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"Why, me and Sid, and -- and -- and the guns; that's what I mean."

"Oh," he says. ssssssssss

But he put his foot on the gunnel, and rocked her; and shook his head, and said

he reckoned he'd look around for a bigger one. But they was all locked and chained;

so he took my canoe, and said for me to wait till he come back, or I could hunt

around further, or maybe I better go down home and get them ready for the sur-

prise, if I wanted to. But I said I didn't; so I told him just how to find the

raft, and then he started. ssssssssss

I struck an idea, pretty soon, I says to myself, spos'n he can't fix that

leg just in three shakes of a ssssssssss

sheep's tail, as the saying is? ssssssssss

spos'n it takes him three or ssssssssss

four days? What are we going ssssssssss

to do? -- lay around there till ssssssssss

he lets the cat out of the ssssssssss

bag? No, sir, I know what I'll ssssssssss

do. I'll wait, and when he comes ssssssssss

back, if he says he's got to go ssssssssss

any more, I'll get down there, ssssssssss

too, if I swim; and we'll take ssssssssss

and tie him, and keep him, and ssssssssss

shove out down the river; and ssssssssss

when Tom's done with him, ssssssssss

we'll give him what it's worth, ssssssssss

or all we got, and then let him ssssssssss

get shore. ssssssssss

So then I crept into a lumber

pile to get some sleep; and next ssssssssss

time I waked up the sun was ssssssssss

away up over my head! I shot ssssssssss

out and went for the doctor's house, but they told me he'd gone away in the

night, some time or other, and warn't back yet. Well, thinks I, that looks

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