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Chapter XXXIX

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In the morning we went up to the village ssssssssss

and bought a wire rat trap and fetch- ssssssssss

ed it down, and unstopped the best rat ssssssssss

hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen ssssssssss

of the bulliest kind of ones; and then we ssssssssss

took it and put it in a safe place under ssssssssss

Aunt Sally's bed. But while we was gone ssssssssss

for spiders, little Thomas Franklin Ben- ssssssssss

jamin Jefferson Elexander Phelps found ssssssssss

it there, and opened the door of it to see

if the rats would come out, and they did; ssssssssss

and Aunt Sally she come in, and when we ssssssssss

got back she was a standing on top of the ssssssssss

bed raising Cain, and the rats was doing ssssssssss

what they could to keep off the dull times

for her. So she took and dusted us both ssssssssss

with the hickry, and we was as much as ssssssssss

two hours catching another fifteen or six-

teen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they ssssssssss

warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock. I

never see a likelier lot of rats than what that first haul was.

We got a splendid stock of sorted spiders, and bugs, and frogs, and cater-

pillars, and one thing or another; and we like-to got a hornet's nest, but we

didn't. The family was at home. We didn't give it right up, but staid with

them as long as we could; because we allowed we'd tire them out or they'd

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