Part 11 (2/2)

”Depends on the e go”

”Well, sah, she's wuth a quarter of a dollar a load at hoot as much as twenty loads, hain't we? How s, Mars Toht on de spot! Hit's more'n a dollar en a half apiece, hain't it?”

”Yes”

”Well, ef dat ain't makin' money de easiest ever I struck! She jes'

rained in--never cos' us a lick o' work Le'sand ciphering away so busy and excited he never heard him Pretty soon he says:

”Five dollars--sho! Look here, this sand's worth--worth--why, it's worth no end of o on!”

”Well, the enuwyne Desert of Sahara, they'll just be in a perfect state of it hold of some of it to keep on the what-not in a vial with a label on it for a curiosity All we got to do is to put it up in vials and float around all over the United States and peddle theot all of ten thousand dollars' worth of sand in this boat”

Me and Jiun to shout whoopja back and fetching sand, and co till we've carted this whole Desert over there and sold it out; and there ain't ever going to be any opposition, either, because we'll take out a patent”

”My goodness,” I says, ”we'll be as rich as Creosote, won't we, Tom?”

”Yes--Creesus, youin that little hill for the treasures of the earth, and didn't knoalking over the real ones for a thousand miles He was blinder than he wyne to be worth?”

”Well, I don't know yet It's got to be ciphered, and it ain't the easiest job to do, either, because it's over four million square miles of sand at ten cents a vial”

Jim ful excited, but this faded it out considerable, and he shook his head and says:

”Mars To couldn't We better not try to take de whole Desert, Mars Towyne to bust us, sho'”

Tom's excitement died out, too, now, and I reckoned it was on account of the vials, but it wasn't He set there thinking, and got bluer and bluer, and at last he says:

”Boys, it won't work; we got to give it up”

”Why, Tom?”

”On account of the duties”

I couldn'tout of that, neither could Jim I says:

”What IS our duty, Toit around it, why can't we just DO it? People often has to”