Earnest, Huck just as earnest as ever I was in my life. Will you go in
there with me and help get it out?
I bet I will! I will if it s where we can blaze our way to it and not
get lost.
Huck, we can do that without the least little bit of trouble in the
world.
Good as wheat! What makes you think the money s
Huck, you just wait till we get in there. If we don t find it I ll
agree to give you my drum and every thing I ve got in the world. I will,
by jings.
All right it s a whiz. When do you say?
Right now, if you say it. Are you strong enough?
Is it far in the cave? I ben on my pins a little, three or four days,
now, but I can t walk more n a mile, Tom least I don t think I could.
It s about five mile into there the way anybody but me would go, Huck,
but there s a mighty short cut that they don t anybody but me know
about. Huck, I ll take you right to it in a skiff. I ll float the skiff
down there, and I ll pull it back again all by myself. You needn t ever
turn your hand over.
Less start right off, Tom.
All right. We want some bread and meat, and our pipes, and a little
bag or two, and two or three kite-strings, and some of these new-fangled
things they call lucifer matches. I tell you, many s the time I wished I
had some when I was in there before.
A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who
was absent, and got under way at once. When they were several miles
below Cave Hollow, Tom said:
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