Why, robbers, of course who d you reckon? Sunday-school
sup rintendents?
I don t know. If twas mine I wouldn t hide it; I d spend it and have a
good time.
So would I. But robbers don t do that way. They always hide it and
leave it there.
Don t they come after it any more?
No, they think they will, but they generally forget the marks, or else
they die. Anyway, it lays there a long time and gets rusty; and by and
by somebody finds an old yellow paper that tells how to find the marks a
paper that s got to be ciphered over about a week because it s mostly
signs and hy roglyphics.
Hyro which?
Hy roglyphics 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?
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