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siderable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them

what's-his-name, when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing.

He said he would like to see the widow get me. He said he would watch

out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place

six or seven mile off, to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped

and they couldn't find me. That made me pretty uneasy again, but only for

a minute; I reckoned I wouldn't stay on hand till he got that chance.

The old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had

got. There was a fifty-pound sack of corn meal, and a side of bacon,

ammunition, and a four-gallon jug of whisky, and an old book and two

newspapers for wadding, besides some tow. I toted up a load, and went

back and set down on the bow of the skiff to rest. I thought it all over,

and I reckoned I would walk ssssssssss

off with the gun and some ssssssssss

lines, and take to the woods ssssssssss

when I run away. I guessed ssssssssss

I wouldn't stay in one place, ssssssssss

but just tramp right across the ssssssssss

country, mostly night times, ssssssssss

and hunt and fish to keep alive, ssssssssss

and so get so far away that ssssssssss

the old man nor the widow ssssssssss

couldn't ever find me any more. ssssssssss

I -judged I would saw out and ssssssssss

leave that night if pap got ssssssssss

drunk enough, and I reckoned ssssssssss

he would. I got so full of it ssssssssss

I didn't notice how long I ssssssssss

was staying, till the old man ssssssssss

hollered and asked me whether ssssssssss

I was asleep or drownded. ssssssssss

I got the things all up to the cabin, and then it was about dark.

While I was cooking supper the old man took a swig or two and got sort

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