Part 44 (1/2)
To else; and pretty soon he says:
”Oh, there's one thing I forgot Could you raise a flower here, do you reckon?”
”I doan know but maybe I could, Mars Toot no use f'r no flower, nohow, en she'd be a pow'ful sight o' trouble”
”Well, you try it, anyway So cat-tail-lookin' row in heah, Mars Tom, I reck'n, but she wouldn't be wuth half de trouble she'd coss”
”Don't you believe it We'll fetch you a little one and you plant it in the corner over there, and raise it And don't call it ht name when it's in a prison And you want to water it with your tears”
”Why, I got plenty spring water, Mars To water; you want to water it with your tears
It's the way they always do”
”Why, Mars Tom, I lay I kin raise one er de water whiles another man's a _start'n_ one wid tears”
”That ain't the idea You _got_ to do it with tears”
”She'll die on my han's, Mars Tom, she sholy will; kase I doan' skasely ever cry”
So Tom was stumped But he studied it over, and then said Ji the best he could with an onion He proer cabins and drop one, private, in Ji Jim said he would ”jis' 's soon have tobacker in his coffee;” and found sotheup the snakes and spiders and things, on top of all the other work he had to do on pens, and inscriptions, and journals, and things, which made it more trouble and worry and responsibility to be a prisoner than anything he ever undertook, that Tom most lost all patience with hiaudier chances than a prisoner ever had in the world to h to appreciate them, and they was just about wasted on him So Jim he was sorry, and said he wouldn't behave so no more, and then me and To ent up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best rat-hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest kind of ones; and then we took it and put it in a safe place under Aunt Sally's bed But while as gone for spiders little Thomas Franklin Benjamin Jefferson Elexander Phelps found it there, and opened the door of it to see if the rats would come out, and they did; and Aunt Sally she co on top of the bed raising Cain, and the rats was doing what they could to keep off the dull times for her So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and as asanother fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock
I never see a likelier lot of rats than what that first haul was
We got a splendid stock of sorted spiders, and bugs, and frogs, and caterpillars, and one thing or another; and we like to got a hornet's nest, but we didn't The faht up, but stayed with the as we could; because we alloe'd tire theot to tire us out, and they done it Then we got allycuht again, but couldn't set down convenient And so ent for the snakes, and grabbed a couple of dozen garters and house-snakes, and put the, and put it in our rooood honest day's work: and hungry??oh, no, I reckon not!
And there warn't a blessed snake up there ent back?we didn't half tie the sack, and they worked out somehow, and left But it didn't matter much, because they was still on the preain No, there warn't no real scarcity of snakes about the house for a considerable spell You'd see the froenerly landed in your plate, or down the back of your neck, and most of the time where you didn't want them Well, they was handsome and striped, and there warn't no harm in a million of them; but that never made no difference to Aunt Sally; she despised snakes, be the breed what they ht, and she couldn't stand them no way you could fix it; and every time one of them flopped down on her, it didn't , she would just lay that work down and light out I never see such a woet her to take a-holt of one of thes And if she turned over and found one in bed she would scramble out and lift a howl that you would think the house was afire She disturbed the old man so that he said he could most wish there hadn't ever been no snakes created Why, after every last snake had been gone clear out of the house for as much as a week Aunt Sally warn't over it yet; she warn't near over it; when she was setting thinking about so you could touch her on the back of her neck with a feather and she would jus It was very curious But Tom said all women was just so He said they wasevery time one of our snakes co to what she would do if we ever loaded up the place again with thes, because they didn't a; but I ot thes; and you never see a cabin as blithesoo for him Jim didn't like the spiders, and the spiders didn't like Jihty warm for hirindstone there warn't no room in bed for him, skasely; and when there was, a body couldn't sleep, it was so lively, and it was always lively, he said, because _they_ never all slept at one time, but took turn about, so when the snakes was asleep the rats was on deck, and when the rats turned in the snakes co under hi a circus over hiot up to hunt a new place the spiders would take a chance at hiot out this tiain, not for a salary
Well, by the end of three weeks everything was in pretty good shape
The shi+rt was sent in early, in a pie, and every tiet up and write a little in his journal whilst the ink was fresh; the pens was rindstone; the bed-leg was sawed in two, and we had et up the sawdust, and it give us ato die, but didn't It was the estible sawdust I ever see; and Toot all the work done now, at last; and as all pretty ed out, too, but mainly Jim The old man had wrote a couple of tiet their runaway nigger, but hadn't got no answer, because there warn't no such plantation; so he allowed he would advertise Jim in the St Louis and New Orleans papers; and when he ive me the cold shi+vers, and I see we hadn't no time to lose So Tom said, now for the nonnas to the people that so is up Sometimes it's done one way, so around that gives notice to the governor of the castle When Louis XVI was going to light out of the Tooleries, a servant-girl done it It's a very good way, and so is the nonnamous letters We'll use thee clothes with him, and she stays in, and he slides out in her clothes We'll do that, too”
”But looky here, To's up? Let them find it out for themselves?it's their lookout”
”Yes, I know; but you can't depend on them It's the way they've acted fro_ They're so confiding andat all So if we don't _give_ the to interfere with us, and so after all our hard work and trouble this escape 'll go off perfectly flat; won't a _to_ it”
”Well, as for me, Tom, that's the way I'd like”