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If I hed n't 'a' be'n so old, I'd 'a' jumped in myself, for you can't drownd a Wiley, not without you tie nail-kags to their head an' feet an' drop 'em in the falls." Alcestis, who had neither brains, courage, nor experience, had, better still, the luck that follows the witless.
"Never a solitary word, so help me. What makes you ask?" "Well, I was afeard." "Why, Tom Sawyer, we wouldn't be alive two days if that got found out. YOU know that." Tom felt more comfortable. After a pause: "Huck, they couldn't anybody get you to tell, could they?" "Get me to tell? Why, if I wanted that half-breed devil to drownd me they could get me to tell. They ain't no different way."
"Soap an' towel in th' basket corner yonder!" said she, kneeling to puff the fire to a blaze as I descended the ladder. "Thank you, and where shall I find the necessary water?" "Outside in the brook enough to drownd you! And take your time, make a good job of it a clean body makes a clean mind sometimes. So scrub hard!" At this I came where she must meet my look.
"An' then goes for to make us go for to nigh drownd the pore, unfort'nate genelman in my own 'oss-trough, an' 'im now a-sneezin' an' a-groanin' an' a-swearin' in bed fit to break your 'eart. 'Ere be the desp'rit rogue as done the deed!" "Oh, is it!" repeated Black Whiskers, scowling.
His toes stuck out of his shoes, and he had n’t shaved for a long while, and his eyes was awful red and wild, like he had some sickness. He comes right up and begins to talk like he knows me already. He says: ‘The ponds in this country is done got so low a man could n’t drownd himself in one of ’em.’
“I told him nobody wanted to drownd themselves, but if we did n’t have rain soon we’d have to pump water for the cattle. “‘Oh, cattle,’ he says, ‘you’ll all take care of your cattle! Ain’t you got no beer here?’ I told him he’d have to go to the Bohemians for beer; the Norwegians did n’t have none when they thrashed. ‘My God!’ he says, ‘so it’s Norwegians now, is it? I thought this was Americy.’
But ole Maje NO, SIR! He goes miles out'n his way an' then when he gits home he sets down on the doorstep an' licks his feet fer half an hour er so before he begins to meow so's Eliza'll open the door an' let him in. "Ever' so often I got to tie a litter of kittens up in a meal-bag an' take 'em over to the river an' drownd 'em, an' I want to tell you it's a pleasure to do it.
Vot's more, they must come as far as this passage or else drownd theirselves in the River, vich vould save a lot o' trouble and expense, and s-sh!" He broke off abruptly and rose to his feet, and Barnahas saw that he held the brass-bound pistol in his hand.
"He'd looked glum again when I said two hundred Blackhanders didn't sound reasonable; but he cheers up at this and says: 'Oh, yes; lots of places they could drownd cricks and rivers and lakes and ponds and tanks any number of places they could fall into and never come up again. Say, he made that whole neighbourhood sound like Venice, Italy.
"Nary a blink, Mart'n why?" "I'm wondering what came of that same bundle " "Hove overboard belike, pal there's many a strange thing goes a-floating out to sea from hereabouts, Mart'n drownd me!" "Belike you're right!" says I. "Mart'n, Sir Rupert's ashore to meet her ladyship, so you'm free to come 'bove deck if so minded?" "Nay, I'll bide where I am, Godby."
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