1 I knowed what was the matter now.
2 Lots of 'em heard me, and can tell what I said.'
3 He had a gun which he had stole, I reckon, and we fished and hunted, and that was what we lived on.
4 I changed to the Illinois edge of the island to see what luck I could have, and I warn't disappointed.
5 Then he dropped down and went to sleep again; but what he had been saying give me the very idea I wanted.
6 I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t'other one out for what the rise might fetch along.
7 He abused me a little for being so slow; but I told him I fell in the river, and that was what made me so long.
8 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.
9 I started out, after breakfast, feeling worried and shaky, and wondering where it was going to fall on me, and what it was going to be.
10 She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn't say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place.
11 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.
12 Tom Sawyer called the hogs "ingots," and he called the turnips and stuff "julery," and we would go to the cave and powwow over what we had done, and how many people we had killed and marked.
13 Here's what the law does: The law takes a man worth six thousand dollars and up'ards, and jams him into an old trap of a cabin like this, and lets him go round in clothes that ain't fitten for a hog.
14 I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow's if he wanted me, though I couldn't make out how he was a-going to be any better off then than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant, and so kind of low-down and ornery.
15 He never could go after even a turnip-cart but he must have the swords and guns all scoured up for it, though they was only lath and broomsticks, and you might scour at them till you rotted, and then they warn't worth a mouthful of ashes more than what they was before.
16 Jim always kept that five-center piece round his neck with a string, and said it was a charm the devil give to him with his own hands, and told him he could cure anybody with it and fetch witches whenever he wanted to just by saying something to it; but he never told what it was he said to it.
17 The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.
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