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Chapter VIII

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The sun was up so high when I waked, ssssssssss

that I judged it was after eight o'clock. ssssssssss

I laid there in the grass and the cool ssssssssss

shade, thinking about things and feeling ssssssssss

rested and ruther comfortable and satis- ssssssssss

fied. I could see the sun out at one or ssssssssss

two holes, but mostly it was big trees ssssssssss

all about, and gloomy in there amongst ssssssssss

them. There was freckled places on ssssssssss

the ground where the light sifted down ssssssssss

through the leaves, and the freckled ssssssssss

places swapped about a little, showing ssssssssss

there was a little breeze up there. A ssssssssss

couple of squirrels set on a limb and ssssssssss

jabbered at me very friendly. ssssssssss

I was powerful lazy and comfortable -- ssssssssss

didn't want to get up and cook breakfast. Well, I was dozing off again,

when I thinks I hears a deep sound of "boom!" away up the river. I

rouses up and rests on my elbow and listens; pretty soon I hears it again.

I hopped up and went and looked out at a hole in the leaves, and I see

a bunch of smoke laying on the water a long ways up -- about abreast the

ferry. And there was the ferry-boat full of people, floating along down. I

knowed what was the matter, now. "Boom!" I see the white smoke

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