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After supper pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there for

two drunks and one delirium ssssssssss

tremens. That was ssssssssss

his word. I judged he would ssssssssss

be blind drunk in about an ssssssssss

hour, and then I would steal ssssssssss

the key, or saw myself out, ssssssssss

one or 'tother. He drank, and ssssssssss

drank, and tumbled down on ssssssssss

his blankets, by-and-by; but ssssssssss

luck didn't run my way. He ssssssssss

didn't go sound asleep, but ssssssssss

was uneasy. He groaned, and ssssssssss

moaned, and thrashed around ssssssssss

this way and that, for a long ssssssssss

time. At last I got so sleepy ssssssssss

I couldn't keep my eyes open, ssssssssss

all I could do, and so before ssssssssss

I knowed what I was about ssssssssss

I was sound asleep, and the ssssssssss

candle burning. ssssssssss

I don't know how long I was asleep, but all of a sudden there was an

awful scream and I was up. There was pap, looking wild and skipping

around every which way and yelling about snakes. He said they was crawl-

ing up his legs; and then he would give a jump and scream, and say one

had bit him on the cheek -- but I couldn't see no snakes. He started and

rim round and round the cabin, hollering "take him off! take him off!

he's biting me on the neck!" I never see a man look so wild in the eyes.

Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled

over and over, wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking

and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming, and saying there was

devils ahold of him. He wore out, by-and-by, and laid still a while,

moaning. Then he laid stiller, and didn't make a sound, I could hear

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