? ? ? ? "I know now!" exclaimed Tom; "somebody's drownded!"
? ? ? ? "That's it!" said Huck; "they done that last summer, when Bill Turner got drownded; they shoot a cannon over the water, and that makes him come up to the top. Yes, and they take loaves of bread and put quicksilver in 'em and set 'em afloat, and wherever there's anybody that's drownded, they'll float right there and stop."
? ? ? ? "Yes, I've heard about that," said Joe. "I wonder what makes the bread do that."
? ? ? ? "O it ain't the bread, so much," said Tom; "I reckon it's mostly what they say over it before they start it out."
? ? ? ? "But they don't say anything over it," said Huck. "I've seen 'em and they don't."
? ? ? ? "Well that's funny", said Tom. "But maybe they say it to themselves. Of course they do. Anybody might know that."
? ? ? ? The other boys agreed that there was reason in what Tom said, because an ignorant lump of bread, uninstructed by an incantation, could not be expected to act very intelligently when sent upon an errand of such gravity.
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