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Chapter XIX

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Two or three days and nights went by; ssssssssss

I reckon I might say they swum by, ssssssssss

they slid along so quiet and smooth ssssssssss

and lovely. Here is the way we put ssssssssss

in the time. It was a monstrous big ssssssssss

river down there -- sometimes a mile ssssssssss

and a half wide; we run nights, and ssssssssss

laid up and hid day-times; soon as ssssssssss

night was most gone, we stopped ssssssssss

navigating and tied up -- nearly al- ssssssssss

ways in the dead water under a tow- ssssssssss

head; and then cut young cotton- ssssssssss

woods and willows and hid the raft ssssssssss

with them. Then we set out the ssssssssss

lines. Next we slid into the river ssssssssss

and had a swim, so as to freshen up ssssssssss

and cool off; then we set down on ssssssssss

the sandy bottom where the water ssssssssss

was about knee deep, and watched the daylight come. Not a sound, anywheres

-- perfectly still -- just like the whole world was asleep, only sometimes the

bull-frogs a-cluttering, maybe. The first thing to see, looking away over the

water, was a kind of dull line -- that was the woods on t'other side -- you couldn't

make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness,

spreading around; then the river softened up, away off, and warn't black

any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along, ever so far

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