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Chapter XL

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We was feeling pretty good, after break- ssssssssss

fast, and took my canoe and went ssssssssss

over the river a fishing, with a lunch, ssssssssss

and had a good time, and took a look ssssssssss

at the raft and found her all right, ssssssssss

and got home late to supper, and ssssssssss

found them in such a sweat and ssssssssss

worry they didn't know which end ssssssssss

they was standing on, and made us ssssssssss

go right off to bed the minute we ssssssssss

was done supper, and wouldn't tell ssssssssss

us what the trouble was, and never ssssssssss

let on a word about the new letter, ssssssssss

but didn't need to, because we ssssssssss

knowed as much about it as any- ssssssssss

body did, and as soon as we was ssssssssss

half up stairs and her back was turned, we slid for the cellar cubboard and loaded

up a good lunch and took it up to our room and went to bed, and got up

about half-past eleven, and Tom put on Aunt Sally's dress that he stole and

was going to start with the lunch, but says:

"Where's the butter?"

"I laid out a hunk of it," I says, "on a piece of a corn-pone."

"Well, you left it laid out, then -- it ain't here."

"We can get along without it," I says.

"We can get along with it, too," he says; "just you slide down cellar and

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