1 That pleased the old man till he couldn't rest.
2 De bes' way is to res' easy en let de ole man take his own way.
3 The old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had got.
4 When he got out the new judge said he was a-going to make a man of him.
5 I judged the old man would turn up again by and by, though I wished he wouldn't.
6 I knowed mighty well that a drownded man don't float on his back, but on his face.
7 So I knowed, then, that this warn't pap, but a woman dressed up in a man's clothes.
8 He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way.
9 The old man said that what a man wanted that was down was sympathy, and the judge said it was so; so they cried again.
10 I got so full of it I didn't notice how long I was staying till the old man hollered and asked me whether I was asleep or drownded.
11 There's a hand that was the hand of a hog; but it ain't so no more; it's the hand of a man that's started in on a new life, and'll die before he'll go back.
12 WELL, pretty soon the old man was up and around again, and then he went for Judge Thatcher in the courts to make him give up that money, and he went for me, too, for not stopping school.
13 The judge said he could hug him for them words; so he cried, and his wife she cried again; pap said he'd been a man that had always been misunderstood before, and the judge said he believed it.
14 I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more.
15 They judged it was him, anyway; said this drownded man was just his size, and was ragged, and had uncommon long hair, which was all like pap; but they couldn't make nothing out of the face, because it had been in the water so long it warn't much like a face at all.
16 And after supper he talked to him about temperance and such things till the old man cried, and said he'd been a fool, and fooled away his life; but now he was a-going to turn over a new leaf and be a man nobody wouldn't be ashamed of, and he hoped the judge would help him and not look down on him.
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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