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clear away amongst the bushes; for I warn't going to let Jim find out it was

all my fault, not if I could help it. ssssssssss

Jim sucked and sucked at the jug, and now and then he got out of his

head and pitched around and yelled; but every time he come to himself he went to

sucking at the jug again. His foot swelled up pretty big, and so did his leg;

but by-and-by the drunk begun to come, and so I judged he was all right; but

I'd druther been bit with a snake than pap's whisky.

Jim was laid up for four days and nights. Then the swelling was all gone and

he was around again. I made up my mind I wouldn't ever take aholt of a

snake-skin again with my hands, ssssssssss

now that I see what had come of ssssssssss

it. Jim said he reckoned I would ssssssssss

believe him next time. And he ssssssssss

said that handling a snake-skin was ssssssssss

such awful bad luck that maybe ssssssssss

we hadn't got to the end of it yet. ssssssssss

He said he druther see the new ssssssssss

moon over his left shoulder as much ssssssssss

as a thousand times than take up a ssssssssss

snake-skin in his hand. Well, I ssssssssss

was getting to feel that way myself, ssssssssss

though I've always reckoned that ssssssssss

looking at the new moon over your ssssssssss

left shoulder is one of the carelessest ssssssssss

and foolishest things a body can do. ssssssssss

Old Hank Bunker done it once, and ssssssssss

bragged about it; and in less than ssssssssss

two years he got drunk and fell off ssssssssss

of the shot tower and spread himself ssssssssss

out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him

edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but

I didn't see it. Pap told me. But anyway, it all come of looking at the moon

that way, like a fool. ssssssssss

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