We had Jim out of the chains in no time, and when Aunt Polly and Uncle Silas an…

THE old man was uptown again before breakfast, but couldn't get no track of Tom…

THE doctor was an old man; a very nice, kind-looking old man when I got him up.…

WE was feeling pretty good after breakfast, and took my canoe and went over t…

IN the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched…

MAKING them pens was a distressid tough job, and so was the saw; and Jim allowe…

THAT was all fixed. So then we went away and went to the rubbage-pile in the …

AS soon as we reckoned everybody was asleep that night we went down the light…

IT would be most an hour yet till breakfast, so we left and struck down into …

WE stopped talking, and got to thinking. By and by Tom says: "Looky here, H…

SO I started for town in the wagon, and when I was half-way I see a wagon comin…

WHEN I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny; the …

WE dasn't stop again at any town for days and days; kept right along down the…

WHEN they got aboard the king went for me, and shook me by the collar, and sa…

THEY was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking…

BY and by it was getting-up time. So I come down the ladder and started for dow…

I CREPT to their doors and listened; they was snoring. So I tiptoed along, an…

WELL, when they was all gone the king he asks Mary Jane how they was off for …

THE news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people teari…

NEXT day, towards night, we laid up under a little willow towhead out in the mi…