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? ? ? ? "Now my boy I hope you're good and hungry, because breakfast will be ready as soon as the sun's up, and we'll have a piping hot one, too- make yourself easy about that! I and the boys hoped you'd turn up and stop here last night."

? ? ? ? "I was awful scared," said Huck, "and I run. I took out when the pistols went off, and I didn't stop for three mile. I've come now becuz I wanted to know about it, you know; and I come before daylight becuz I didn't want to run acrost them devils, even if they was dead."

? ? ? ? "Well, poor chap, you do look as if you'd had a hard night of it- but there's a bed here for you when you've had your breakfast. No, they ain't dead, lad- we are sorry enough for that. You see we knew right where to put our hands on them, by your description; so we crept along on tip-toe till we got within fifteen feet of them- dark as a cellar that sumach path was- and just then I found I was going to sneeze.


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