![]() ![]() But we can't fool along, we got to rush we ain't got no time to spare. If we was prisoners it would, because then we'd have as many years as we wanted, and no hurry and we wouldn't get but a few minutes to dig, every day, while they was changing watches, and so our hands wouldn't get blistered, and we could keep it up right along, year in and year out, and do it right, and the way it ought to be done. "It ain't no use, Huck, it ain't agoing to work. But he sighed, and pretty soon he stopped digging, and then for a good little while I knowed he was thinking. ![]() ![]() "This ain't no thirty-seven year job, this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer." So we dug and dug, with the caseknives, till most midnight and then we was dog tired, and our hands was blistered, and yet you couldn't see we'd done anything, hardly. Tom said he was right behind Jim's bed now, and we'd dig it under it, and when we got through there couldn't nobody in the cabin ever know there was any hole there, because Jim's counterpin hung down most to the ground, and you'd have to raise it up and look under to see the hole. ![]() We cleared everything out of the way, about four or five foot along the middle of the bottom log. As soon as we reckoned everybody was asleep, that night, we went down the lightning-rod, and shut ourselves up in the lean-to, and got out our pile of fox-fire, and went to work. ![]()
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