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Show 3 4 Till~ .AlJ rB ..Y. TURES OJ<, IIUCJ{LL'JJERRl~ ]f'Jlt. . ~Y. but Uncle Sila:-i h hail a noble bras: \varming-pan \vhich he thought considerable of, b can. it beloncred to one of hi anc tor: \Vith a loner \roodcn handle that co1nc over frmn Encrland \rith ,,~illi<un the Conqueror in the lJfayjfu?oeJ· or one of ;h m early ship. and was hid away up garreL \Vith a lot of oth r ohl poL· and things that was valuable, not on account of being any account because they ,,·axn 't, but on account of 1 hem being relict ·, you know, and we snaked her out, privat c, and took her down th erE, but she fail ed on the fir. t pies, bccau 'e we didn't know how, but she come up s1niling on the last one. \Y e took ancl lined her with dough, and set her in the coal ', and loaded her up with rag-rope, and put on a dough roof, and , hut do,rn the lid, and put hot e1nbers on top, and sto?cl off five foot, ,vith the long handle, cool and comfortable, and in fifteen n1inutes she turned out a pie that. \vas a satisfaction to look at. 13ut the person that et it ,,·ould want to f~i ch a couple of kag · of toothpicks along, for if that rop -ladder ·wouldn't cnunp hi1n clo\Yn to busine.:s, I don't know not bing what I'1n talking about, and lay him in enough . tomach-ache to la t hitn till next tirne, too. Nat didn'i look, 'Yhcn we put the " ·itch-pi in Jirn's pan; and \Ve llUt the three tin plates in the bot torn of the pan under the vittl s; and :o Jim got cv rything all right, and. as soon as he wa. by hirnself he bu ted into the pi and hid the ropeladder in. ide of his ~ traw tick, and .. cratched some rnarks on a tin plate ancl t hrowed it out of the \\·inclow-hole. Cl }1JJJ'l9 thcrn pens wa.' a I <li~trc:-;si<l- tough job, and o wa · t h , ·a w ; and .J inl allowed the in.'cription was going to be the tonghe,'t of all. That', the on I which the pri~on8r has to :ern bblc on the wall. But we had to ----.__ ____ \ h:1 \.(, it ; T01n said W<' 'cl ,r;ot to : there warn 't no case of a state pri. ·oncr not ~crabbling his in cript ion to leave behind, a~Hl his coat of arms. " Look at Lady t);tn e Grey," h(' says; JIM'S CO.\ T OF AlUJ:;. '·look at Uilforcl Duu-ley ; look at old Korthumberland! , , ... hy, Huck, . 'po ~ e it i · con iuerbl, trouble?what you going to do ?-how yon going t g :lt around it? Jim's r;ot to do his inscrip tion and coat of ~nn1. . Th 0y all do:' cc |