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Chapter XV

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We judged that three nights more would ssssssssss

fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of ssssssssss

Illinois, where the Ohio River conies ssssssssss

in, and that was what we was after. ssssssssss

We would sell the raft and get on a ssssssssss

steamboat and go way up the Ohio ssssssssss

amongst the free States, and then be ssssssssss

out of trouble. ssssssssss

Well, the second night a fog be-

gun to come on, and we made for a ssssssssss

tow-head to tie to, for it wouldn't ssssssssss

do to try to run in fog; but when I ssssssssss

paddled ahead in the canoe, with the ssssssssss

line, to make fast, there warn't any- ssssssssss

thing but little saplings to tie to. ssssssssss

I passed the line around one of them ssssssssss

right on the edge of the cut bank, ssssssssss

but there was a stiff current, and the ssssssssss

raft come booming down so lively she tore it out by the roots and away she

went. I see the fog closing down, and it made me so sick and scared I

couldn't budge for most a half a minute it seemed to me -- and then there

warn't no raft in sight; you couldn't see twenty yards. I jumped into the

canoe and run back to the stern and grabbed the paddle and set her back a

stroke. But she didn't come. I was in such a hurry I hadn't untied her.

I got up and tried to untie her, but I was so excited my hands shook so I

couldn't hardly do anything with them. ssssssssss

As soon as I got started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy, right

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