Part 38 (1/2)

”For a dog”

”So 'd I Well, it wasn't for a dog”

”Why?”

”Because part of it atermelon”

”So it was?I noticed it Well, it does beat all that I never thought about a dog not eating watermelon It sho a body can see and don't see at the saer unlocked the padlock when he went in, and he locked it again when he caot up from table?same key, I bet Watermelon shows man, lock shows prisoner; and it ain't likely there's two prisoners on such a little plantation, and where the people's all so kind and good Jilad we found it out detective fashi+on; I wouldn't give shucks for any other way Now you work your mind, and study out a plan to steal Jim, and I will study out one, too; and we'll take the one we like the best”

What a head for just a boy to have! If I had Tom Sawyer's head I wouldn't trade it off to be a duke, norI can think of I went to thinking out a plan, but only just to be doing so to come from Pretty soon Toht?bring it out”

”My plan is this,” I says ”We can easy find out if it's Jiht, and fetch ht that cooes to bed, and shove off down the river on the raft with Jihts, the way me and Jim used to do before Wouldn't that plan work?”

”_Work_? Why, cert'nly it would work, like rats a-fighting But it's too blaood of a plan that ain't no oose-milk

Why, Huck, it wouldn'tinto a soap factory”

I never said nothing, because I warn't expecting nothing different; but I knowed ot _his_ plan ready it wouldn't have none of them objections to it

And it didn't He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it orth fifteen of mine for style, and would et us all killed besides So I was satisfied, and said ould waltz in on it I needn't tell what it was here, because I knowed it wouldn't stay the way, it was I knowed he would be changing it around every which way as ent along, and heaving in new bullinesses wherever he got a chance And that is what he done

Well, one thing was dead sure, and that was that To to help steal that nigger out of slavery

That was the thing that was too many forup; and had a character to lose; and folks at hoht and not leather-headed; and knowing and not ignorant; and not mean, but kind; and yet here he ithout any , than to stoop to this business, and make himself a shame, and his family a shame, before everybody I _couldn't_ understand it no way at all It was outrageous, and I knowed I ought to just up and tell hi right where he was and save himself And I _did_ start to tell him; but he shut me up, and says:

”Don't you reckon I knohat I'enerly knohat I' to help steal the nigger?”

”Yes”

”_Well_, then”

That's all he said, and that's all I said It warn't no use to say any , he always done it But I couldn't ; so I just let it go, and never bothered no more about it If he was bound to have it so, I couldn't help it

When we got home the house was all dark and still; so ent on down to the hut by the ash-hopper for to exah the yard so as to see what the hounds would do They knowed us, and didn'twhen anything coot to the cabin we took a look at the front and the two sides; and on the side I warn't acquainted hich was the north side?we found a square -hole, up tolerable high, with just one stout board nailed across it I says:

”Here's the ticket This hole's big enough for Jih if rench off the board”

Tom says: