Part 44 (2/2)
”Shucks!” he says, and looked disgusted So I says:
”But I ain't going to oing to do about the servant-girl?”
”You'll be her You slide in, in the irl's frock”
”Why, To; because, of course, she prob'bly hain't got any but that one”
”I know; but you don't want it but fifteen minutes, to carry the nonnaht, then, I'll do it; but I could carry it just as handy in irl _then_, would you?”
”No, but there won't be nobody to see what I look like, _anyway_”
”That ain't got nothing to do with it The thing for us to do is just to do our _duty_, and not worry about whether anybody _sees_ us do it or not Hain't you got no principle at all?”
”All right, I ain't saying nothing; I'irl Who's Jiown from Aunt Sally”
”Well, then, you'll have to stay in the cabin when me and Jim leaves”
”Not much I'll stuff Jim's clothes full of straw and lay it on his bed to represent his own off of ether When a prisoner of style escapes it's called an evasion It's always called so when a king escapes, f'rinstance And the sa's son; it don't make no difference whether he's a natural one or an unnatural one”
So Tom he wrote the nonnaht, and put it on, and shoved it under the front door, the way To Keep a sharp lookout _Unknown_ _Friend_
Next night we stuck a picture, which Tom drawed in blood, of a skull and crossbones on the front door; and next night another one of a coffin on the back door I never see a family in such a sweat They couldn't a been worse scared if the place had a been full of ghosts laying for the through the air If a door banged, Aunt Sally she ju fell, she jumped and said ”ouch!” if you happened to touch her, when she warn't noticing, she done the same; she couldn't face noway and be satisfied, because she allowed there was so around sudden, and saying ”ouch,” and before she'd got two-thirds around she'd whirl back again, and say it again; and she was afraid to go to bed, but she dasn't set up So the thing orking very well, To work ht
So he said, now for the grand bulge! So the very next ot another letter ready, and ondering e better do with it, because we heard theer on watch at both doors all night Toger at the back door was asleep, and he stuck it in the back of his neck and come back This letter said:
Don't betrayof cutthroats fro to steal your runaway nigger to-night, and they have been trying to scare you so as you will stay in the house and not bother theion and wish to quit it and lead an honest life again, and will betray the helish design They will sneak down froht exact, with a false key, and go in the nigger's cabin to get him I aer; but stead of that I will _baa_ like a sheep soon as they get in and not blow at all; then whilst they are getting his chains loose, you slip there and lock the but just the way I a and raise whoop-jamboreehoo I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing _Unknown Friend_
CHAPTER XL
WE was feeling pretty good after breakfast, and took , with a lunch, and had a good tiot home late to supper, and found them in such a sweat and worry they didn't knohich end they was standing on, and ht off to bed the minute as done supper, and wouldn't tell us what the trouble was, and never let on a word about the new letter, but didn't need to, because we knowed as much about it as anybody did, and as soon as as half up stairs and her back was turned we slid for the cellar cupboard and loaded up a good lunch and took it up to our rooot up about half-past eleven, and To to start with the lunch, but says:
”Where's the butter?”
”I laid out a hunk of it,” I says, ”on a piece of a corn-pone”