? ? ? ? "Hyro- which?"
? ? ? ? "Hy'rogliphics- pictures and things, you know, that don't seem to mean anything."
? ? ? ? "Have you got one of them papers, Tom?"
? ? ? ? "No."
? ? ? ? "Well then, how you going to find the marks?"
? ? ? ? "I don't want any marks. They always bury it under a ha'nted house or on an island, or under a dead tree that's got one limb sticking out. Well, we've tried Jackson's Island a little, and we can try it again some time; and there's the old ha'nted house up the Still-House branch, and there's lots of dead-limb trees- dead loads of 'em."
? ? ? ? "Is it under all of them?"
? ? ? ? "How you talk! No!"
? ? ? ? "Then how you going to know which one to go for?"
? ? ? ? "Go for all of 'em!"
? ? ? ? "Why Tom, it'll take all summer."
? ? ? ? "Well, what of that? Suppose you find a brass pot with a hundred dollars in it, all rusty and gray, or a rotten chest full of di'monds.
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