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Show TilE AIJVE~YTURES OF IIUCll.LEBERRY Fil.,-~r_ don·t care h w t bey get a thing 'O tb y get it, and nobody don ·L l)hune th 111 for it, ith r. It ain't no cri1ne in a priHon r to .--t cal th t hincr he n cd., to g \t away wiLh, T01n aid ; it'H his right; and :-o, a: lo11g a we wa.' r pr :cnting a prison er, w<~ - -· - -----·· - r.w:-lf,..lb I, 'J'll8 llREAKPA T-HOR~. ]J;H.l a per£ 'eL right to teal anything on this place w had the Jt'ast u:e for, to get o':lrsel ve, out of pri. 'On with. I Ie said if we warn·t pri oners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean ornery person \YouJcl .teal when he wnrn't DISCllllJt111'lATIO.lv IN STEAL IZ..;'O. 303. a pri. 'OU r. So we allowed we ·wonlcl steal ev 'ryt hi ng there was that cmne handy. And yet he 1nad a Jnighty fu. , on-. clay, aftrr that, \Yh n I stol a \Vai rme1on ou+- of the nigg \r patch and eat it; and h Jnad 111 g and gi VP t.he nigg r, a dime, without telling thc1n what it wa. for. Tom said that what he 1neant wa , we c uld . teal anything we needecl. \V ,11, I says, I needed t h e watennelon. But he ,'aitl l di<ln't ne cl i t. to get ont of prison with, there's \vher' the difTer en cP wa . l[c said if r<l a wanted i t to hide a knife in, HlHl SllHlbiTV'l<\ it to <. ....J Jitn to kill the sene kal with, it \voulcl a b ell all ri<Yht. ~ io I let it go at that, though I c uldn 't s 11 a<l vantage in 1ny repre nting a prison r, if I got to :ct down :tiHl elutw O\' r a lot of gold-leaf distinct ions lik that, ev ry titne I :-; a chance to hog a \vatennelon. \\r ell, a · I was ·aying, we \vaited that n1orning till e\rerybocly was settled down io business, and nobody in i crht ar uncl the yard; then Ton1 he carri 'd the sack into t h }pan-to whil.t I stood off a piece to k cp watch. By-an(l-hy h coin out, and we went and s t down on the wood-pil , to talk. I [e :ays : " Everything's all right, now, xccpt tool: ; and that's rt.·y fix d.'' " T o1 s ·.~ '' I says. " "T '\~ " ~ e .-,. " Tools for what ? " "'\\rhy, to dig wit h. \V e ain't agoing to ,r;ncl?.l hi1n out, are we?" "Ain't then1 old crippled picks and thing. in there good enough to dig a nigger out with?" I says. He turns on 1ne looking pitying enough 1 o mak a body cry, and. ays: "liuck }'inn, did you eve?~ h ar of a pri 'OlH'r having pick.; ancl . hov ls, and all the modern conveni n s in l1i.' wardrobe to dig hiln ·elf out with? No\v I want to a. k you-if you got |