Then he dropped down and went to sleep again; but what he had been saying give me the very
idea I wanted. I says to myself, I can fix it now so nobody won’t think of following me.
About twelve o’clock we turned out and went along up the bank. The river was coming up pretty
fast, and lots of driftwood going by on the rise. By and by along comes part of a log raft–nine logs
fast together. We went out with the skiff and towed it ashore. Then we had dinner. Anybody but
pap would a waited and seen the day through, so as to catch more stuff; but that warn’t pap’s style.
Nine logs was enough for one time; he must shove right over to town and sell. So he locked me in
and took the skiff, and started off towing the raft about half-past three. I judged he wouldn’t come
back that night. I waited till I reckoned he had got a good start; then I out with my saw, and went
to work on that log again. Before he was t’other side of the river I was out of the hole; him and his
raft was just a speck on the water away off yonder.
I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and
branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. I
took all the coffee and sugar there was,rs gold, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the
bucket and gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet
and the coffee-pot. I took fish-lines and matches and other things–everything that was worth a
cent. I cleaned out the place. I wanted an axe, but there wasn’t any, only the one out at the
woodpile,wow power leveling, and I knowed why I was going to leave that. I fetched out the gun,rappelz rupees, and now I was done.
I had wore the ground a good deal crawling out of the hole and dragging out so many things. So I
fixed that as good as I could from the outside by scattering dust on the place, which covered up the
smoothness and the sawdust. Then I fixed the piece of log back into its place, and put two rocks
under it and one against it to hold it there, for it was bent up at that place and didn’t quite touch
ground. If you stood four or five foot away and didn’t know it was sawed, you wouldn’t never
notice it; and besides,runescape money, this was the back of the cabin, and it warn’t likely anybody would go
fooling around there.
It was all grass clear to the canoe, so I hadn’t left a track. I followed around to see. I stood on the
bank and looked out over the river. All safe. So I took the gun and went up a piece into the woods,
and was hunting around for some birds when I see a wild pig; hogs soon went wild in them