1 I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together.
2 When he had got it pretty good him and the duke begun to practice it together.
3 I took after it; but when I got to it it warn't nothing but a couple of sawlogs made fast together.
4 The cavern was as big as two or three rooms bunched together, and Jim could stand up straight in it.
5 Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together.
6 So she dropped the lump into my lap just at that moment, and I clapped my legs together on it and she went on talking.
7 They swarmed up in front of Sherburn's palings as thick as they could jam together, and you couldn't hear yourself think for the noise.
8 And at last they took a change and begun to lay their heads together in the wigwam and talk low and confidential two or three hours at a time.
9 And, mind you, when a girl tries to catch anything in her lap she throws her knees apart; she don't clap them together, the way you did when you catched the lump of lead.
10 They agreed to get together and fix a day as soon as they could, and then we elected Tom Sawyer first captain and Jo Harper second captain of the Gang, and so started home.
11 I'll stuff Jim's clothes full of straw and lay it on his bed to represent his mother in disguise, and Jim 'll take the nigger woman's gown off of me and wear it, and we'll all evade together.'
12 So then we laid in with Jim the second night, and tore up the sheet all in little strings and twisted them together, and long before daylight we had a lovely rope that you could a hung a person with.