Part 34 (2/2)

Then I struck up the road, and when I passed the n on it, ”Phelps's Sawmill,” and when I come to the far, I kept h it was good daylight now But I didn't mind, because I didn't want to see nobody just yet?I only wanted to get the lay of the land According to e, not froht for town Well, the very firstup a bill for the Royal Nonesuch?three-night performance?like that other tiht on him before I could shi+rk He looked astonished, and says:

”Hel-_lo_! Where'd _you_ coer, ”Where's the raft??got her in a good place?”

I says:

”Why, that's just what I was going to ask your grace”

Then he didn't look so joyful, and says:

”What was your idea for asking _ in that doggery yesterday I says to et hi around town to put in the time and wait A man up and offered me ten cents to help him pull a skiff over the river and back to fetch a sheep, and so I went along; but as dragging him to the boat, and the man left , he was too strong for me and jerked loose and run, and we after hi, and so we had to chase hiot him till dark; then we fetched hiot there and see it was gone, I says to ot into trouble and had to leave; and they've took ot in the world, and now I'ot no property no ;' so I set down and cried I slept in the woods all night But what _did_ become of the raft, then??and Jim?poor Jim!”

”Blamed if I know?that is, what's becoot forty dollars, and e found hiery the loafers had ot every cent but what he'd spent for whisky; and when I got hione, we said, 'That little rascal has stole our raft and shook us, and run off down the river'”

”I wouldn't shake er I had in the world, and the only property”

”We never thought of that Fact is, I reckon we'd coer; yes, we did consider hih for hione and we flat broke, there warn't anything for it but to try the Royal Nonesuch another shake And I've pegged along ever since, dry as a powder-horn Where's that ten cents? Give it here”

I had considerable ed hiive me some, because it was all theto eat since yesterday He never said nothing The next minute he whirls on er would blow on us? We'd skin him if he done that!”

”How can he blow? Hain't he run off?”

”No! That old fool sold hione”

”_Sold_ hier, and that was er”

”Well, you can't _get_ your nigger, that's all?so dry up your blubbering Looky here?do you think _you'd_ venture to blow on us?

Blamed if I think I'd trust you Why, if you _was_ to blow on us?”

He stopped, but I never see the duke look so ugly out of his eyes before I went on a-whi, and says:

”I don't want to blow on nobody; and I ain't got no tier”

He looked kinder bothered, and stood there with his bills fluttering on his ar up his forehead At last he says:

”I'll tell you soot to be here three days If you'll proer blow, I'll tell you where to find him”

So I promised, and he says:

”A farmer by the name of Silas Ph?” and then he stopped You see, he started to tell un to study and think again, I reckoned he was changing his mind And so he was He wouldn't trustme out of the way the whole three days So pretty soon he says:

”The ht him is named Abram Foster?Abram G Foster?and he lives forty mile back here in the country, on the road to Lafayette”