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By-and-by she come along, and she drifted in so close that they could

a run out a plank and walked ashore. Most everybody was on the boat.

Pap, and Judge Thatcher, and Bessie Thatcher, and Joe Harper, and Tom

Sawyer, and his old Aunt Polly, and Sid and Mary, and plenty more. Every-

body was talking about the murder, but the captain broke in and says:

"Look sharp, now; the current sets in the closest here, and maybe he's

washed ashore and got tangled amongst the brush at the water's edge. I hope so,

anyway." ssssssssss

I didn't hope so. They all crowded up and leaned over the rails, nearly in

my face, and kept still, watching with all their might. I could see them first-

rate, but they couldn't see ssssssssss

me. Then the captain sung ssssssssss

out:

"Stand away!" and the

cannon let off such a blast ssssssssss

right before me that it made ssssssssss

me deef with the noise and ssssssssss

pretty near blind with the ssssssssss

smoke, and I judged I was ssssssssss

gone. If they'd a had some ssssssssss

bullets in, I reckon they'd a ssssssssss

got the corpse they was after. ssssssssss

Well, I see I warn't hurt, ssssssssss

thanks to goodness. The boat ssssssssss

floated on and went out of sight ssssssssss

around the shoulder of the isl- ssssssssss

and. I could hear the boom- ssssssssss

ing, now and then, further and ssssssssss

further off, and by-and-by after ssssssssss

an hour, I didn't hear it no ssssssssss

more. The island was three ssssssssss

mile long. I judged they had ssssssssss

got to the foot, and was giving it up. But they didn't yet a while. They turned

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