Say what is dead cats good for, Huck?
Good for? Cure warts with.
No! Is that so? I know something that s better.
I bet you don t. What is it?
Why, spunk-water.
Spunk-water! I wouldn t give a dern for spunk-water.
You wouldn t, wouldn t you? D you ever try it?
No, I hain t. But Bob Tanner did.
Who told you so!
Why, he told Jeff Thatcher, and Jeff told Johnny Baker, and Johnny
told Jim Hollis, and Jim told Ben Rogers, and Ben told a nigger, and the
nigger told me. There now!
Well, what of it? They ll all lie. Leastways all but the nigger. I
don t know _him_. But I never see a nigger that _wouldn t_ lie. Shucks!
Now you tell me how Bob Tanner done it, Huck.
Why, he took and dipped his hand in a rotten stump where the rain-water
was.
In the daytime?
Certainly.
With his face to the stump?
Yes. Least I reckon so.
Did he say anything?
I don t reckon he did. I don t know.
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