1 The river went on raising and raising for ten or twelve days, till at last it was over the banks.
2 IT must a been close on to one o'clock when we got below the island at last, and the raft did seem to go mighty slow.
3 Well, I couldn't stay up there forever; so at last I got down, but I kept in the thick woods and on the lookout all the time.
4 Jim said we could take deck passage on a steamboat now, and the money would last us as far as we wanted to go in the free States.
5 Well, last I pulled out some of my hair, and blooded the axe good, and stuck it on the back side, and slung the axe in the corner.
6 But we don't want to be the laughing stock of this whole town, I reckon, and never hear the last of this thing as long as we live.
7 First I didn't know where I was; I thought I was dreaming; and when things began to come back to me they seemed to come up dim out of last week.
8 He got to hanging around the widow's too much and so she told him at last that if he didn't quit using around there she would make trouble for him.
9 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.
10 But this time I found something at last; I found an old rusty wood-saw without any handle; it was laid in between a rafter and the clapboards of the roof.
11 Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin for him and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him.
12 So I got all my traps into my canoe again so as to have them out of sight, and I put out the fire and scattered the ashes around to look like an old last year's camp, and then clumb a tree.
13 It said he run away from St. Jacques' plantation, forty mile below New Orleans, last winter, and likely went north, and whoever would catch him and send him back he could have the reward and expenses.
14 He hopped around the cabin considerable, first on one leg and then on the other, holding first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left foot all of a sudden and fetched the tub a rattling kick.
15 My great-grandfather, eldest son of the Duke of Bridgewater, fled to this country about the end of the last century, to breathe the pure air of freedom; married here, and died, leaving a son, his own father dying about the same time.
16 We went gliding swift along, dead silent, past the tip of the paddle-box, and past the stern; then in a second or two more we was a hundred yards below the wreck, and the darkness soaked her up, every last sign of her, and we was safe, and knowed it.
17 And at last, sure enough, all the circus men could do, the horse broke loose, and away he went like the very nation, round and round the ring, with that sot laying down on him and hanging to his neck, with first one leg hanging most to the ground on one side, and then t'other one on t'other side, and the people just crazy.
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