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Show pocket, if \VC got a chance ; ancl told hi1n \rhat they woul<l bP ancl what th y was for. And told hi1n how to keep a journa 1 on the hirL with hi bloo<l, and all that. lie told hi1n everything. .J in1 h c uldn·t see no .. ·e11. c in the n1ost of it, but he allowed w \V<1 ,vhite folk"' and know 'd 1J 't t r than hin1 ; so he w:ts satisfied, and said h \Yonld do it all jn 't a Tom said. Jj1n bad plenty corn-cob pip s and tobacco; o \Yc had a right down goocl sociable tim ; then we crawled out through the hol , and o hom to bed, with hand' thaL look c1 like th y'd b en chawed. To1n was in high spirit . He ·aiel it wn .· the best fun h ever had in hi lif , an l the rno t intcllecLural; and saicl if he only ould ·ee his way to it we would keep iL up all there t of our lives and leave Ji1n to our chil<lren to gtt out · for he bcli ved Jirn would con1e to like it b ·ttcr and bett'e r the n1ore he got used to it. Ile said that in that way iL could be strung out to a much as eighty year, antl would be the be t time on record. And he said iL \Yonl<l rnak us all celebrated that had a hand in it. In the morning we went out to the wood-pil(' an<l chopped up the bra s candlestick into handy izcs, and To1n put thmn and the pewter spoon in his pocket. Then we went to the nigger cabin~, and while I got Nat's notice off, To1n I hoved a piece of candle. tick into the midule of a corn-pone that wa in .Tim's pan, and we went along \vith Nat to ·cc how it would work, and it just work d noble ; \rhen Jirn bit into it it 1no t rna h d all hi· teeth out; and there warn't ever anyLhing could a \vorked better. Tom said o him. elf. Jim he never lcL on but what it was only just a piece of rock or oJncthing like that thaf · always getting into bread, you know ; but after that he neycr bit into nothing but '"·hat he jabbed his fork into it in t hrce or four place , first. And whil.t we \ra a standing th re in th di1n1ni ·h light, here comes a couple of the hound"" bulging in, from under Jim·~ 37a b d; nncl t1H'Y k rpL on piling in iill LlH'l'C was elcv 11 of thcin ~.n<l there \nlrn 't l1nrdly roo,1n in t her to g('t your brcat h. 1~; Jtngs, \VC £ rgot to fa.ten tlwt. lean-to door. 'J'h ni cr(rer N· L 1 . b Ll 1e only JU. t holl<'r ·<1 "wiich s! ., once an(l kcc'l <'d ovc'r on to 1\ /I I I ., I ,' - - ~- ·- ..... .._' 'J'O~f ADYL.. - E A WlTC if Pll·~. th floor atnongst~ the dogs, and begun to crroa1l lik he \vas dying. Ton1 jerk (l the door open an<l flung ~ut a I lab of Jim s meat, and the dogs \vent for it, and in two srconcl: he was out hi1nself ancl back ngain nncl ·h~t th door, and I kno\v cl he \l fixecl the other door too. Th n he \V nt to work on the nigg r, |
