1 I went up to my room with a piece of candle, and put it on the table.
2 Stick a candle in your pocket; I can't rest, Jim, till we give her a rummaging.
3 But I see I couldn't do nothing without a candle, and I dasn't light one, of course.
4 Then he stood about five minutes, picking tallow-drip off of his candle and thinking.
5 There was a woman about forty year old in there knitting by a candle that was on a pine table.
6 We put out the camp fire at the cavern the first thing, and didn't show a candle outside after that.
7 The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.
8 So these two frauds said they'd go and fetch it up, and have everything square and above-board; and told me to come with a candle.
9 Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up.
10 At last I got so sleepy I couldn't keep my eyes open all I could do, and so before I knowed what I was about I was sound asleep, and the candle burnin.
11 If you get here before eleven put a candle in this window, and if I don't turn up wait till eleven, and then if I don't turn up it means I'm gone, and out of the way, and safe.
12 There was an old horse-blanket nailed against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the table, to keep the wind from blowing through the chinks and putting the candle out.
13 Then we heard steps on the stairs, and blowed out our light and hid; and here comes the old man, with a candle in one hand and a bundle of stuff in t'other, looking as absent-minded as year before last.
14 We crept in under Jim's bed and into the cabin, and pawed around and found the candle and lit it, and stood over Jim awhile, and found him looking hearty and healthy, and then we woke him up gentle and gradual.
15 While I was at it he asked me what my name was, but before I could tell him he started to tell me about a bluejay and a young rabbit he had catched in the woods day before yesterday, and he asked me where Moses was when the candle went out.
16 And twice I went down the rod away in the night, and slipped around front, and see her setting there by her candle in the window with her eyes towards the road and the tears in them; and I wished I could do something for her, but I couldn't, only to swear that I wouldn't never do nothing to grieve her any more.
17 Then Tom marked out them things on it with the nail, and set Jim to work on them, with the nail for a chisel and an iron bolt from the rubbage in the lean-to for a hammer, and told him to work till the rest of his candle quit on him, and then he could go to bed, and hide the grindstone under his straw tick and sleep on it.
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