Part 8 (2/2)

Jili, and says:

”She's dah ag'in, Mars Towine to die, 'case when a body sees a ghos' de third time, dat's what it means

I wisht I'd never come in dis balloon, dat I does”

He wouldn't look no more, and what he said made me afraid, too, because I knowed it was true, for that has always been the ith ghosts; so then I wouldn't look any o sonorant superstitious blatherskites Yes, and he'll git cohosts that way They'll stand it for a while, maybe, but they won't stand it always, for anybody that knows about ghosts kno easy they are hurt, and how revengeful they are

So as all quiet and still, Ji scared, and Tom busy By and by Toet up and look, you sapheads”

We done it, and there was the sure-enough water right under us!--clear, and blue, and cool, and deep, and ith the breeze, the loveliest sight that ever was And all about it was grassy banks, and flowers, and shady groves of big trees, looped together with vines, and all looking so peaceful and coh to make a body cry, it was so beautiful

Jim DID cry, and rip and dance and carry on, he was so thankful and out of his mind for joy It was my watch, so I had to stay by the works, but Tom and Jim clumb down and drunk a barrel apiece, and fetchedin un with that water

Then ent down and had a swim, and then Tom came up and spelled me, and me and Jim had a swim, and then Ji-ood time in my life It warn't so very hot, because it was close on to evening, and we hadn't any clothes on, anyway Clothes is well enough in school, and in towns, and at balls, too, but there ain't no sense in them when there ain't no civilization nor other kinds of bothers and fussiness around

”Lions a-comin'!--lions! Quick, Mars Tom! Jump for yo' life, Huck!”

Oh, and didn't we! We never stopped for clothes, but waltzed up the ladder just so Jiot excited and scared; and so now, 'stead of just easing the ladder up froround a little, so the animals couldn't reach it, he turned on a raft of power, and hizzing up and was dangling in the sky before he got his wits together and seen what a foolish thing he was doing Then he stopped her, but he had clean forgot what to do next; so there as, so high that the lions looked like pups, and as drifting off on the wind

But Toun to slant her down, and back toward the lake, where the anied he had lost HIS head, too; for he knowed I was too scared to clis?

But no, his head was level, he knohat he was about He swooped down to within thirty or forty feet of the lake, and stopped right over the center, and sung out:

”Leggo, and drop!”

I done it, and shot down, feet first, and seeo about a mile toward the bottom; and when I come up, he says:

”Now lay on your back and float till you're rested and got your pluck back, then I'll dip the ladder in the water and you can climb aboard”

I done it Now that was ever so smart in Tom, because if he had started off soerie would 'a'

co a safe place till I got tuckered out and fell

And all this ti out the clothes, and trying to divide them up so there would be so about it so more than their share; so there was another insurrection, and you never see anything like it in the world Thereand roaring and snapping and biting and tearing, legs and tails in the air, and you couldn't tell which hich, and the sand and fur a-flying And when they got done, so off crippled, and the rest was setting around on the battlefield, so up at us and see us to come down and have some fun, but which we didn't want any

As for the clothes, they warn't any, anyof the with them very well, I don't reckon, for there was considerable many brass buttons on the tobacco, and nails and chalk andAll that was botheringenough assorto into company with, if we ca as tunnels, and the coats and things according Still, there was everything a tailor needed, and Jied tailor, and he allowed he could soon trim a suit or tn for us that would answer

CHAPTER IX TOM DISCOURSES ON THE DESERT

STILL, we thought ould drop down there a o of food was put up in cans, in the neay that somebody had just invented; the rest was fresh When you fetch Missouri beefsteak to the Great Sahara, you want to be particular and stay up in the coolish weather So we reckoned ould drop down into the lion market and see hoe could make out there

We hauled in the ladder and dropped down till as just above the reach of the animals, then we let down a rope with a slip-knot in it and hauled up a dead lion, a ser