Part 15 (1/1)

”Seven thousand miles, three hundred miles an hour--you can make the trip in a day--twenty-four hours This is Thursday; you'll be back here Saturday afternoon Cos forThere ain't no occasion to fool around--I want a smoke, and the quicker you fetch that pipe the better”

All hands jus was out and the balloon was ready for Aave his last orders:

”It's 10 minutes to 2 PM now, Mount Sinai time In 24 hours you'll be hoe tie, land a little back of the top of the hill, in the woods, out of sight; then you rush down, Jim, and shove these letters in the post-office, and if you see anybody stirring, pull your slouch down over your face so they won't know you Then you go and slip in the back way to the kitchen and git the pipe, and lay this piece of paper on the kitchen table, and put soit away, and don't let Aunt Polly catch a sight of you, nor nobody else Then you jump for the balloon and shove for Mount Sinai three hundred miles an hour You won't have lost more than an hour You'll start back at 7 or 8 AM, village ti at 2 or 3 PM, Mount Sinai time”

Tom he read the piece of paper to us He had wrote on it:

”THURSDAY AFTERNOON Tom Sawyer the Erro-nort sends his love to Aunt Polly from Mount Sinai where the Ark was, and so does Huck Finn, and she will get it to- half-past six”

[ Thisof the Ark is probably Huck's error, not Tom's--MT]

”That'll e out and the tears come,” he says Then he says:

”Stand by! One--two--three--away you go!”

And away she DID go! Why, she seeht in a second

Then we found aplain, and there we camped to wait for the pipe

The balloon co the pipe; but Aunt Polly had catched Jiuess what happened: she sent for Tom So Jim he says:

”Mars Tom, she's out on de porch wid her eye sot on de sky a-layin' for you, en she say she ain't gwyne to budge frowyne to be trouble, Mars Tom, 'deed dey is”

So then we shoved for hoay, neither

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