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? ? ? ? "Well, you left it laid out, then- it ain't here."

? ? ? ? "We can get along without it," I says.

? ? ? ? "We can get along with it, too," he says; "just you slide down cellar and fetch it. And then mosey right down the lightning-rod and come along. I'll go and stuff the straw into Jim's clothes to represent his mother in disguise, and be ready to ba like a sheep and shove soon as you get there."

? ? ? ? So out he went, and down cellar went I. The hunk of butter, big as a person's fist, was where I had left it, so I took up the slab of corn-pone with it on, and blowed out my light, and started up stairs, very stealthy, and got up to the main floor all right, but here comes Aunt Sally with a candle, and I clapped the truck in my hat, and clapped my hat on my head, and the next second she see me; and she says:

? ? ? ? "You been down cellar?"

? ? ? ? "Yes'm."

? ? ? ? "What you been doing down there?"

? ? ? ? "Noth'n."

? ? ? ? "Noth'n!"

? ? ? ? "No'm.


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