right ; he folUHl fault with ey ry little thing. ~oinetlting wa a-br wing ."Un·. f wa g ocl and glad when 1uidday corne and no king; w tould haxe a change, anyway- and nwyb<.~ a chanc ~ for the dwn ae, on t op of it. Ro 1ue aud tb \ duk w nt up to the villag ', ,~ui hunt d around th re for the king, and by-and-by we found hi1 u in the back ro In of a little low dogg ry, very tight, and a lot of loafers bullyragging hi1n for . port, and he a cu . ing and threatening with all his 1night, and .·o tight he couldn't walk, ancl couldn't do nothing to th n1. The duke he begun to abu~<' hi1n for nn old fool, and the king begnn to a back; an<.l t lw 1ninute they \Va fairly at it, I lit out, ancl h ok the repf~ ont of 1ny hind leg·, and ·pun down the river r ad like a d cr- for I ~e our chance ; and I 1uade up 1ny mind that it would he a long day b fore they ver see Inc and Ji1n again. I got <lowu there all out of br at h but loaded up with joy, and ung out-. "Set h r loo~e, Ji1n, we're all right, now ! " But there 'Yaru't no answer, and nobo(1y come out of tlw wigwam. Ji1n \vas gon ! I set up a .. :hout-and th n anotlt ~r - and then another one; and run thi.· way and that in the wood~, whooping and scn~eching; but it \varn't no use-old Jint wa gone. Th n I set down and cried; I couldn't h elp it. Hut I couldn,t set till long. Pretty so n I w nt out on the road t ryin.g to think what I better do, and I run across a bo; walking, and a ked him if he ·d seen a .. trangc nigger, dr<' ~ed ."0 and o, and he ay : "Yes." "'Vher 'bouts?" says I. "Down to ~ilas Phelps' place, two 1nile below here. If :~ a runaway nigger, and they've got hin1. \Yas you looking for him?" " Yo u be t I a1. n 't· I run aero . h1·m I·l l the woods about a11 hour or two ago, and he said if I hollered he'd cut my liYers ont .JIJJ-1 GONE I .H7 -a1Hl told me to lay <.l wn and stay wh rc I was ; ancl I clone it. Been there ever c;.:ince ; afeard to co1ne out." "'Yell,' he ays, "you ne dn't be af anl no more, b cuz 1 hcy'y got him. lie run off f'm down outh, , 1n ,er"." .t•. . ,......_._. / - ~ -= - ....7 ) " WHO NAILED JlllVI. '' "rr ' a good j ob th0.y got him." "'Veil, I 'recl.·on! There' ... two hund rd dollar rewanl on J1 in1. It's like picking up 1noney out'n the road." "1· es, it i -and I could a had it if I'd been big enough ; I ee hi1n ji1·st. "\\Tho nailed hi1n? " |