Now less fetch the guns and things, said Huck.
No, Huck leave them there. They re just the tricks to have when we
go to robbing. We ll keep them there all the time, and we ll hold our
orgies there, too. It s an awful snug place for orgies.
What orgies?
I dono. But robbers always have orgies, and of course we ve got to
have them, too. Come along, Huck, we ve been in here a long time. It s
getting late, I reckon. I m hungry, too. We ll eat and smoke when we get
to the skiff.
They presently emerged into the clump of sumach bushes, looked warily
out, found the coast clear, and were soon lunching and smoking in the
skiff. As the sun dipped toward the horizon they pushed out and got
under way. Tom skimmed up the shore through the long twilight, chatting
cheerily with Huck, and landed shortly after dark.
Now, Huck, said Tom, we ll hide the money in the loft of the widow s
woodshed, and I ll come up in the morning and we ll count it and divide,
and then we ll hunt up a place out in the woods for it where it will be
safe. Just you lay quiet here and watch the stuff till I run and hook
Benny Taylor s little wagon; I won t be gone a minute.
He disappeared, and presently returned with the wagon, put the two small
sacks into it, threw some old rags on top of them, and started off,
dragging his cargo behind him. When the boys reached the Welshman s
house, they stopped to rest. Just as they were about to move on, the
Welshman stepped out and said:
Hallo, who s that?
Huck and Tom Sawyer.
Good! Come along with me, boys, you are keeping everybody waiting.
Here hurry up, trot ahead I ll haul the wagon for you. Why, it s not as
light as it might be. Got bricks in it? or old metal?
Old metal, said Tom.
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