1 But by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I couldn't stand it.
2 I didn't want to go to school much before, but I reckoned I'd go now to spite pap.
3 So I knowed, then, that this warn't pap, but a woman dressed up in a man's clothes.
4 There was pap looking wild, and skipping around every which way and yelling about snakes.
5 I judged I would saw out and leave that night if pap got drunk enough, and I reckoned he would.
6 So I went to him that night and told him pap was here again, for I found his tracks in the snow.
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 Well, it was a good long job, but I was getting towards the end of it when I heard pap's gun in the woods.
9 I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t'other one out for what the rise might fetch along.
10 After supper pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there for two drunks and one delirium tremens.
11 Anybody but pap would a waited and seen the day through, so as to catch more stuff; but that warn't pap's style.
12 I had stopped cussing, because the widow didn't like it; but now I took to it again because pap hadn't no objections.
13 I slipped the ramrod down it to make sure it was loaded, then I laid it across the turnip barrel, pointing towards pap, and set down behind it to wait for him to stir.
14 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.
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 I borrowed three dollars from Judge Thatcher, and pap took it and got drunk, and went a-blowing around and cussing and whooping and carrying on; and he kept it up all over town, with a tin pan, till most midnight; then they jailed him, and next day they had him before court, and jailed him again for a week.
17 While we laid off after breakfast to sleep up, both of us being about wore out, I got to thinking that if I could fix up some way to keep pap and the widow from trying to follow me, it would be a certainer thing than trusting to luck to get far enough off before they missed me; you see, all kinds of things might happen.
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