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they come out wrong. Then she grabbed up the basket and slammed it across the

house and knocked the cat galley-west; and she said cle'r out and let her have

some peace, and if we come bothering ssssssssss

around her again betwixt that and ssssssssss

dinner, she'd skin us. So we had the ssssssssss

odd spoon; and dropped it in her ssssssssss

apron pocket whilst she was a giving us ssssssssss

our sailing-orders, and Jim got it all ssssssssss

right, along with her shingle-nail, be- ssssssssss

fore noon. We was very well satis- ssssssssss

fied with this business, and Tom al- ssssssssss

lowed it was worth twice the trouble ssssssssss

it took, because he said now she ssssssssss

couldn't ever count them spoons twice ssssssssss

alike again to save her life; and ssssssssss

wouldn't believe she'd counted them ssssssssss

right, if she did; and said that after ssssssssss

she'd about counted her head off, for ssssssssss

the next three days, he judged she'd ssssssssss

give it up and offer to kill anybody ssssssssss

that wanted her to ever count them any more.

So we put the sheet back on the line, that night, and stole one out of her

closet; and kept on putting it back and stealing it again, for a couple of days,

till she didn't know how many sheets she had, any more, and said she didn't

care, and warn't agoing to bullyrag the rest of her soul out about it, and wouldn't

count them again not to save her life, she druther die first.

So we was all right now, as to the shirt and the sheet and the spoon and the

candles, by the help of the calf and the rats and the mixed-up counting; and as

to the candlestick, it warn't no consequence, it would blow over by-and-by.

But that pie was a job; we had no end of trouble with that pie. We fixed it

up away down in the woods, and cooked it there; and we got it done at last, and

very satisfactory, too; but not all in one day; and we had to use up three wash-

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