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Show I ·I (/ <: ETTIXCT WOO D. ,,·oulcl b' 11)0~t an hour ~~ ' y t, till brcakfa:t :o we 1 ft, an< 1 ~t rut: k clown into th 'woods; b<'cau c Ton1 said \Y goi to ] ta vc ome light to cc' how to dig by, ancl n ]ant ern 1nak ~ i oo 1nnch, and might g<'t ns into trouble; what '' c 1nu t ha vc \Ya a lot of them rott n chunk~ that'., callc<l fox-fir and ju t 1nn.ke · n, , ·oft kind of a glow when . ·on lay i l1 em in a clark place. \\-.-e fetch cl nn annful and hid it in tl1c \r ed", and set down to rest, and Tom .. ays, kind of di sati. ·fi c1 : ' BL1111e il thi, \rholc thing i · ju 't~as ea. y a.ncl awknrcl a it can be. Ancl , o it 1nake , it so rotten difficult to g<'t up a difficult plan. There ain~t no watc1nnan to b chugged-now there ought t be a \vatchman. There ain't eYen a clog to give ESCAPI.L·"·{G PROPERLY: a slccping-1nixtnre to. And then.''· Ji1n ·l1ain cl by on le<Y h) with a t n-foot chain, to th' leg of hi· b d: \rl1y, all yon got to do is to lift np i h b d:L ad and lip off th ehain. An<l Uncl ~ Sila.· he tru i.· ev rybody; ncl. the k y to th punkinhcadecl ni<rgcr, and clon't send nobody to \Yatch the ni crger. Jim tonlcl a got out of that ·winclow hol ) b fore thi , nly t ltcr . wouldn'L b no use trying to trav l witlt a ten-foot cbain on hi:-; leg. \\"hy, drat it, Huck, it'.· th .-tnpid ':t arrangc1n nl I ever e. ·You got to inv nt all the difficuHic ·. \Y '11, w an't help it, W<' got to do the b .t \V can with the 1nat rials w ~·vc got. Anyhcnv, thcr 's on thing-th r · · 1nore l1ononr in geitinrr hirn out i hrongh a, lot of difficulties and lang rs, \rhere there warn't on of th In furni hed to you by the pC'ople ·who it \ra · i.. heir duty to furni h the1n, and you ha.d to eontriYe ilH'ln all out of your O\Vll head. row look at ju t that one thing of ih . lant rn. \Yh n you co1ne down to t h cold fact:, \V ·itnply got to let on that a lant rn' r ky. \\ ... hy, w e uhl work with a torchlight pr ce ion if w · \Vant d to, 1 b licv '. X ow, whilst I think of it, w rrot to hunt up otnetlting to 1nake a f-'aw out of, the first chan ·e w g t. ., '' \Vhat clo 'vc \Van t of a . aw? ., '·,, ... hat dow ~uant of iL? liain't we got to aw Lh \leo· f Ji1n~ b <l off, s a.· tog t th chain ]oo. e?' "\rhy, you jut aid a body coulcl lift up th becl·L,ad and slip the <.: hain off:' '·\\~ell, if that ain't jn t like you, J[nck F'inn. Yon ca1~ get up i.h infant-. ·chooli '.'t \vays of going nt a thing. \\ ... IJ_y, hain·t you <\ver read any b oks at all ?-Baron Tr nck, nor Ca:anova, nor B nvennto Chell eny, nor I [ nri I\r., n r n nP of them heroes? \Vho ver heard of gettina a pri~ oncr loo.-e in uch an ol<l-n1aicly \vay as that? No; th way nl1 ih be L authoriti , cloe ·, i.-. to a\v the bed-l g in two, and 1 'a'· it jtL'L ·o, an<l ·wallo\\- th "'awclust, ·o it can ~t b found, ancl put 111 |