1 I said Jim might wake up and come.
2 It itched till the tears come into my eyes.
3 It was funny they hadn't come in, after standing around so.
4 The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time.
5 Then Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it.
6 And when they come to look at that spare room they had to take soundings before they could navigate it.
7 I got rid of the signs of my work, and dropped the blanket and hid my saw, and pretty soon pap come in.
8 He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.
9 They had come up from the quarry and stood around the stile a while, and then went on around the garden fence.
10 Niggers would come miles to hear Jim tell about it, and he was more looked up to than any nigger in that country.
11 Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book.
12 Niggers would come from all around there and give Jim anything they had, just for a sight of that five-center piece; but they wouldn't touch it, because the devil had had his hands on it.
13 He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me.
14 I got an old tin lamp and an iron ring, and went out in the woods and rubbed and rubbed till I sweat like an Injun, calculating to build a palace and sell it; but it warn't no use, none of the genies come.
15 Why, they rub an old tin lamp or an iron ring, and then the genies come tearing in, with the thunder and lightning a-ripping around and the smoke a-rolling, and everything they're told to do they up and do it.
16 When he had got out on the shed he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn't drop that.
17 The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man; so he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he'd druther not take a child away from its father.
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