1 I wished I was out of that tree, but I dasn't come down.
2 They got half way to the tree I was in before the men noticed.
3 I stayed in the tree till it begun to get dark, afraid to come down.
4 He didn't know what to make of my voice coming out of the tree at first.
5 But by and by, sure enough, I catched a glimpse of fire away through the trees.
6 When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun.
7 He leaned his back up against a tree, and stretched his legs out till one of them most touched one of mine.
8 I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in there amongst them.
9 Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in among the trees, and, sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me.
10 There was a wood-rank four foot high a little ways in front of the tree, and first I was going to hide behind that; but maybe it was luckier I didn't.
11 WE went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.
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 Afterwards Jim said the witches be witched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it.
14 They gained on the boys, but it didn't do no good, the boys had too good a start; they got to the woodpile that was in front of my tree, and slipped in behind it, and so they had the bulge on the men again.
15 When I got down out of the tree I crept along down the river bank a piece, and found the two bodies laying in the edge of the water, and tugged at them till I got them ashore; then I covered up their faces, and got away as quick as I could.
16 Sometimes he smiled, and it was good to see; but when he straightened himself up like a liberty-pole, and the lightning begun to flicker out from under his eyebrows, you wanted to climb a tree first, and find out what the matter was afterwards.
17 Children was heeling it ahead of the mob, screaming and trying to get out of the way; and every window along the road was full of women's heads, and there was nigger boys in every tree, and bucks and wenches looking over every fence; and as soon as the mob would get nearly to them they would break and skaddle back out of reach.
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