Afeard! Tain t likely. Will you meow?
Yes and you meow back, if you get a chance. Last time, you kep me
a-meowing around till old Hays went to throwing rocks at me and says
Dern that cat! and so I hove a brick through his window but don t you
tell.
I won t. I couldn t meow that night, becuz auntie was watching me, but
I ll meow this time. Say what s that?
Nothing but a tick.
Where d you get him?
Out in the woods.
What ll you take for him?
I don t know. I don t want to sell him.
All right. It s a mighty small tick, anyway.
Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don t belong to them. I m
satisfied with it. It s a good enough tick for me.
Sho, there s ticks a plenty. I could have a thousand of em if I wanted
to.
Well, why don t you? Becuz you know mighty well you can t. This is a
pretty early tick, I reckon. It s the first one I ve seen this year.
Say, Huck I ll give you my tooth for him.
Less see it.
Tom got out a bit of paper and carefully unrolled it. Huckleberry viewed
it wistfully. The temptation was very strong. At last he said:
Is it genuwyne?
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